Imagination and Embodiment for Futures
The Futures We Create is a project done in collaboration with Andrea Gilly and Savannah Vize.
The project aims to strengthen citizens’ ability to be reflective, critical and hopeful about the future, via the support of creative and imagination practices. We are hosting a series of exploratory workshops to encourage participants to imagine futures in a hopeful yet realistic way.
This project directly addresses the crises of hope and imagination emerging through the uncertainty of the climate crisis and its intersecting societal issues.
What we want to bring to this project
A space of presence and care that acknowledges the complexity of the climate crisis bringing in difficult eco-emotions. A space of hope and joy that uses imagination, future-thinking methods and embodiment practices to shine a light on our inner and collective longing and what is already happening for a renaissance. A space of action that catalyses imaginaries and their felt sense into something tangible today.
Why embodiment practices and imagination?
I am interested in how embodiment practices like movement, somatics and meditation can help rebalance our psychological, emotional and physical state that is present due to the impelling crisis.
If we are in survival mode, we cannot imagine new worlds, our creativity is limited as our ideas are driven by control.
Through my research and experience, I see the body as the deepest leverage and access point for regeneration on all levels to arise. In this project in particular I am curious about how body practices can connect people with their individual and collective longing for the future and how to use longing as a driver for change.
More, I’d love to understand how this connection together with futures thinking methods can foster agency, shift dominant societal narratives, and enable climate action.
First workshop was in collaboration with Elokapina Extinction Rebellion Finland, as part of "Storm Warming" events.
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
— Arundhati Roy