People
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Stories
Transforming
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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.
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What if the future is already in motion?
Suzanne Dhaliwal shares her experience of movement work, reflecting on memory and the futures we begin before we can name them.
We’re here to platform 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.
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.
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Futures in Draft is supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
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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Who will Bristol Harbourside be for in 100 years?
Rachael Burton discusses plans for Bristol Harbourside’s regeneration, exploring what it means to be a good steward.
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There is something in the water
Divya Narayanan writes about the power of community organising and the campaign to save the trees, neighbourhood and lake in her town in Bengaluru.
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Finding community at the food court
Australia based writer and organiser Jon Bellebono writes about the importance of food courts as spaces for community, action and worldbuilding.
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 reduce your reliance on Big Tech
Climate, tech and queer rights journalist Liana DeMasi offers advice on how to support a world without Big Tech and tech exploitation
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How to reduce online addiction
Founder of #Offline48 and fair fashion campaigner, Venetia La Manna, offers tips and advice on how to improve our health and build collective power by resisting the extraction of our online world
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How to listen for community resilience
Facilitator and community resilience consultant Jo McAndrews offers learning and advice on how to listen meaningfully in community and in our organising.
Worldbuilding
Our Worldbuilding series connects the theory of systems change to the work being done on the ground.
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Education as the practice of freedom
Larissa Kennedy speaks with three UK based organisations about education and explores how we can transgress inside and outside of the system
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The intimacies and intricacies of Land Justice
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.
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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.
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A world with no landlords
In this episode, UK-based writer, creative producer and educator Sara Bafo presents the potential of a world with no landlords.
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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Shon Faye on rethinking violence and power
Author Shon Faye curates a list of books and other resources that help us to consider what purpose violence serves in our politics
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Disha A Ravi on fiction for change
Climate justice activist Disha A Ravi curates a reading list of fiction books and other resources that asks us to reconnect and reimagine a new and better life with the natural world.
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Maria Thomas on care, not criminalisation
Maria Thomas curates a reading list on building structures of care, free from criminalisation, carcerality and harm.
Ideas in Progress
Our Ideas in Progress format is a space to collect and share thoughts, visions and ideas from practitioners in the ecosystem.
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What if the future is already in motion?
Suzanne Dhaliwal shares her experience of movement work, reflecting on memory and the futures we begin before we can name them.
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What’s in a Gherkin?
Marzena Zukowska writes about the power of gherkins and how Polish pickles can help reimagine a more sustainable future
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What’s your love language of place?
Rosanna Vitiello reflects on the importance of rekindling relationships with the places we care for (and those that care for us).
