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saving huge amounts of fossil fuel now used to refrigerate and ship produce from all over the world.

Dickson Despommier • The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century

Futures of regenerative scale and shared growth, that combat monoculture through a stronger, broader, and more rooted ecology of adaptation and co-evolution.

Michael Lewkowitz • Towards a Digital Pluriverse

Think gene drives, viruses, malware, and of course robotics. The more a technology by design requires human intervention, the less chance there is of losing control.

Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

This is about giving people tools to reshape their spaces to mirror their most rewarding social relationships. And if enough people do this it will start to reshape cities themselves.

Gillian Morris • Introducing Supernuclear: A guide to Coliving

it was the stories underneath our society that gave rise to all of this, and then to see that we do indeed have the power to shape and change these stories.

Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us

Modernism’s methodologies of mapping, designing, planning, for controlling and changing deeply complex systems may not be the answer to the challenges we face. Maybe we need to go underground — working in networked, symbiotic companionships, like mycelial arrangements, to generate infinite micro-revolutions.

Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics

One of the fundamental challenges this book has identified is that we need to be able to imagine positive, feasible, delightful versions of the future before we can create them. Not utopias, but futures where things turned out OK.

Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want

Patrick Geddes, founder of environmental sociology and much else, described a more ideal city or ‘eutopia’ as lying ‘in the city around us; and it must be planned and realized [with] us as its citizens—each a citizen of both the actual and ideal city seen increasingly as one.’9 In his architectural designs for the city of Edinburgh, for example, he

Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible

‘we are at a critical juncture in human history…natural disasters might cause governments to collapse’.