The Handbook for Creative Futures
This handbook responds to the increasing urgency for reimagining futures beyond dystopias and utopias. It features essays that explore the challenges of how to think about compelling futures, what these better futures might be like, and what personal and collective practices are emerging that support the creation of more desirable futures.
It will be a valuable resource for researchers and students of leadership studies, social innovation, community and organizational development, equity studies, policy studies, futures studies, cultural studies, sociology, and management studies. It will also appeal to educators, practitioners, professionals, and policymakers. The volume includes well known contributors including Ziauddin Sardar, adrienne maree brown, Autumn Brown, Báyò Akómoláfé, Riane Eisler, AnaLouise Keating, Fritjof Capra, Arawana Hayashi, Jeremy Lent, Kenneth J. Gergen, and many more.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I: Context for Creative Futures
Why Creative Futures? ~ Alfonso Montuori & Gabrielle Donnelly
Postnormal Imagination with Ziauddin Sardar ~ In Conversation with Gabrielle Donnelly & Alfonso Montuori
Humanity’s Great Creativity Reset: Designing Worlds Beyond the Grand Global Futures Challenges ~ Jennifer M. Gidley
The Systems View of Life: A Science for Sustainable Living ~ Fritjof Capra
An Optimistic Future of Consciousness ~ Allan L. Combs
Social Construction and the Forming of Futures ~ Celiane Camargo-Borges & Kenneth J. Gergen
PART II: New Orientations and Reframings for Creative Futures
Making Sanctuary with Báyò Akómoláfé ~ In Conversation with Gabrielle Donnelly
Creating the Future: Five Principles of Realistic Hope ~ Angela Wilkinson & Betty Sue Flowers
Post-Oppositional Tactics for Transformation ~ AnaLouise Keating
Societies of the Possible ~ Vlad P. Glăveanu
Inhabiting Brilliance: Wrestling the Gifts of Narcissism ~ Jeanine M. Canty
The Wisdom of Holding Old Stories in New Ways: Intentionally Evolving Towards a More Inclusive and Creative Future ~ Jennifer Garvey Berger & Zafer Achi
Postnormal Creativity ~ Liam Mayo
Queer Convivial Futures ~ Sacha Kagan
Accessing the Future through Imagination ~ Anthony Hodgson
PART III: Reckoning with the Past and Present for Creative Futures
Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures with Vanessa Andreotti ~ In Conversation with Gabrielle Donnelly
Healing Historical Traumas: Empathic Dialogue in Creation of Better Futures ~ Nermin Soyalp
Creative Futures Begin with Reckoning with an Unjust Pasts ~ Sarah van Gelder
Entangled Landscapes: Healing as a Path to Sustaining Food Futures ~ Sarah Pittoello & Chaiti Seth
‘Reinventing’ the Past to Imagine Better Futures ~ Constance de Saint Laurent
PART IV: Frameworks, Approaches, and Applications for Creative Futures
Creating Equitable Societies: Four Cornerstones ~ Riane Eisler
Setting Course for an Ecological Civilization ~ Jeremy Lent
Beyond and Through Covid-19: Possible Pivots to Different Futures ~ Sohail Inayatullah
Universal Basic Income for Creative Futures ~ Giuseppe Allegri & Renato Foschi
Transformation Catalysts, Narrative, and Art: Shaping New Potential for System Transformation ~ Sandra Waddock
A Transdisciplinary Analysis of Creativity within Fridays for Future School Strikes: Or ‘Pay No Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain’ ~ Nwakerendu Waboso, Sarah Davis, & Richard C. Mitchell
Recasting the Future with Amazon Workers ~ Max Haiven, Graeme Webb & Xenia Benivolski
Creative Futures Conspiracies: A Matrix and Some Maxims for Radical Social Re-imagination ~ Anthony Weston
The Future of the Past: Memory and Social Change following the COVID-19 Pandemic ~ Brady Wagoner and Lisa Herbig
Imagineering ‘Mission-Oriented Branding’: When Shifting from Fragmentation to Integration Seems Mission Impossible ~ Diane Nijs & Johan Leyssen
Sourced from Love: Pathways Toward Cultural Healing ~ A dialogue between Anneke Campbell and Nina Simons
PART V: Personal, Relational and Collaborative Practices for Creative Futures
Creating Compelling Futures with Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown ~ In Conversation with Gabrielle Donnelly
Taking a Radical Stance for Complex Joy in the Work of Shaping Change ~ Tuesday Ryan-Hart & Gabrielle Donnelly
The Use of Transformative Somatic Practices in Processes of Collective Imagination and Collaborative Future-Shaping ~ Nick Walker
Awareness-based Collective Creativity: Studios for Social Future-Making ~ Ricardo Dutra Goncalves & Arawana Hayashi
Psychological Futures: The Antifragile Mindset and Imperative of Interdependence ~ Dana Klisanin
A World with Space for All to Be: Generative Mindfulness, Awareness Based Action Research, and Inclusion ~ Kathryn Goldman Schuyler, Lemuel W. Watson, Patricia A. Wilson