From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want

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He is an Ashoka Fellow, has spoken at TED Global and at several TEDx events, and appeared in the French film phenomenon ‘ Demain‘. It allows us to “look at things as if they could be otherwise”, and Hopkins makes a compelling case for making more time for imagination in school, in work, in our personal lives and in politics. Do you have a project ready to go, supporting Transition activity in your community under the shadow of Covid-19? You may have seen or responded to the surveys we carried out last year with British groups that informed this funding bid. People planted fruit and nut trees in public spaces, grew food at the train station, and connected neighbours who wanted to grow food with neighbours who had unused garden space.

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It begins with a story ‘of how things turned out okay’, outlines the problem, and then sets about imagining things differently. Rob makes a compelling case for the urgent need to re-ignite and re-awaken our imagination to solve our most dire challenges of today. All of these are described with a real sense of curiosity and discovery, as if Hopkins is delighted to have found all these examples of imagination and can’t wait to share them. What Is delved into what is happening right now during the pandemic, what it has uncovered and taught us, and what inspiring responses Transition groups and collaborators have already developed. Rob Hopkins is a cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network, and the author of From What Is to What If?He demonstrates the transformative power of imagination in all areas of our lives and the dangers of its neglect, especially in the education of our children. These went on to look at what Transition initiatives like yours are doing, and how Transition work is adapting during the global pandemic. I have just met someone who is making an original building near his parents old stone home and barn.

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As ‘Transition Town Totnes’, we began asking these ‘what-if’ questions, and things started unfolding apace in our town. Later in the course of the project we will introduce you to a general version of the visioning exercise that can be used for wider community engagement.Sadly, it seems far easier to imagine almost any dystopian scenario than the possibility that we might actually still have the competence to act, to create something else, to dig ourselves out of the many holes of our own making. As part of a plan for helping an autonomous Transition Hub to emerge in England and Wales we were supported by the The National Lottery Community Fund to develop a 4 year project which we hoped to have been able to start delivering in Great Britain from July of this year. In 2012, he was voted one of the Independent’s top 100 environmentalists and was on Nesta and the Observer’s list of Britain’s 50 New Radicals. It’s given him a rich pool of examples and people to draw on for his latest book, From what is to what if – Unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want.