Imagine what's possible...
How could stories from the future change what happens next? Here are some examples of the kind of impact you could have.
A Cornish village divided over a proposed wind farm comes together to imagine stories of the village in 2040 - it shifts the debate, gets everyone bought into an exciting vision they create together with ideas from across the community, and allows the council to secure grant funding for renewable energy options.
A London animal rights charity devising a new 10-year strategy brings out the best ideas of all its staff - by crafting different day-in-the-life stories from 2036 of better protected animals and the people around them. They create different stories for different strategic choices and use them to help decide long-term plans. The charity's strategy is transformed into a living, emotional narrative and the people delivering it are part of it from the beginning.
A Glasgow museum's transport exhibit is reinvigorated by using a 'Travel to Tomorrow' tool generating short, relatable stories set in 2050, like Jamie's Journey - a 12-year-old navigating a city transformed by green infrastructure. Young people record their own stories in response, which are added to the exhibit, school bookings increase by 40%, and the museum wins an award for innovative public engagement.
A Bristol fashion startup struggling to maintain its mission to eliminate low-paid labour works with us to host a staff retreat - employees craft stories from 2035, imagining the daily lives of garment makers, their families and communities. Facilitators help them identify the steps needed to turn their stories into reality in their business.
A UK funder integrates story creation into their application process via a tool allowing applicants to easily create and submit short stories from the future showing the changes their project aims to bring about. It humanises the process for groups applying, and helps the funder move beyond traditional ‘applications’ to see the real impact grants could make.
A national housing think tank turns its technical, policy-heavy report into a series of engaging and interactive stories from the future - showing the difference investment in sustainable and socially affordable housing could make. It brings to life their calls for policy change and engages new audiences as people share stories as online videos.
A UN refugee summit collaborates with us to create an immersive experience - where citizens and refugees from different nations create stories from 2040 about people's lives, both positive and negative. These stories are used to shape debates with government officials, moving away from dry technical language, connecting everyone to the urgency and the true realities of being a refugee and a host community.
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