“A post-capitalist, non-rivalrous future in which commons architectures & civic utilities replace state & corporations.” The ambition of Open Civics
YES WE CAN, TECHNOLOGY, SOCIO-POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTURE, PLANETARIAN, MANIFESTOS, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, COMMUNITYpat kanecivic tech, civil society, open source, open innovation
How to write a 20-point Magna Carta for democratic cities—starting in a Rome hotel room
Rekindle, Reclaim, Roots... From her Manchester base, Ruth Ibegbuna aims to bridge class, social and cultural divides in the UK
YES WE CAN, YOUTH, SOCIO-POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTURE, NEW ECONOMICS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, MANIFESTOS, LAB FOCUS, INDIVIDUAL, COMMUNITY, BEHAVIOUR, LEARNINGpat kaneschools, supplementary schools, manchester, london, Glasgow
Rob Hopkins’ Ministry of Imagination has produced a manifesto of what-if policies - from the most starry-eyed to the costed and practical
BIG PICTURE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, NEW ECONOMICS, INGENUITY, MANIFESTOS, POLITICAL CULTURE, PRACTICE, REGEN ECONOMIES, TECHNOLOGY, YES WE CANpat kaneimagination, rob hopkins, transition network
“Less mechanisation in life! Resist the machine apocalypse!” We’re pretty techno-optimist here, but these are powerful voices against
What is the Fête of Britain? It's a four-day takeover in Manchester, curated by Brian Eno and Es Devlin's new cultural movement, Hard Art
Roger Hallam creates his own media space and says "it's time for Revolution" on the climate
Jeremy Rifkin creates the biggest picture: an Age of Progress superseded by an Age of Resilience
Here Comes Everyone: XR's strategy for 2023-24 aims sees strengthening communities as the path to effective climate protest
ACTION, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, MANIFESTOS, COMMUNITY, SOCIO-POLITICSpat kanexr, Extinction Rebellion, strategy, climate crisis, climate emergency, climate breakdown, activism
The sheer, inarguable wisdom of Ursula K. LeGuin, charting human ethical progress from heart to stars
There's another job to do, beyond building cosmolocal CANs - and that's fixing our utterly broken electoral system. That's what #WinAsOne aims to do
A day of visionary urbanists and community designers, speaking at Turkey's Harvest Kaplankaya
COMMUNITY, GLOBALISTS, SOCIO-POLITICS, REGEN ECONOMIES, NEW ECONOMICS, LOCALISM, MANIFESTOS, 4TH SECTORpat kaneturkey, urban studies, urban development, architecture, design, ecodesign, biomimicry
Hardly any green or climate Q's are being put to the Tory leadership candidates. Well, here's fifty for them
Extinction Rebellion know how to disrupt you. But for 2022, they’re going to be a lot more conversational with their potential audiences
"An enchanted community of citizens, driven by idealist pragmatism, demanding imaginative transcendence of the here and now": Masha Gessen on a parallel polis
A/UK at Demos Helsinki’s “Untitled” event. Engaging both imagination and experimentation makes for real change
“36X36” brings a global generation of young wxmen economists together, to “develop the pillars for our economic future”
"When you feel burnt out, or if you're shutting down and want to hide, do the opposite". Pulsating manifestos from Pussy Riot and BLM
Out of the mutual aid of Coronavirus, the “Village in the City Manifesto” wants us to make new traditions of conviviality
"The governing -isms are broken". So futurist Adah Parris is opening up a network—called *-ism*—to urgently invite (and invent) some new ones