The first exhibition of the writing and artwork from the Art to Imagine a Better Future project was shown along Exhibition Walk in Great Malvern from 24th February 2025 to 7th April 2025. It is also online. Our next exhibition is at Hellens Garden Festival on June 7th and 8th 2025.
Phase two of the project may be around adapting to a changed climate and the challenges that brings for local communities from different areas and cultures, and also looking at how we can take some of the visions forward to build a better future.
We have been asking colleges, schools, adults and families to create stories and art to imagine a better future – where humanity has done everything it can by 2035 to solve the climate and nature crisis. What would life be like in 2035? It wouldn’t be perfect, and it would certainly be very different to today. But we would at least be heading in the right direction and see a positive future on the horizon.
Through a display of artwork alongside mini-stories we would like your help in coming up with visions of a better 2035. The aim of this project is to inspire people to work towards this better future.
We have been running workshops in our local area around Herefordshire and Worcestershire in the UK, but we accept stories and art from anywhere!
How do we travel? What do we eat? Where does our food come from? How do we use less energy? What does government look like? How do we cope with extreme weather? How do we get on with each other? How do we treat nature and animals?
How have we tackled the climate crisis, nature loss and inequality and put solutions into practice?
Inspiration
The imagination sessions have been inspired by the work of Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Towns movement. Rob runs runs imagination sessions for live audiences and produces the podcast From what if to what next, which invites guests to visualise a new future.
Recent Posts
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The first exhibition is on display!
Under the Art to Imagine a Better Future project we have produced 28 sets of artwork and writing for the display along “Exhibition Walk” in Great Malvern. The art boards showcase designs that students, families and adults produced when we asked them to imagine what 2035 would be like if we had done everything we…
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Workshop and Stall at the Malvern Festival of Ideas
The Malvern Festival of Ideas was a great community event, with lots of talks and workshops on the theme of “Telling Tales”. Chris Packham was the keynote speaker on the Friday evening. On Saturday, we held an imagination workshop for families. The children and adults really got involved and produced great stories, drawings and collages.…
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A beaver-rich story and artwork!
I started on this Art2imagine project straight after new year. As happens to many of us, the optimism of the new year may have outweighed the realities of life and how much free time I had. My grand idea was to make a collage, using all the various wildlife and eco-related magazines I have stacked…
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Team Prepares for Launch!
Here are some photos of recent gatherings as we get together to work on launching the project! In the upcoming weeks, we’ll be contacting local schools, colleges and universities, and putting our leaflets in locations around Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
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Ways in which you can help the project
We have set up a Crowdfunder to help support the project, so if you could afford a one off or regular donation that would really help us get the project off the ground.You can also contact us if you would like to help. We are particularly looking for people to be part of a team running workshops in schools…
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For inspiration – A story from 2030 – Phoebe Tickell
This is from the excellent Rob Hopkins podcast From What if to what next – Episode 69 – “What if every institution ran imagination activist training?” Phoebe Tickell, of Moral Imaginations, author of imagination training, describes what she finds in 2030: Well, I just decided to walk back from Camden Town towards Camden Council, where…
Photo credits for this webpage: Paintings on walkway: Andy Lyon; Watercolours, paper and brushes: 1681551 from Pixabay; Paintbrushes in jar: Leopictures from Pixabay