Our Hopeful Climate Futures
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✹ Project: A peer-to-peer learning journey using collective imagination to co-create more hopeful climate futures
✦ Funding: Collective Imagination Practice Community, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Canopy, and Huddle format from Huddlecraft
✦ Role: Huddle host, designing journey, design and facilitation of two sessions
✦ Collaborator: Andrea Gilly
✦ Year: 2023
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Our Hopeful Climate Futures was a 3-month peer-to-peer learning journey of imagination that will hold space for our climate grief and anxiety, whilst collectively building realistic optimism around our futures.
Supported by Huddlecraft, and funded by the Collective Imagination Practice Community (CIPC), the Huddle responds to CIPC’s goal of exploring and building the capacity of collective imagination to reimagine key components of wicked problems, society and culture.
In our Huddle, we wanted to create an equitable and accessible space that could create agency through active hope work around climate futures. With a group of 10 participants, we explored and imagined a series of different themes within climate futures (such as oceans, resilience, ritual and reciprocity), and imagining more hopeful futures that centre these themes.
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In the 3 month container, the Huddle served as a safe space for dreaming, vulnerability, grief and hope around the future and our climate.
Since its conclusion in December 2023, we have stayed in touch as a community and continue to explore related themes separately and in parallel with each other. The project opened up avenues of imagination exploration for all participants, as well as creating a space for hopefulness, digital connection and community.
