22 projects

4M for the Future: Women living with HIV reimagining the future by 4M Mentor Mothers Network

Women living with HIV will document their visions for a better future following the COVID-19 pandemic through photography and creative writing

Camerados & People Voice Media by The Association of Camerados

Creating equitable informal conversation spaces like the Camerados ‘public living rooms’ to gather diverse voices, initiating change in communities

The UK in One Zoom by Can Create

Sharing, listening and learning from the lessons of the COVID-19 crisis across diverse groups, initiating a UK-wide listening infrastructure

The Job Design Lab by Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action

Charting a new future about what ‘good work’ can look like and prototyping and experimenting through hundreds of workshops nationally

Centre of Knowledge Equity by Centre for Knowledge Equity

Setting up the new Imagination Observatory to enable future leaders with lived experience to embrace complexity and creativity

CIVIC SQUARE - Department of Dreams by Civic Square

Providing and co-designing tools for communities to imagine their own futures, building on #DeptofDreams RE-Festival held during lockdown

Emerging with Pride by Consortium of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Voluntary and Community Organisations

Shaping new wellbeing, safety, and connectedness priorities through the narratives of marginalised and intersectional LGBT people

Transforming Civil Society by Dark Matter Labs

Focussing on seeing and breaking the structural and systemic barriers to transformative community change and development

Community Design Network: A new community infrastructure by Design Council

Generating a new network of community infrastructure designers to consciously construct place across the UK

Re-imagining Communities by Gal-Dem

Sending writers to gather ideas for the future from women and non-binary people of colour to be more involved in shaping the future of civil society

Kin (Kinfolk Network) by KIN

Gathering Black leaders to strengthen and rebuild their communities after the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in a community-informed future vision

MAIA: Emerging Futures by MAIA Creatives

Delving deep into the Black-led interconnection between space, built environs, cultures and community work to repattern society coming out of the long crisis

The Radical Way by New Local Government Network

Rethinking welfare provision by connecting new community energy into local government, implementing Hilary Cottam’s Radical Help principles

Attachment economics: community narratives in the new economy by Onion Collective

Bringing new voices into the traditionally elitist conversation around economics to place community in the centre

The Makings of an Alternative System through our Response to Covid-19 by Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

Continuation of convening alternative social change system designers and live prototyping the RSA Future Change Framework

Project Lifeline by Rubber Republic Labs

Exploring unusual and empowered responses to COVID-19 to find core shared themes and feelings to unite us

Changing Narratives for the Future of Childhood by Save the Children

Local and national workshops designed to unite across diverse communities to develop a compelling direction for childhood development

Hope In The Heat by Somerset House

Developing coherent future visions with a newly formed Youth Collective about living in the inevitable hotter world

Build Back Better: creating safe, inclusive spaces for women & marginalised groups by UN Women National Committee UK

Redefining public spaces for safety and freedom inspired by the global UN Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces programme

Towards Equitable Futures by Watershed Arts

Challenging standard notions of growth and value to welcome difference and stewardship into the future of communities

Grief and the Emerging Future by Worldwide International Global Solutions

Crossing diverse social backgrounds to discuss loss and expose social inequalities in this time of COVID-19

Outside Voices by Youth Hostel Association

Renewing the value of the outdoors from the point of view of underrepresented voices to shape policy