From What If to What Next
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From What If to What Next
If there was ever a time for fresh thinking, for being bold, for being visionary and imaginative – for reimagining everything – this is it. Each episode, writer and Transition Movement founder, Rob Hopkins, invites cutting edge thinkers to visualise a new future. Join us as we ask What If...
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100 - In conversation with Walidah Imarisha.
And here we are. Episode 100. What a journey! Thank you so much for being a part of it with me. I could not be more delighted by today's guest, who I...
99 - What if invitations to participate in civic life were creative and caring?
On this, our 99th episode of ‘From What If to What Next’, we have the first episode in which both guests actually joined my physically in the studio!...
98 - What if we deeply listened to the natural world?
You're in for a bit of a treat here. In today's episode things are a little bit different: you usual Producer is your host, you usual host is a guest,...
97 - What if there was an alternative to capitalism, after all?
Today's episode is a beauty. It brings together Dr. Lyla June Johnston, an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsé...
96 - What if we had a Right to Roam?
Here in the UK, the Right to Roam has been pushed into the news headlines by the activities of Dartmoor landowner Alexander Darwall, who just announce...
95 - What if we became better Protopians?
Better what, I hear you ask? You're in for a treat as I introduce you to futurist and futures designer Monika Bielskyte. She is one of the world's bol...
94 - What if compassion could heal society?
Season's greetings to you! Here is your special Christmas day episode, appropriately focusing on the theme of compassion. Our guests are Jared Seide a...
93 - What if we could reimagine the world in bioregions?
As you'll have spotted by now, we're never ones to shy away from asking a good big bold What If question. This week we are diving into the question of...
92 - What if we decolonised the ecological sector?
The British Ecological Society’s REED Ecological Network (REED standing for Racial and Ethnic Equality and Diversity) was formed due to the very low l...
91 - What if we could train our imagination to reimagine change?
Jonathan Rhodes and Joanna Grover recently wrote a great book called 'The Choice Point' and work together as Imagery Coaching. They work with a wide r...
90 - In conversation with Aisha Shillingford
On some of our 'decade' episodes (well, 50 and 80 anyway) we changed from our usual two guest format to an in-depth conversation with someone who repr...
89 - What if everyone had the inner skills to navigate the climate crisis?
This week I'm joined by Aimee Lewis Reau and LaUra Schmidt, authors of 'How to Live in a Chaotic Climate: 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Co...
88 - What if workers were in charge of the energy transition?
This is a wonderful conversation. It's a deep dive into a powerful reimagining of who our energy system serves, and what it might look like. My two gu...
87 - What if fungi saved the world?
Welcome to one of those episodes of From What If to What Next that really gets under your skin. We are going to step out of our everyday commonplace u...
85 - What if our visionaries and activists were properly resourced?
This week's episode is just delightful. Meet Leah Black, currently leading the development of the new Regenerative Futures Fund for Edinburgh, and Sha...
86 - What if care, cooperation, kinship and collective wellbeing were the ethics we lived by?
When it comes to work that celebrates the radical imagination, Jayna Brown's recent book Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other World...
84 - What if we had a Seaweed Revolution?
As soon as I started reading 'The Seaweed Revolution' by Vincent Doumeizel, I knew we would have to do an episode of this podcast about seaweed! It is...
83 - What if we gave Nature rights?
This is a rather special episode, our first recorded in front of an actual audience! Recorded live at the wonderful Timber Festival, this episode take...
82 - What if we loved politicians?
Never let it be said on this podcast that we shy away from the big questions! I loved this conversation so much, it was one of those conversations tha...
81 - What if we lived in a healthy human culture?
This week we are exploring how we do things, rather than what we do. We are diving into the concept of 'healthy human cultures' and how to build them....
80 - In conversation with Otto Scharmer
Today’s podcast was recorded live in Paris, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. As part of the wonderful ChangeNOW festival in the Grand Palais Ephémèr...
79 - What if sports could accelerate the shift to a low carbon future?
You’re in for a treat this week. I so enjoyed this conversation. In this episode I was joined by Laura Baldwin, British Olympic sailor, Transition and...
78 - What If biodiversity bounced back?
The diversity of the natural world is declining at a rapid rate, and has been for many decades. Many people present that as being an inevitability, a...
77 - In conversation with Mariame Kaba
We're back, and boy oh boy are you in for a treat. Since Episode One there were two guests I most wanted to have on this podcast. The first, adrienne...
76 - What If cutting our individual carbon use went viral?
Recent research, entitled The Future of Consumption in an 1.5°C World, carried out by the University of Leeds, C40 Cities and Arup, powerfully shows t...
75 - What if we distributed power differently in our organisations?
This was such a beautiful conversation to be part of, with two old friends, and a story that I play at least a small role in.
In 2015, Transitio...
74 - What if we decolonised economics?
We're never one to shy away from the big questions, and to dive deep into the remarkable and far more delightful world that could yet be created if we...
73 - What if education took place in nature?
If you were one of those kids in school who stared out of the window most of the time, this episode is for you.
I'm joined by Kwesia X, aka City...
72 - What if we shifted to a not-for-profit economy?
Today's episode brings a big idea, like a really BIG idea, one that you may initially need to suspend disbelief in order to settle into but which, hop...
71 - What if imagination was treasured as a central part of childhood?
This week I'm joined by two of the greatest practitioners of the imagination that I know. Dr. Penny A Hay is an artist, educator and researcher, Reade...
70 - What if we all became better Utopians?
This episode of 'From What If to What Next' focuses on Utopianism, on our ability to imagine better futures. This is such an amazing conversation with...
69 - What if every institution ran Imagination Activist training?
It's time for our Christmas special. We wanted to leave 2022 on a high, with a hugely inspirational story of imagination in action, of imagination goi...
68 - What if the advertising industry helped create a positive future for humanity?
The advertising industry is one of the key things driving the levels of consumption that are pushing us towards climate breakdown. But there are peopl...
67 - What if we eradicated homelessness?
This is not a podcast that shies away from the big and important What If questions, and today we're reaching out for one of the big ones of our time....
66 - What if beavers were allowed to reshape our world?
You're in for such a treat. Today's episode is about beavers, and what the future would look like if we allowed them to reshape the world in the way t...
65 - What if faith communities were a critical part of the emerging imagination infrastructure?
Today's episode was recorded live at the BTS Centre's Convocation 2022, an online event with the theme of 'Imagination and Collective Liberation for a...
64 - What if the Black Fantastic reshaped the world?
This week's episode is such a treat. Over the summer I devoured Ekow Eshun's amazing book 'In the Black Fantastic', the catalogue of the exhibition of...
63 - What if disability justice, deep inclusion and liberation were centred in healthcare, education and the arts?
I think you are really going to enjoy this one. My reading over the summer holidays was Shayda Kafai’s brilliant book ‘Crip Kinship: The Disability Ju...
62 - What if land were owned and managed for the common good?
Just 1% of the population own half the land in England, and citizens have a Right to Roam over only 8% of its surface. This deliberate exclusion has m...
61 - In conversation with Cyril Dion
Today’s podcast is something a little different. We’re departing from our usual format a little to spend some time in deeper conversation with one of...