Emerging Futures at JRF - Two Years In, the Story So Far

When we create safe spaces, time away from screens, ‘Yes, and’ spaces, working with other people over tasks that facilitate connection and craft a narrative that offers a hopeful take on the future, the world can start to come back into focus.

‘Engaging with the future … imagining that we are willing to author it together as opposed to having it given to us, is important. And “radical”’ is to say that we should be ambitious and slightly crazy and idiosyncratic about how we think that future could be,’ he told me. ‘It shouldn’t just be a future imagined by politicians, technologists and p

In tandem with this inch-wide starting point, Immy simultaneously established the mile-deep aspect, in the form of the Re Festival. This six-day online ideas festival was held in the first weeks of the pandemic, and saw an array of the world’s most original thinkers and doers invited to share their ideas and insights at the very beginning of CIVIC

We need to become better storytellers in such a way that we can, through a variety of media, give people a visceral sense of what a positive future would sound, taste, feel and look like. We need to create stories where the kind of future we want to see becomes commonplace, everyday. We need to tell stories with an underlying sense that the mere te