New Futures: Activities

Continue your journey to our future—at home!

In our Fall 2025 Imagination Sessions, members surfaced eight key values that serve as the foundation for our community’s vision of the future: Belonging, Joy, Care for the Other, Care for the Earth, Engaging Across Differences, Connection, Learning and Curiosity, and Abundance. Learn more about what these values mean here, and see how they’re grounding our imaginations in the at-home activities below!

The Art of Imagination

Mobiles are used in modern art to show us perpetual movement, feats of balance and equilibrium, sensory stimulation, and open-endedness.  Building them requires many of the same things we use to imagine the future: ballast, strategy, connection, movement, flexibility, and perspective. Use art, creativity, and found materials to build a tangible part of a meaningful future. 

Artifacts of the Future

When we try to imagine the future, our brains/hearts often default to the last dystopian movie we’ve seen. Luckily, Future thinking gives us some tools to articulate different worlds.

Artifacts of the Future give us a glimpse of a possible future. What better way to aim for a desired future than to imagine we’re already living in it? See our community’s examples here and create your own to share with us!

What would you say if you could talk to yourself from 50 years in the future? To your children? Parents? Friends? What do you hope the people you love are doing in 2076? Follow our prompts to call our New Futures Hotline and leave a voicemail to or from the future. 

Home is Where we Are

50 years from now, 100 years from now, what does “home” look like? What does every person deserve and need? If we aren’t starting from compromises and concessions: in a thriving future, what does home and housing look like for all people?  

Click here for our exercise to explore what elements make a home, what needs a home should meet, and how systems of housing could look in our desired future. To continue engaging with this topic, join our book club here! 

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