what if

‘It is one thing to say ‘Another World Is Possible.’ It’s another thing to experience it, however momentarily.’

What would it look like if rather than protesting about the things that are wrong, dysfunctional and broken, we set out to give ourselves what futurist Stuart Candy calls ‘visceral tastes’ of the future, experiences of a positive, delightful future, that transform our sense of what’s possible the way The Sultan’s Elephant did?

There are a growing number of school strikes, kids walking out and demanding governments take climate change seriously. A new spirit of rebellion is rising. How would it be if each of those demonstrations, actions, strikes, always included some kind of manifestation of the future they want to see? Gardens, visual projections onto buildings, art

‘People know something’s wrong,’ Roberts said. ‘They don’t necessarily know how to articulate, though, what the problem is.’ Better Block helps, he argues, by working quickly and by having a deadline. He sees Better Block’s work as ‘a combination of an urban planning exercise meets a block party’.

What if we could mobilise hundreds of people to transform a place into a physical manifestation of their idea of a future? If people woke up to find their local train station or local museum transformed into a renewable energy power station, an orchard, an edible food garden, a pop-up for local entrepreneurs, a play space, a welcome centre for