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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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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Maria Thomas on Care, Not Criminalisation
Maria Thomas curates a reading list on building structures of care, free from criminalisation, carcerality and harm.
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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
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.
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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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 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.
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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.
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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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
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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Maria Thomas on Care, Not Criminalisation
Maria Thomas curates a reading list on building structures of care, free from criminalisation, carcerality and harm.
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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.
Ideas in Progress
Our Ideas in Progress format is a space to collect and share thoughts, visions and ideas from practitioners in the ecosystem.
Inspiration and questions from the people building change in the now
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Would the world be a more empathetic place if we all read more books?
Rachel Birnam explores the role of fiction in helping to make sense of the world and allowing us to model the futures we want to see
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What’s your craft?
Jasmine Rashid explores how crafts can allow us to find refuge, connection and provide us with the tools to create new futures