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“If we have the ability
to create stories
around these preferable visions of futures,
do we then have some sense
of agency and ownership
over
what the future becomes?”
Radha Mistry, Foresight Practitioner, 2024
Vision-Setting
What does success look like?
My work helps people imagine, on small and large scales, what radical success looks like. That's what visions do.
Visions describe the outcomes of change so that other people will come along with you toward better possibilities.
I argue for a new practice of design, called Social Design Dreaming, that emphasizes long-term visions as a leverage point for social change. I clarify why visions are effective by drawing on design theory and practice, futures studies perspectives and methods, and utopian and radical imagination theories.
"To be truly radical is to make hope possible
rather than despair convincing."
Raymond Williams
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