Author: Chris Riedy
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Regenerative futures
This post explores how a choice of university subjects changed my life and how my search for meaning has led me beyond sustainable futures to regenerative futures.
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The degradation of imagination
We all have the capacity to imagine but our collective imaginaries have been slowly degraded by decades of capitalist narratives, negative politics and colonisation.
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Imagination is a time machine
We need to imagine better worlds as a first step towards creating better worlds. This post explores what imagination is through definitions and metaphors.
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Storming the fortress
I use The Hunger Games to explore a type of dystopian narrative called a fortress world. In these unequal worlds, a hero arises to storm the fortress and set us free. Unfortunately, the real world is much more complex than these imagined worlds.
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Hope amongst the ruins
An exploration of how hope lives on even in the most dystopian realities and stories. The post connects Hiroshima and Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Road.
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The dark future
It is easy to imagine a dark future for humanity. Popular culture provides countless examples of how it could all go wrong for humanity. Why are we so obsessed with dystopian futures and what does this mean for our ability to imagine a better world?
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Regenerating imagination, imagining regeneration
I am starting a new blog called Planetcentric with the tagline ‘regenerating imagination, imagining regeneration’. This first post gives background to the project, which will explore how we can build our collective imaginative capacity to support emergence of regenerative futures. In upcoming posts, you can expect to read about ideas from speculative fiction genres such…