Conversations about Midcentury
Author: Hank Kune Issue: 2022-05-18
Conversations about Midcentury
by Hank Kune
What are the futures people really want – and are committed to work towards? These days there is a lot of talk about this, and about how can we bring the diverse perspectives together – and especially the ideas of the ‘unheard third’ of society – our elders (so often consigned to mere grandparenting after retiring from professional work) and young people (rarely paid attention to by society’s decision-makers, at least until they reach the age to vote).
During the first week of June, Time’s Arrow & Future Voices will initiate a multigenerational dialogue about climate change, the environment, and what people want the world to be like at Midcentury.
During the week of activities around Stockholm+50 and World Environment Day (2nd – 5th June) several dinners and dedicated sessions on these themes will be held, and the results of these sessions – combined with the output of the Future Voices program and other related workshops – will be presented on World Environment Day, June 5th.
Our intention is to use this ‘moment’ to launch a series of intergenerational dialogues during the coming year, leading up an apotheosis (of sorts) on World Environmental Day in June 2023: “Conversations about Midcentury” and the world we want to live in.
These activities will help people structure their thinking – and feelings – and visualize possibilities for different sustainable futures. Using the Positive Cartography methodology – combining interactive media and visual thinking – participants will experience and explain their own preferred futures.
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The intention is to help people – young and old – become aware of the possibilities for and power of working together. Become aware of what they really want, and commit to work towards achieving it.
Conversations about Midcentury is about people in different countries and continents thinking and working together. It’s about children dreaming the world and elders dreaming the future, and empowering young and old to realize their dreams.
Ideally, an orchestrated set of activities (both national and international), integrating an immersive scenario-experience, (digital) storytelling, and Positive Cartography.
Conversations will explore the perspectives of old and young on sustainable future societies and cities, addressing climate change, redefining elderhood and eliminating ageism, listening to people’s voices & choices, and the development of intergenerational solidarity as called for in UN Secretary-General Guterres’ 2021 report Our Common Agenda (un.org).
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Core team Time’s Arrow: Leif Edvinsson, Hank Kune, Jenny Quillien, Anders Varger
Related:
- Hank Kune (author)
- 2022 (year)
- Topics: Climate and Environment