Futures Thinking

"Political violence behaves like other self-organizing natural phenomena—wildfires, earthquakes, or epidemics. "

"The only way to relegate yesterday’s news to the dustbin of history is to rebel today by re-imagining tomorrow."

We don't spend much time imagining all the possibilities the future holds.

“If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.”

Yes, we are still on a trajectory of overshooting and potential collapse, but...

Business as usual is clearly failing us. We need completely different visions of futures that work.

"Let's tell the stories that allow us to fall in love with how that future could be."

Learning to cultivate the hidden strengths of people and societies

“Predicting doom in difficult times may have more to with the sorrow and depression of the moment than with any real insight into future possibilities."

'The question isn’t whether we can imagine a better future—it’s whether we can afford not to.'

What truly matters in shaping our collective destiny?

Civilizations come and go. Civilization continues.

'We hope to help each other be good ancestors. We hope to preserve possibilities for the future.'

Co-imagination may be a way for people to co-create a shared understanding of alternative futures.

How the aesthetic, utopian yet pragmatic movement of Solarpunk reimagines a future without a climate catastrophe