Hi peeps!!!
How are things going???
I know I have been absent the last 2 months, but I am pretty much certain that the idea I will share with you today will make up for my absence. No doubt, after reading this post, you will see that human beings live not only out of greed and hatred. Good people are all around trying hard to make a better, more sustainable, diverse, and creative world. We have plenty of opportunities to engage in and "Create Futures" movement is one way to do so. Thus, roll up your sleeves and get down to work.
This inspiring movement has been running since 2008 when Lala Deheinzelin (one of the pioneers in Creative Economy in Brazil), while researching images of the past about the future, realised that there had been many images and visions of desirable futures that inspired what we have nowadays since the end of XIX century. Not only the bright side of the future was predicted like, for instance, the presence of mobiles, computers, and the internet in our day life, but also its negative side was imagined and recorded by people in journals, books, and magazines like the presence of overcrowded cities, the problem with deforestation and the irrational use of natural resources, reproductive technology, among many others.
Based on that and supported by a reasoning line, which says that our imagination nurtures what our future will be like, a question was raised: if the reality we have today had already been conceived in the past, why not create positive futures that might inspire people to accomplish them? Thenceforth, this project was born. It consists of developing methodologies and digital platforms to facilitate the creation of desirable futures. People, communities and institutions can take part in it through meetings and on line activities where they will be invited to answer the question "If everything was possible, which future would you wish for?"
From this question the desirable futures were developed and served as the basis for writing the book "Desirable New World", which can be downloaded for free at www.criefuturos.com. It describes life in 2042 from three pillars that are essential to sustainability in the future:
1 Creative Economy: an economy based on intangible resources;
2 Information and communication technologies;
3 Collaborative processes and new ways of organizing a network society.
So, if you felt like learning more about these topics or even thought of sharing with people how your desirable world would be like if everything were possible, join this movement. For, as Peter Drucker says "The best way to predict the future is to create it."
