“So novelty is imperious: it demands the remaking of the world according to its own standards.”
— Claeys, Utopianism for a Dying Planet, 366 #Change #Innovation #FutureOfSociety #CultureAndSociety
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How citizens of Melbourne are shaping climate resilient futures - Centre for Public Impact In Melbourne’s high-rises, can strangers become neighbours in the face of climate change? Explore how Rising Resilience is building community-driven climate futures.

➡️New initiative alert: Rising Resilience, a collaboration between CPI, Humanise This, and the @cityofmelbourne, funded by CPI’s Climate Change Initiative (CCI).

👫Could #socialimagination serve as a foundation for climate resilience?

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💡 What if the public sector led with creativity, care & courage? That’s the promise of #SocialImagination.

Join us on June 5th for Session 1 of our new series with ThirdStory—featuring Ruth Kennedy & Hannah McDowell.

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Designing Joint Answers for Broken Cities. About Tenkuä, the Participatory Foresight and Planning Experience * Journal of Futures Studies Article Download PDF Karla Paniagua1, Paulina Cornejo2,* 1Head of Futures Studies, Centro de diseño y comunicacion, Mexico City 2Head of Social Design , Centro de diseño y comunicacion, Mexico City Ab...

jfsdigital.org/articles-and... What is Tenkuä, the experience in #participatoryfutures and #foresight game, designed to enhance #socialimagination? How has this experience changed over the years? What playful attributes can be identified in #Tenkuä?

these pervasive norms and beliefs calcify into values that no longer work for us, or prevent us from assuming new ways of being and behaving that will work better for our societies as they evolve and change. They create cultures of exclusion and derision, and bolster prejudices and injustices. Our institutions fail us when they entrench our beliefs and behaviors to the extent that we cannot only not change, we cannot even imagine change.

Cynthia Rayner & François Bonnici on the role of institutions in achieving (or stunting) societal progress:

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