Regenerating imagination…
imagining regeneration

Planet Earth is in trouble. Its living systems are crumbling, as forests disappear, species are lost, water is polluted, ecosystems are simplified and the climate changes.

We rely on these living systems for our own survival, so these threats to the Earth are threats to our own existence. We have become the architects of a great environmental tragedy that could lead to the equally tragic demise of all that humanity has achieved.

At the same time, despite the staggering quantity of resources we are extracting from the planet, we have not yet found a way to deliver basic necessities to all people. Poverty and famine coincide with over-consumption and obesity epidemics. Parts of the world are stuck in bloody conflict while others engage in meaningless media circuses.

We desperately need to imagine regenerative futures in which we start to heal the damaged Earth and realise human potential. Our collective future depends on this collective imagination. The stories we tell ourselves about what is possible—our social imaginaries—are just as critical as technological and economic responses.

Planetcentric is an open-ended research and writing project exploring ways we can regenerate our imaginative capacity and imagine regenerative futures.