At a time of growing polarisation and lack of political visions, it sometimes seems as if the only thing we can all agree on is that the future will be awful.
BUT, our history is full of examples that visionary and committed citizens, can change society, quickly, dramatically and unexpected. Sometimes our imagination just need a little friendly nudge. That is why on September 12th 2024 we invited Rob Hopkins, of the Transition Towns movement, who has seen it happens with his own eyes around the world and in his own small English town of Totnes. Here the local community has become its own housing developer, energy company, business incubator and food producer. So on Thursday, September 12, we built a time travelling machine inside the heart of our local democracy in Copenhagen City Hall and travelled to a 2030 where we made it. Luckily, we were able to recover this footage from the time machines hard drive, giving everyone in the now a glimpse of the beautiful positive future our hearts know is possible. Enjoy!

“IF WE WAIT FOR THE GOVERNMENTS, IT’LL BE TOO LATE; IF WE ACT AS INDIVIDUALS, IT’LL
BE TOO LITTLE; BUT IF WE ACT AS COMMUNITIES, IT MIGHT JUST BE ENOUGH, JUST IN TIME.”
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On the ministry of imagination
This year, 49% of the world goes to the polls in 64 countries. As Time magazine puts it, “2024 is not just AN election year. It’s perhaps THE election year”. The outcomes of these elections will hugely shape the world and our future. In most cases, voters are being asked to choose between deeply unimaginative manifestos, all firmly wedded to a business-as-usual economic model that is clearly and dangerously failing around the world.

Perhaps now more than ever, we need a taste of what policymaking underpinned by the radical imagination looks like. Recognising how extraordinary and powerful this collection of possibility-infused policies from an eclectic mix of people from all around the world (including Brian Eno, Rutger Bregman and Kate Raworth – ecologists, renegade economists, artists, prison abolitionists, somatic trauma therapists, printmakers, politicians, disability activists, rewilding practitioners, prison abolitionists and so many more) I felt it was important to collect them all in one accessible place. And so ‘The Ministry of Imagination Manifesto: an imagination-based manifesto for times that need one’ was born.

You can download it here: https://www.robhopkins.net/wp-content...