© 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 October 2019. We’re awash with cortisol as a society. She said: “You could get out of bed and think, ‘I have no idea what’s going to happen today, but I think it might be something quite nice. What’s your dream for this book’s impact? And as many of us have found during the COVID-19 lockdown, with some creativity and thought, even online places can do an amazing job of stimulating the imagination. Whether it is the more confrontational activism demonstrated by groups like Extinction Rebellion and Black Lives Matter, or grassroots organising and working to build the alternative, we are all trying to understand how to be the most effective activists we can possibly be. A voice full of kindness, optimism, brightness, humor, and imagination. This is then done about three times so you’ve spoken with three people answering three different questions. "People like Rob Hopkins give us the courage to move forward. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 November 2019. Ideal for bushcraft, camping, picnics and outdoor living. Then, through a carefully facilitated sequence of exercises, they end up building, in 3D, using cardboard, string, bamboo canes, sticky tape and pens, a living, breathing settlement in which they then trade, celebrate, talk, share, plan, eat, connect. Then, through a carefully facilitated sequence of exercises, they end up building, in 3D, using cardboard, string, bamboo canes, sticky tape and pens, a living, breathing settlement in which they then trade, celebrate, talk, share, plan, eat, connect. A set of traditional Scandinavian tableware made from largely recycled materials which is designed for use outdoors and blends rather than clashes with natural surroundings. in France and Liège in Belgium. Badass democracy: reclaiming the public commons, is for the mind and soul of an individual, so, is for the mind and soul of a community. For those who feel a bit glum and disempowered about some of the earth's problems, this book is a tremendous antidote. You’ll come away from this book feeling like you can start today in your own community to do something that’ll not only make a difference, but also give your own life more meaning. Underpinning this is the belief, as set out in ‘From What Is to What If’ that we are living in a time of imaginative decline at the very time in history when we need to be at our most imaginative. This is despite the failure of governments to act quickly enough and especially at a grass roost level where individuals can make a difference. Whether in Paris or in Totnes, initiatives are being launched and are encouraging us to shift from 'why not' to 'how' and from 'how ' to 'when.' The idea of pacts were inspired by the amazing work of the. It feels to us that it could be used just as effectively over a range of scales, from small community groups to organisations, to movements to institutions, to the basis of a national imagination act. Doughnut Economics is rapidly moving from the fringe to the mainstream. It speaks to the powerful role of hands-on making, and of the analogue – real things made with our hands – and how important it is to not see this as a challenge where everything can be done digitally. that we can take a place people know well and pass every day, and give it a makeover so that it becomes an immersive, living, breathing expression of what a low carbon, more just and equal future would be like to actually live in. Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. Imagination Sundial by Rob Shorter is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. We recognise the impacts of colonisation, in that colonisation and exclusion based on race, gender, class or sexuality determine whose imagination actually gets to shape and determine the future of a particular place. Rob Hopkins a fondé il y a quinze ans à Totnes (8500 habitants), en Grande-Bretagne, le mouvement des «Villes en transition», qui a aujourd’hui essaimé dans le monde entier. These places can also be natural places, and the ability of such places to stimulate the imagination as well as to generate awe, in turn shown to increase empathy, generosity and pro-social behaviour, has been well documented. Guardian reports: “The vision came from Daniel Raven-Ellison, a geography teacher and devoted walker, who calculated that 49.5% of London was already green and blue space. The church also became home to many Transition activities such as their popular Repair Café. But as Transition movement cofounder Rob Hopkins tells us, there is plenty of evidence that things can change, and cultures can change, rapidly, dramatically, and unexpectedly—for the better. And it’s this noticing that helps you intervene and take action on any unhelpful thoughts, instead reminding yourself of the various positive affirmations you have written for yourself. ) If imagination is, as John Dewey defined it, “the ability to see things as if they could be otherwise”, and given that we need to see, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change put it, “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society”. Why the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill could lead to a revolution of the imagination. It can be a very powerful exercise for giving people a lived experience of how the future could be. Milling Around is an activity for starting a workshop where you’re invited to mill around a room in between each other, noticing who’s there with you. Your email address will not be published. The material on this website is copyright 2015. In fact, I feel like it is such a vitally important development that I want to use this article to urge you to get behind it, while also offering a rather different perspective on why I feel it matters so much. As Adrienne Maree Brown puts it: “We are living in the ancestral imagination of others, with their longing for safety and abundance, a longing that didn’t include us”. Biodiversity loss. It’s finally here to buy - Rob Hopkins’ From “What Is” to “What If”: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want.As the piece below will show, we’ve been trailing and anticipating this book for ages now. Two minutes silence is taken to allow those present to contemplate not only the next seven generations of human life, but all of interconnected life on earth that we must act in awareness of. