Description
As the uncertainty of global and local contexts continues to amplify, the Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures responds to the increasing urgency for reimagining futures beyond dystopias and utopias. It features essays that explore the challenges of how to think about compelling futures, what these better futures might be like, and what personal and collective practices are emerging that support the creation of more desirable futures.
The handbook aims to find a sweet spot somewhere between despair and naïve optimism, neither shying away from the massive socio-environmental planetary challenges currently facing humanity nor offering simplistic feel-good solutions. Instead, it offers ways forward—whether entirely new perspectives or Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge perspectives that have been marginalized within modernity—and shares potential transformative practices. The volume contains contributions from established and emerging scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners with diverse backgrounds and experiences: a mix of Indigenous, Black, Asian, and White/Caucasian contributors, including women, men, and trans people from around the world, in places such as Kenya, India, US, Canada, and Switzerland, among many others. Chapters explore critical concepts alongside personal and collective practices for creating desirable futures at the individual, community, organizational, and societal levels.
This scholarly and accessible book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students of leadership studies, social innovation, community and organizational development, policy studies, futures studies, cultural studies, sociology, and management studies. It will also appeal to educators, practitioners, professionals, and policymakers oriented toward activating creative potential for life-affirming futures for all.
Table of Contents
Introduction to The Handbook for Creative Futures
Gabrielle Donnelly and Alfonso Montuori
PART I: Context for Creative Futures
1. Why Creative Futures?
Alfonso Montuori and Gabrielle Donnelly
2. Postnormal Imagination with Ziauddin Sardar
In Conversation with Gabrielle Donnelly and Alfonso Montuori
3. Humanity’s Great Creativity Reset: Designing Worlds Beyond the Grand Global Futures Challenges
Jennifer M. Gidley
4. The Systems View of Life: A Science for Sustainable Living
Fritjof Capra
5. An Optimistic Future of Consciousness
Allan L. Combs
6. Social Construction and the Forming of Futures
Celiane Camargo-Borges and Kenneth J. Gergen
PART II: New Orientations and Reframings for Creative Futures
7. Making Sanctuary with Báyò Akómoláfé
In Conversation with Gabrielle Donnelly
8. Creating the Future: Five Principles of Realistic Hope
Angela Wilkinson and Betty Sue Flowers
9. Post-Oppositional Tactics for Transformation
AnaLouise Keating
10. Societies of the Possible
Vlad P. Glăveanu
11. Inhabiting Brilliance: Wrestling the Gifts of Narcissism
Jeanine M. Canty
12. The Wisdom of Holding Old Stories in New Ways: Intentionally Evolving Toward a More Inclusive and Creative Future
Jennifer Garvey Berger and Zafer Achi
13. Postnormal Creativity
Liam Mayo
14. Queer Convivial Futures
Sacha Kagan
15. Accessing the Future through Imagination
Anthony Hodgson
PART III: Reckoning with the Past and Present for Creative Futures
16. Gesturing Toward Decolonial Future with Vanessa Andreotti
In Conversation with Gabrielle Donnelly
17. Healing Historical Traumas: Empathic Dialogue in Creation of Better Futures
Nermin Soyalp
18. Creative Futures Begin with Reckoning with an Unjust Pasts
Sarah van Gelder
19. Entangled Landscapes: Healing as a Path to Sustaining Food Futures
Sarah Pitteollo and Chaiti Seth
20. "Reinventing" the Past to Imagine Better Futures
Constance de Saint Laurent
PART IV: Frameworks, Approaches, and Applications for Creative Futures
21. Creating Equitable Societies: Four Cornerstones
Riane Eisler
22. Setting Course for an Ecological Civilization
Jeremy Lent
23. Beyond and Through COVID-19: Possible Pivots to Different Futures
Sohail Inayatullah
24. Universal Basic Income for Creative Futures
Giuseppe Allegri and Renato Foschi
25. Transformation Catalysts, Narrative, and Art: Shaping New Potential for System Transformation
Sandra Waddock
26. A Transdisciplinary Analysis of Creativity within Fridays for Future School Strikes: Or "Pay No Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain"
Nwakerendu Waboso, Sarah Davis, and Richard C. Mitchell
27. Recasting the Future with Amazon Workers
Max Haiven, Graeme Webb, and Xenia Benivolski
28. Creative Futures Conspiracies: A Matrix and Some Maxims for Radical Social Re-imagination
Anthony Weston
29. The Future of the Past: Memory and Social Change following the COVID-19 Pandemic
Brady Wagoner and Lisa Herbig
30. Imagineering ‘Mission-Oriented Branding’: When Shifting from Fragmentation to Integration Seems Mission Impossible
Diane Nijs and Johan Leyssen
31. Sourced from Love: Pathways Toward Cultural Healing
A dialogue between Anneke Campbell and Nina Simons
PART V: Personal, Relational and Collaborative Practices for Creative Futures
32. Creating Compelling Futures with Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown
In Conversation with Gabrielle Donnelly
33. Taking a Radical Stance for Complex Joy in the Work of Shaping Change
Tuesday Ryan-Hart and Gabrielle Donnelly
34. The Use of Transformative Somatic Practices in Processes of Collective Imagination and Collaborative Future-Shaping
Nick Walker
35. Awareness-Based Collective Creativity: A Studio-Based Practice for Social Future-Making
Arawana Hayashi and Ricardo Dutra Gonçalves
36. Psychological Futures: Antifragility and the Imperative of Interdependence
Dana Klisanin
37. A World with Space for All to Be: Generative Mindfulness, Awareness-Based Action Research, and Inclusion
Kathryn Goldman Schuyler, Lemuel W. Watson, and Patricia A. Wilson
