Future Us

What If? from The Economist. You've seen the news, now discover the story.

In the late 2019, a new illness was found in Wuhan, and, a few months later, the entire world, more or less, was in lockdown. It wasn’t a blip or an anomaly or an oddity. It was a turning point. A…

IMPACT asks players to think like futurists–anticipating change, responding to unforeseen events, and living with uncertainty.

Very often, the people who get to tell the most plausible and the most listened to stories about the future — the people who get to set the tone and the parameters for others’ expectations — are the…

By Eunji Kang and Eunsoo Lee (Dark Matter Labs), Tshering Wangmo, Tshoki Zangmo and Bishnu Chettri (UNDP Bhutan) Bhutan, a country of roughly 760,000 people and one of the very few carbon-negative…

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When Children England asked young people to lead their own inquiry into how to create a welfare state that’s fair for children, they focused on local community-led solutions. Chloe Darlington looks at their ideas, from community health hubs to school community days.

In the first blog of the Collecting Real Utopias series, Malaika introduces the motivations and ideas behind the series, and offers a taster of what’s to come. Over the coming months, Malaika Cunningham, Practice Researcher at Artsadmin, will be writing a monthly blog series

Isthmus — Abby+Alice

The concept of the future is re-emerging as an urgent topic on the academic agenda. In this article, we focus on the ‘politics of the future’: the social proces...

A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it.

Every day we take steps which carry our attitudes and assumptions about the future. Our steps can be fearful and cautious. They can also be bold leaps made out of clear-eyed hope and raw necessity…

This blog is part of a partnership exploring practical tools for a new type of organising with the purpose of creating ‘public good’. In it we set out a couple dominant assumptions and the impact we…

More people live in cities than not, so it’s time they became more environmentally sound. Fab City aims to build a sustainable new world – collectively.

01/11/2021 - Anyone concerned about our future climate will soon be able to contribute to understanding the social dynamics of climate change by taking part in a “citizen science” experiment. In a donation-funded online simulation currently being developed by the non-profit company SCIARA in cooperation with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), users can playfully explore virtual climate futures, make decisions, and see the consequences. Based on the players' behavior…