Unleashing Hopeful Futures
Our capacity to imagine and create better futures remains our most powerful tool for change. Through art, story, and collective imagination, we're creating spaces to envision and build the world we want to see—one where communities thrive in harmony with a restored planet.
Our Vision
We believe that hope is not just optimism, but a practice of imagining and working toward better futures. By bringing together artists, activists, researchers, and communities, we're building a platform for collective imagination that bridges today's challenges with tomorrow's possibilities. Our work creates space for communities to dream boldly while developing practical pathways toward those visions.
Why Imagination Matters
Creative imagination isn't just about dreaming—it's about expanding what we believe is possible and creating pathways to get there. When we can collectively envision better futures, we increase our capacity to build them. We intend to create collective space, guided workshops, and creative products to anchor the work we do today in the futures we desire.
We need a vision that recognizes that we are one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.”
-Grace Lee Boggs
“The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world.”
-The Dark Mountain Project
“I learned in school how to deconstruct—but how do we move beyond our beautiful deconstruction? Who teaches us to reconstruct? How do we cultivate the muscle of radical imagination needed to dream together beyond fear?”
-Adrienne Maree Brown
Creative Projects
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Grist’s Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors short story contest celebrates stories that offer vivid, hope-filled, diverse visions of climate progress.
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Designed for both individual and collective use, “Fearless Futures: A Feminist Cartographer’s Toolkit” is a co-created toolkit encouraging everyone and anyone to develop a process that helps us move beyond our doubts and into a space of imagination. We know what we hate, but do we know what we love just as clearly?
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Detroit Sci-Fi Generator is a set of sci-fi experiments, facilitated workshops, and curated stories to strengthen the radical imagination muscle we need to move our society beyond fear-based survival and center our visions in the face of constant change, of shaping the future.
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Unleashing Alternative Futures - Archive of stories developed through a series of collaborative workshops focused on unleashing and weaving alternative futures.
Program Initiatives
Climate Future Labs
Interactive workshops that bring together diverse voices to imagine and visualize positive climate futures. Through structured creative exercises, storytelling, and artistic expression, participants develop detailed visions of transformed communities and explore pathways to realize them.
Stories of Tomorrow
A growing collection of narratives, artwork, and multimedia pieces that capture community visions for a climate-positive future. These stories help us see beyond current constraints and inspire action toward the futures we desire.
Virtual Museum of Hopeful Futures:
Coming Soon An evolving digital gallery showcasing creative works that envision hopeful climate futures. The museum will feature:
Community-generated artwork
Stories and narratives
Interactive exhibitions
Resource collections
Workshop outcomes
Send us your Hopeful Futures!
Share your creative work imagining hopeful climate futures:
Stories and narratives
Visual art
Music and performance
Digital media
Community visions
