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Imagining new futures: the simple power of story |
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Sunday, 17 February 2008 |
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Stories help us to share knowledge, to work together to meet the uncertainties of change. They give us strength and coherence. But stories also create change. They fire the imagination. We create the future through the stories we imagine. How can we create the future – how can we create anything? -- if we can’t imagine it first?
And we really, seriously, need to create new stories for the future.....
The following article formed the basis for my presentation at the Millennia 2015 conference in Liege, Belgium in March 2008. Theme of the conference was "Women as actors in developing the future", and I decided to explore the role of story and the opportunities that women -- and others -- have to create new stories for the future.
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2020 Summit “a great start” |
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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
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The Rudd Government’s plan to hold a Vision 2020 conference in April is one of the most intelligent moves seen from government for a long time, according to Charles Brass, chairman of The Futures Foundation. “The choices we make today are the choices that create the future,” he said. “ For too long, these choices have been made for the wrong reasons -- for short term gain, and for limited beneficiaries.
"It is encouraging now to see the Federal Government make a positive effort to consider the future more wisely. This conference makes an excellent starting point, but let’s remember that on any map of the future, there be dragons. It would be reassuring to know that the organisers have included this awareness in their planning.”
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 26 June 2008 )
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What is the future worth? |
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Sunday, 27 January 2008 |
Ever wanted to see global literacy become a reality? Extreme poverty
eliminated? All of the world’s children immunised against deadly
diseases? More effort made to fight AIDS, especially in Africa?
According to calculations by Harvard’s Linda Bilmes and Nobel economist
Joseph Stiglitz, the USA could have done all that and much, much more
with the estimated $2 trillion it cost to attack Iraq and to deal with
the consequences at home and away.
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