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Pacts feel important because without them, or something like them, we are nurturing and inviting the imagination of people and of communities, but then not meeting them halfway. But we’d love to hear from you. Here is my write-up of the tour, containing photos, links, videos, and all sorts of odd memories from a hectic but inspirational couple of weeks. The movement must gain momentum and expand. What if we approached climate change or other large social and environmental conundrums with an unfettered playful imagination? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. i would love to hear a podcast episode going deep into this sundial…. --Michael Mann, distinguished professor, Pennsylvania State University; coauthor of The Madhouse Effect, "Reading this book is like listening to the voice of Rob Hopkins. Here are a few examples of wonderful place-making: Urban agriculture projects such as Prinzessinnengarten in Berlin, now one of the city’s main tourist attractions, are a good example of this, as is the work of Pre Saint Gervais en Transition in Paris who are campaigning for the creation of an ‘urban forest’ in their neighbourhood. I asked Lucy Neal, an artist and Transition activist, for her thoughts on this. They pointed him to Dawn Chorus Day, which started in Birmingham in the 80s, and is now on the first Sunday in May each year. As the piece below will show, we’ve been trailing and anticipating this book for ages now. A much appreciated light in these dark days. As Dr Wendy Suzuki. See tags and searches on cities, gardens, architecture, and streets. It was really a journey of discovery and connection. We suggest that it also involves a deliberate process of making space within our own lives for something to emerge, and we recognise that imagination, to a degree, is a function of privilege, in that it is very hard to live an imaginative life when your basic needs aren’t met and when you are stressed or in trauma. Rob Hopkins, activist and writer on environmental issues for Transition Network, explores why imagination matters. It’s also about how we feel, to participate when we gather together and give ourselves. It’s accessible, well-researched, passionate and hugely important to addressing the climate crisis both practically and theoretically. I’ll go ’round the corner and have a look.’ There would be joy in the air, and joy is very radical…because it connects us all to life, and life is enthusiastic for life.”. I am taking his question of what if into so much of my thinking now. The charity’s approach could easily be copied just about anywhere”. I hope it will kickstart conversations and help people reevaluate education and their relationship to technology and their relationship to the future. We do have the capability to effect dramatic change, Hopkins argues, but we’re failing because we’ve largely allowed our most critical tool to languish: human imagination. In Bologna, Italy, they have a Civic Imagination Office, which sits between the administration and the people and basically works like a Transition group, firing up people’s imaginations with possibilities and ideas and then getting alongside them and helping their ideas happen. Try again. takes us on an inspiring and urgent tour of the people and communities around the world that are reimagining the present to create more hopeful and sustainable futures for us all." I’m wondering how education / critical thinking is covered, please? This is an example of biophilia - love of nature - and its reviving effects. In quite an immediate but friendly way I found the words of Rob Hopkins changing the way I was looking at intractable problems. I was only yesterday contemplating how many things (tech etc) from yesteryear movies, have actually come to fruition, and I got to worrying about how many “darker” type movies are predominating. Next, Rob celebrates the Bristol community interest company called Playing Out, which encourages neighbourhoods to set up street play zones. For a long time we tended to look the other way, but now, being on the edge of the cliff forces us to understand that we must act urgently. It invites people to use their imagination with all of its senses to explore what such a future would look like, feel like, smell like, sound like. What set you on this journey to rediscover imagination? Yes, people want to know, “How do you measure imagination?” Is it possible to say Jill has an imagination score of 8.3 and Rob has one of 6.7, so Jill wins? We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. Absolutely! We also recognise that austerity can be seen as an attack on a population’s ability to live richly imaginative lives. What do we need to do this? There’s something slipping through our fingers here…and when you point it out, it really resonates with people. I recently appeared on the ‘Green Dreamer’ podcast discussing imagination, Transition, and ideas from ‘From What Is to What If’. --Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics, "When it comes to tackling climate change or the numerous other threats to our global environment, the