Imagining 2040 - Pathways to Flourishing Futures
This series explores how public imagination could help facilitate citizen-led pathways toward flourishing futures. Imaginative vision once powered major human wellbeing reforms. But in the face of today’s urgent challenges we now have a public imagination deficit. We need more people to think more imaginatively about better futures and how to achieve them. So join our uplifting guest conversations framed by imaginative questioning. Hear how we can use our imaginations to help co-create futures which could be climate safer, properly nature protected, socially supportive and economically fair.
Episodes
GUEST: Dr. Michelle Maloney national convenor of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA). Michelle trained in political science, history and law. See Michelle’s AELA and professional web page links for more details.
Nature-based governance and bioregionalism are twovisionary, system-level approaches to ecological land management explored in this episode.
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AN OVERVIEW OF THE IMAGINATIVE FUTURES IDEAS TO BE PRESENTED ACROSS THE SERIES
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THREE CORE IMAGINATIVE EXERCISES IN THE SERIES – 12.13
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How could we plan development differently? How could we ensure that urban and regional development truly serves people and the planet? One major shift could lie in how we involve citizens—not just in consultations, but in shaping decisions from the ground up. Can we, for instance, imagine future planning processes in which communities co-design solutions using the same tools as experts—like real-time data visualisation, interactive...
In this episode my guest is Dr Andrew Joyce, Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Social Impact at Swinburne University of Technology. In our discussion we delve into how systems thinking, social movements, and policy innovation could come together to spark transformative change—locally, nationally, and globally.
Our core discussion focussed on past research conducted by Dr Joyce and colleagues which found that not all policy ...
My guest in this episode is Dr Mark Diesendorf, Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Humanities & Languages, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW Sydney.
During our discussion, Dr Diesendorf outlines how we could weaken state capture of governments and institutions by vested interests - and push for a fairer society through building a mass movement and alliances; and implementing visionary policies, such as t...
In this episode we imagine some opportunities for a future strengthening of the collaboration between art, science, and nature connectedness. How might the increased power of storytelling which emerges help us move toward achieving a climate safer, properly nature protected, socially fairer and genuinely more prosperous future? A flourishing future which leaves no-one behind.?
I’m joined by two great guests to help explore this futu...
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