Seeding and growing an “imagination infrastructure” from the roots of communities is one way we can close the distance between the global challenges we face and the equitable and regenerative world we know is possible. Through the Emerging Futures Fund, imaginative seeds have been planted across the UK. We’ll share what we’re learning about what’s needed to equip communities to sense, imagine and shape better futures. In the session you’ll get to meet some of the initiatives patterning new hope and showing the power of community-led, collective imagination—with their practices, their rigour, and their creativity.
This session was curated in partnership with the The National Lottery Community Fund.
Iris weaves strategy, creativity and the sacred to build hope and action for the better world she knows is possible. She creates campaigns, stories and spaces that engage both heads and hearts to grapple with the big questions of our time. Iris’s work draws on over 15 years as a campaigner and…
Associate, Centre for Knowledge Equity and Co-founder and Executive Director, Healing Justice London
Farzana (she/her) is a writer, director, cultural producer and award-winning arts educator. She is the Executive Director and Co-founder of Healing Justice London (HJL) Her practice works on building community health, repair and self-transformation rooted in disability justice, survivor work and…
Deputy Director, Funding Strategy, The National Lottery Community Fund
Cassie is Deputy Director of Funding Strategy at The National Lottery Community Fund where she’s responsible for Innovation, Policy and Practice, and is also Co-founder of the Point People. She is a Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and has a Policy Fellowship at the Institute…