greatest challenge we face today may be the belief that the damage is beyond the point of repair, that we lack agency in addressing the problem, for that leads us down the same path as outright denial--a path of inaction. In Los Angeles, Transition Pasadena worked with the local Throop Unitarian Church to transform their sunbaked landscaping using xeriscaping into a beautiful drought-resistant garden, and found that wedding bookings at the church increased hugely as it was now a far better backdrop for wedding photos! We believe that this decline is first and foremost underpinned by the rise in trauma, stress, anxiety and depression which, neuroscientists have shown, cause a reduction in the hippocampus, the part of the brain most implicated in imagination. He is a keen gardener, a founder of New Lion Brewery in Totnes, and a director of Totnes Community Development Society, the group behind Atmos Totnes, an ambitious, community-led development project. Any organisation deciding to undertake work around nurturing imagination must design into the process a willingness and an openness to turn ideas that emerge from the imagination process into a reality via the use of pacts. These are places to dwell and enjoy without having to buy or pay anything. And that spirit is precisely what we need to build a better future and to reconnect with each other and the better part of ourselves. "Towns and cities have already begun transition. --Sir Quentin Blake, "Rob Hopkins has long been a leader in imagining how we could remake our societies for the benefit of nature and humankind. You have to get up at 4am, and when Rob did so “it was magical. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Choose delivery method and buy Kindle Books. That’s what brought me to Dundee, Scotland, in 2018 to visit a project called Art Angel. In these times of deep division and deeper despair, if there is a consensus about anything in the world, it is that the future is going to be awful. , then nurturing the capacity, across a population, to have the most resilient and dynamic imagination possible is vital. As defined by social reformer John Dewey, imagination is the ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise. Tooting Transition Towns network transformed a turning circle on Tooting Broadway into a village green for the day - the Tooting Twirl. When that is the case, we need imagination more than we need innovation. You have the right to view these pages and where applicable, to copy these pages and any images to a cache for reference by yourself only at a later date. Our imagination is actually shot to bits. If there’s any role that we need to be playing, it’s to create these spaces of safety and hope. The project has generated other initiation like a mobile “Makory” touring the area, and an annual Maker Faire ind Darby. --Cyril Dion, writer, filmmaker, and producer of the film Tomorrow. This can happen through. It speaks to the powerful role of hands-on making, and of the analogue – real things made with our hands – and how important it is to not see this as a challenge where everything can be done digitally. Please try again. We deeply agree with Rob that imagination and creativity is essential for communities to respond actively to the major crises in our system, climate breakdown and automation. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Please click the link in it to confirm your subscription. Quoted from the Guardian: “They had started 21 cooperatives and raised €5m. The question we explore in this episode is ‘What if imagination were a universal right?’ My guests to explore this are Ariane Conrad, writer, activist and ‘book doula’ (editorial consultant and collaborative author) who tends to collaborate with authors who defend the rights of people and planet, and Dr. Masum Momaya who has worked at the intersection of arts, culture, social justice and human rights for more than 20 years as an educator, museum curator, writer and activist. The project’s ‘trainees’, as they are called, spend six-months developing skills in growing, landscaping, pottery, woodwork, construction and design, and cook and eat together. http://www.seedfestival.co.uk/, Designing Regenerative Cultures with Looby Macnamara. Practices are the things we can do together that take us out of our rational thinking minds into something altogether different, breaking down our internal constraints and societal norms to open up a greater sense of what is possible. Locals were enlisted to physically prototype the entire museum - which helped them get funding. We can have good days and bad days. is the name for a flame that is lit at the. The idea of pacts were inspired by the amazing work of the Civic Imagination Office in Bologna, Italy, who work with communities across the city through 6 ‘labs’, using visioning tools and activities to come up with a diversity of ideas for the future of the city. Set in Greece, a beautiful friendship is born from a love of gardening. It distils insights from both of our work and thinking in a form whose usefulness and relevance will be determined by your experience of it, and how helpful you find it in your own work. For more about Rob Hopkins and his latest book 'From What Is to What If' visit https://www.robhopkins.net, Filmed at Hawkwood’s Seed Festival in Stroud, which celebrates courageous climate leadership, creative expression and innovation in partnership with our natural world. We have also covered Rob’s fantastic notion on this blog - quoting Bologna’s Office of Civic Imagination which runs six city labs that help “understand how citizens and government can work together”. Everyone plays a part in the pact. But it’s also zapping your creativity”. Underpinning this is the belief, as set