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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 […]

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.

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.

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

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

This is from the excellent Rob Hopkins podcast From What if to what next – Episode 69 – “What if every institution ran imagination activist training?” Georgia Gould, Leader of Camden Council, describes what she finds in 2030: Well, I’m in Kentish Town, which is my ward where I grew up in. I’ve gone on

This is from the excellent Rob Hopkins podcast From What if to what next – Episode 70 – “What if we all became better utopians?” Gregory Claeys, who wrote “Utopianism for a dying planet: Life after Consumerism”, describes what he finds in 2030: So, welcome one and all to 2030. Which would have been, as

Christiana Figueres, who oversaw the landmark Paris Agreement on Climate Change, has been talking about the resistance of the fossil fuel industry to using its vast resources to rapidly move away from oil and gas and invest in renewables. Christiana was talking on the podcast “Outrage and Optimism” with co-founder Tom Rivett-Carnac, and the discussion

By Iszi Jones. On Saturday Malvern Green Space held their second annual sustainable fashion show, involving Malvern Youth Club and many others in a joyous burst of creativity and second hand clothes. I was tasked to give a short talk to get the serious part of the message across.. it went down very well I’m