Why the future of Planning is Opera, Only Fans, God, and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
Matt Waksmancreative.salon
Why the future of Planning is Opera, Only Fans, God, and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
All my experience tells me that such a level of fatalism isn’t realistic; we can, up to a point, design and choose the society we wish to live in. Besides, there have been few moments in history when we have needed creativity more—to work out how to get to net zero carbon emissions and avert climate change; how to cope with ageing populations; how
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
A more creative alternative is the ‘backcasting’ method proposed by John Robinson and offered as an alternative to forecasting. This encourages starting with a vision of the future and then projecting backwards to the steps needed in the present to achieve it. This is useful as a prompt—policymaking is always better if it works backwards from desir
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
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Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Old attitudes and ideas simply aren’t adequate to help us navigate what lies ahead. And pervasive gloom about the future risks being self-fulfilling.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
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emblematic ideas to take forward could include: * resilient and diverse communities as essential foundations; * the value of trust in government and civic institutions; * recognising the agility and capability latent within the public sector; * and the enormous value of inefficiency and redundancy in systems; * an understanding that there are essen... See more
Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism
Yes. Is the future going to break our hearts? Yes. But around the margins, there is much we could do — on both the resistance and resilience fronts — and it is essential that we do it. Not just for society and the future, but for ourselves. Because only by getting on that bicycle and riding it, can we find our own balance.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
The longer I do this work, the more I understand that we need to build a stronger account of the moment we are in: a story of decline and new opportunities; of deep crisis and mind-bending possibilities. Most importantly, a time to act from hope rather than sink into fatalism. We need to confront and reckon with the existing order; to reveal it for... See more