People
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Futures in Draft is a platform for stories that inspire people and movements to imagine and build futures that transform our reality.
This space includes a variety of content, from personal essays to reading lists, that explore how we can create more space for equity, sustainability, and liberation for all.
For any terms that might be new, please head to our glossary to discover more.
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The Intimacies and Intricacies of Organising
Evie Muir explores the intimacies and intricacies of organising in conversation with Peaks of Colour and Civic Square
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On displacement, reclamation and land
In this article spatial practitioner and artist, Amahra Spence discusses the impacts of dispossession and ‘regeneration’ on communities in Birmingham, and how Hood Futures is building spaces for connection, remembering and spatial justice.
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A Growing Culture on food sovereignty
HyoJin Park, from the organisation A Growing Culture, curates a reading list of texts and resources about food sovereignty, food systems and how we can work towards food justice globally.
We’re here to support work that’s already happening, amplify the voices that need to be heard, and showcase the strategies, voices and visions that are building a more just and equitable future.
Return weekly for new content and stories from worldbuilders and creatives around the world.
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Futures in Draft is produced by Storythings and supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
GLOSSARY
At Futures in Draft we recognise that terms used to describe this work are often evolving, interconnected and interchangeable, representing ideas in a growing field of practice. So, we’ve created a glossary to offer clarity and greater shared understanding of the words used on the site. Access it here.
Power of Place
Power of Place is a personal essay series that explores the transformative power of places around the world and how they are being used by communities as sites of resistance and worldbuilding.
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On displacement, reclamation and land
In this article spatial practitioner and artist, Amahra Spence discusses the impacts of dispossession and ‘regeneration’ on communities in Birmingham, and how Hood Futures is building spaces for connection, remembering and spatial justice.
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Finding a place in nature and rebuilding it for others
Birdwatcher and storyteller Nadeem Perera explores how spaces are being used to transform who gets to tell stories about nature and how this can transform our spaces, species and futures.
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Under the quiet of the moon
Land-based arts and the power of the communal for individual transformation
How To
Our How To guides offer practical step-by-step instructions of how best to use your individual actions to contribute to wider movements.
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How to dispose of your clothes ethically
Fair fashion activist Jemima Elliott offers tips and advice on how to dispose of your clothes ethically
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How to start guerrilla gardening
Kalpana Arias offers tips and advice on how to transform our cities through guerrilla gardening and building access to green spaces.
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How to bank ethically
Aimee Laurel offers tips and advice on how to build financial wealth through collective care, moving away from fossil fuel investment and extraction.
Worldbuilding
Our Worldbuilding series connects the theory of systems change to the work being done on the ground.
Conversations with organisers and spotlights on the work happening now
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The Intimacies and Intricacies of Organising
Evie Muir explores the intimacies and intricacies of organising in conversation with Peaks of Colour and Civic Square
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How Do We Grow?
Larissa Kennedy speaks with three organisations reshaping climate education and our relationship to environmental justice.
A World With
A World With is an audio series that celebrates the importance of imagination and vision work in expanding our beliefs around what is possible.
Step into a space and time powered by radical imagination.
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A world with free public dance parties
For the final episode of the season, New York based activist, resource mobiliser and cultural organiser, Thanushka (Thanu) Yakupitiyage brings free public dance parties to the world.
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A world with one nation
Director of the Decolonial Centre, Mohammed Elnaiem, invites us on an exploration of a world with one nation. Mohammed offers a powerful case for border abolition, charting the potential of a world where arbitrary lines on the map, competition, and othering are dismantled.
Pages for Changes
The Pages for Changes reading lists offer personalised and curated reading recommendations from key practitioners and actors in the ecosystem.
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A Growing Culture on food sovereignty
HyoJin Park, from the organisation A Growing Culture, curates a reading list of texts and resources about food sovereignty, food systems and how we can work towards food justice globally.
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Joycelyn Longdon on collective memory
Environmental justice technologist, communicator and author, Joycelyn Longdon curates a reading list of texts and resources about our ever-evolving cosmologies.
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Leah Cowan on queer futures
Writer and caseworker Leah Cowan curates a reading list of texts and resources about radical queer futures and the power of collective worldbuilding.
