Designing Hope - Visions to Shape our Future

When did we stop dreaming of a better future?What happened to the sci-fi golden age of the 1950s, when futurism flourished as a discipline and drove innovation?As a society, either we struggle to imagine something good for the times to come or we fail to picture any future at all. Our world is in polycrisis; we face climate breakdown, societal fracturing, governmental collapse, war, and rising inequality. The exciting outcomes we dreamed of, from the space race to the wonder material plastic, have brought contingent problems of their own. We haven't yet developed mainstream and accessible new narratives to replace these failures, and if you ask someone to imagine 'the future', they'll probably still picture flying cars. Designing Hope resets expectations. Through the lens of four emerging futures, Sarah Housley shows us visions of hope that inspire action and critical thinking about how we'll live in the decades to come.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Housley
• Publisher: The Indigo Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2025
• EAN: 9781911648970
• ISBN: 978-1-911648-97-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 15 mm x 207 mm
• Weight: 265 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, Social impact of environmental issues, Science / Environmental Science, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental science, engineering and technology