out in ‘, This decline has been noted by various researchers, and its implications are profound but rarely discussed. But we can ask what it might look like to live in a more imaginative world. The fracturing of ecosystems and communities beyond, it seems, repair. What mental and emotional space is for the mind and soul of an individual, so place is for the mind and soul of a community. So many of those who listen to this podcast are trying, in one way or another, to bring about change in the world. Moments where we’re more imaginative and moments where we struggle. Action instills belief, and belief inspires further action, and a great way to bring about action is with pacts. ). The engaging and well researched examples Rob Hopkins shares show us that when we recognise and get round the various ways the system can stifle our inbuilt natural imagination, extraordinary things flourish. Indeed Gray’s been interviewed for Rob’s book. Sometimes these places can be mobile, such as Encounters Arts’ ‘Chrysalis’, a mobile ‘cabinet of curiosities’, designed specifically to evoke the curiosity and imagination of whichever community it visits. And it’s this noticing that helps you intervene and take action on any unhelpful thoughts, instead reminding yourself of the various positive affirmations you have written for yourself. Whilst finishing his Masters at Schumacher College and researching his dissertation last spring, Rob Shorter came to stay with my family as our lodger. So, what would happen if we had leaders who put the cultivation of imagination to the front? For more about Rob Hopkins and his latest book 'From What Is to What If' visit. Among the most important are our unique powers of imagination. We have many of the solutions yet we still do not act. , people’s assembly or any other gathering of people that will be making decisions that could impact the future. It feels to us that it could be used just as effectively over a range of scales, from small community groups to organisations, to movements to institutions, to the basis of a national imagination act. Places that are welcoming and inviting to a rich diversity of people. As Dr Wendy Suzuki put it recently, “long-term stress is literally killing the cells in your hippocampus that contribute to the deterioration of your memory. An interview with Rob Hopkins by Jill Kiedaisch (Chelsea Green Publishing), From What Is to What If author Rob Hopkins is cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network and author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff, The Transition Handbook, and The Transition Companion. is where the magic really happens. Besides organising a free National Park City festival, it is now ‘the mayor’s ambition’ to reach at least 50% and to ‘increase tree canopy cover by 10%’ by 2050”. It would be wonderful if we could have some eye-catching graphics such as those striking images of a before and after street in the Netherlands or anything else from Rob’s great presentation about the book. The intention is not to filter anything and through this you begin to notice what might otherwise go unnoticed. Everyone plays a part in the pact. The educationalist Peter Gray goes as far as identifying “nature-deficit disorder” in children. I drew some comfort from realising that most children’s movies still carry a message of hope, wonder and happy outcomes. We’re suffering from pre-traumatic stress disorder—a constant background state of anxiety. ’ about the art of asking a good What If question, as well as examples from around the world. The aim of the Sundial is to act as a heuristic or design tool for how we might set out, intentionally and skilfully, to rebuild the imaginative capacity of people, organisations or nations. He has seen it happen around the world and in his own town of Totnes, England, where the community is becoming its own housing developer, energy company, enterprise incubator, and local food network—with cascading benefits to the community that extend far beyond the projects themselves. --Scott Barry Kaufman, psychologist, Columbia University; coauthor of Wired to Create, "I couldn't stop reading this book, and ideas just wouldn't stop popping into my head. This can happen through play, through making and through stories. Some reflections on the difference between ‘Yes, but’ and ‘Yes, and’, Keeping one step ahead of COVID in Luxembourg and France. invites residents who live around a shared intersection to come together to imagine what they want their street to look like, then collectively paint the road surface. This item has a maximum order quantity limit. As we start, hopefully, to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately affected older people, many people have experienced an end to their lives that was lonely and traumatic. We argue that mastering the art of asking good What If questions is something that is vital to skilful strategies for the next 10 years. He says, “the opportunity boosted my imagination……my writing flowed easier. Action instills belief, and belief inspires further action, and a great way to bring about action is with, . A good practice creates bridges between the real and imagined, the known and unknown, inviting us into the liminal space where things begin to shift. is an activity developed by Encounters Arts in association with Transition Network, where a group of people, having imagined themselves travelling forward to a 2030 where the UK had successfully become a zero carbon, fairer, more equal and biodiverse society, then imagine what they would be doing in such a future, what their role would be (described in more detail. In this episode we are exploring a question sent in by subscriber Joy Cherkaoui.
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