on better futures
by Keely Adler · updated 2mo ago
on better futures
‘It is one thing to say ‘Another World Is Possible.’ It’s another thing to experience it, however momentarily.’
from From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want by Rob Hopkins
Keely Adler added 2mo ago
- I want to defend and buoy hope – it’s a fragile, quirky thing, but it has the power to help us act in the face of finitude
Hope is vitalising. When it pulses, we aspire toward better futures and conspire with what we have and have been. In its absence, we often grow listless, even court despair. I thus want to defend hope, underscore what we gain i... See morefrom Our days are both rough and slippery. Hope brings traction | Psyche Ideas by John Lysaker
Keely Adler added 2mo ago
- “Our ability to dream of something different, to name longing, to articulate a vision and commit to it, directly correlates to the likelihood that we will experience it, that it will be realized. It's the way we bring about change for ourselves, and for the world. When we are besieged by visions that do not match our longing, some of which are sini... See more
from Tweet by @CassieRobinson@mastodon.social
Keely Adler added 3mo ago
- EU Policy Lab's Futures Garden, which aims to support policymakers in envisioning and working with alternative transformational futures to design more future-fit policies in co-creation with its citizens
from INWARDS - N O R M A L S
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
We’ve been told that doing “good work” will lead to economic success, but really, it might just be the other way around. With the help of large collective organising, worker-driven structures, and knowledge-sharing, we can accomplish better work conditions and more beautiful, more fulfilling creative work.”
from Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #82 by Creative Destruction
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
We define a shift as social, political, economic and/or cultural transformation. From our perspective, we want shifts in the direction of ecological resilience and social equity, as an imperative. We believe that shifts can emerge from collective “aha” moments when social movements awaken the popular imagination to new possibilities and spark socia
... See morefrom Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
From mythmaking to legal treaties to weaving to movement building, what knits these various examples together is their avoidance of single solutions to complex problems, instead enabling a pursuit of multiple different actions and wider systemic changes with long term, positive transformations
from Radical Design for a World in Crisis by Anab Jain
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
How do we spot ‘glimmers’ of the futures we all dream of? What forms of knowledge, and whose voices do we need to be attuned to, to ensure we are seeing these possibilities for what they are?
from Emerging Futures: An Update by JRF
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
Elsewhere, while COVID-19 may have abated from peak hellish weirdness, the narratives that collapsed then have not been put back together again
from The Laws of Lorecore by ZORA ZINE
Keely Adler added 4mo ago