COLLECTIVE FUTURES FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET

Practitioners from the field of Collective Futures responded generously and whole heartedly to this global exploration. Sharing with us not just their experience and insights but also their techniques, inspirations and stories in how they navigate this field. We are aware of the potential value of this work for others and have been inspired by the community who engaged. As such we have taken a new interactive approach in sharing our findings.

By bringing together the distilled learning of what participants shared we have developed an open source online space for anyone interested in bringing Collective Futures approaches into their work, communities or organisations.

This exploratory space is accessible via Miro, a digital whiteboarding tool. Users can, in their own time, explore and interact with our Collective Futures research, as well as chapters containing a range of different resources and content including:

Shares concepts and different ways of looking and approaching the field of Collective Futures for people and planet.

Shares a growing resource library that might inspire different ways of thinking, doing and knowing.

Shares people’s experience of how this work shows up in practice.

Shares core insights from the research interviews and workshops, both sensemaking and enabling factors.

Shares a clear set of recommendations for policy, funding and decision-makers.

Invites people to explore and be inspired by different tools and resources.

The spaces have been arranged across two concentric circles, the inner circle focuses on our work, and the outer circle on our impact.

Our work

Throughout 2022 we’ve been learning with and from people exploring Collective Futures from around the world. In this section, we share how we framed this this enquiry (‘Space to think’), stories from the people we spoke to (‘Space for stories’) and the inspiration we drew on along the way (‘Space for inspiration’).

Our impact

Our work showed us how much potential there is for Collective Futures to move towards a better world for people and places. Here we share ways that the practice might grow (‘Space for insights’), and how we would like to influence external ecosystem to help the practice flourish (‘Space for influence’). Within the ‘Space for play’ section, we invite you to be part of growing this practice.

Both the ‘Space for inspiration’ and Space for stories’ sections will continue to grow during the coming months.

How can I get involved?

There are many opportunities to get involved with our Collective Futures work whether through engaging with our exploratory space, attending global conversations or events.

A big thank you to our contributors

We would like to extend a big thank you to all who contributed towards this important research, without whom, this work would not have been possible.

• UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK
• 10 UNBOXED Commissions
• The 14 initial research participants

• All those who joined our deep dive workshops
• Speakers from the Creative Conversation sessions
• The RSA project team