Editing Imagination

== Ideas and Imaginaries - sustainable ==

In the practical planning of the 20th century of modern mass societies with increasing demand for economic prosperity and social justice, the former gained hegemony and in parliamentary political systems promises of a brighter future clearly appealed to most voters, so modern democracies were grounded on the idea of continued improvement. 

 


Even today, imaginaries of a sustainable future tend to '''highlight the countryside, despite the fact that optimized urban infrastructure is able to diminish harmful human effects on the environment''' much more efficiently than in a small, and scattered rural settlement. 

While a rapidly growing share of the world population is living in cities, and even bigger cities, parts of the environmental movement continue to depict simple, rural living as infinitely better than participation in the urban treadmill. Further, in complex matters such as sustainable development, it is sometimes easier to focus on the close neighborhood instead of the entire planet, also, when it comes to collective decision-making. Today, many sustainability initiatives therefore reflect the old slogan, think globally and act locally, by focusing on small local solutions. To many of us "small", to use the words of German-born British economist E.F. Schumacher from 1973, continues to be "beautiful".



'''Our recent understanding of time is formed by different historical temporalities'''.The recent understanding of a linear time, of a '''''progression towards a better future is a recent idea'''''. It was becoming or emerging in the late 18th century, but before that, we had the reverse idea actually that we were sort of leaving a golden age sort of paradise in the beginning and we were becoming more and more far from that.


We have the computers, we have the mobile phones, we have the internet, the social media is all over the place. And this is '''increasing our notion of the time is accelerating'''. So most of us have this feeling that we have never time enough. So there's a scarcity of time.


'''Caring for the future in our everyday mundane practices.'''

The everyday life and taking care of your family and household and friends.

But also it is a way of taking care of the future.

So I think the everyday life sort of became the obvious target also in future politics in the way that we can shape a better future.



imagination is a muscle that can be flexed to change the way we see – and act.

Hold space for ...

https://www.robhopkins.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ministry-of-the-Imagination_compressed-1.pdf

== Resources - hackaton ==

https://7at7.ch/7at7-booklet-review-2021.pdf

https://casco.art/activity/climate-justice-code/

https://digitale-gesellschaft.ch/nachhaltigkeit/fr/#nadi

http://nethood.org/studio/pd-methodology-booklet-v1.0_CARDS.pdf

== Iniciatives ==
https://c4r.info/en

http://terracritica.net/events/

https://earth4all.life/the-science/

== Ideas ==

reading room

'''Participatory design'''

Designing the process as an incremental collective learning process,





[[Carta ao meu neto]]
== Water ==

Water is life. Water is alive. It talks to us

Relationship with water: we talk, we can have a dialogue. 

It is something my community needs for you to be coming like this. 

I have to ask for your help. 

Water is a her

it says: find a large body of water, sing to it, talk into the wather. 

Water can travel trough the clouds. and snow your words. Aling yourself with life. 

Intention

The water travels, and its consciounsness travels not only over space but also thru time, as it is always the same water. It is a cliose system. All our ancestors have drunk from this water.