Beschreibung
Responding to the increasing urgency for reimagining futures beyond dystopias and utopias, this book explores 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.
Gabrielle Donnelly is a writer, educator, and scholar-practitioner. Her work focuses on bridging social change theories and practices to support leaders and communities to engage with the complex issues of the times and create more compelling futures. Gabrielle is an Associate Professor at Acadia University (Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia, Canada) and a Lead Strategist at The Outside, a global consultancy activating large-scale equitable change. She is a consulting editor of World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. Alfonso Montuori is an educator, musician, and consultant. He is a Professor at California Institute of Integral Studies and has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Fine Arts at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and in the Department of Psychology at the “Sapienza” University of Rome, and also taught at the Central South University in Hunan, China in the mid-80s. Alfonso is the author of several books and numerous articles on the future, creativity, complexity, leadership and education. He is co-editor of World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research