Community inspirations
Societal Innovation

The “Positive future” prize

The Positive Future Prize will recognize the best productions presenting realistic visions of a desirable future. The objective of this competition, open to all, is to give the initiatives carried by Positive Future international visibility and appeal, and to promote exchanges and collaboration between diverse participants such as artists, entrepreneurs, prospectivists, researchers, students and other citizens.

Learn More »
February 22, 2021 No Comments
Positive Cartography

Netherlands in 100 years

Imagine what the world could look like, if we start shaping it from a nature-based perspective today.  What will the Netherlands look like in a hundred years’ time when you look at climate change, urbanization, biodiversity,  rising sea levels and increasing food production? Wageningen University & Research has drawn up a positive vision for 2021.

Learn More »
February 5, 2021 No Comments
4 generations

Kids have a Dream

Flashback to the inspiring “Kids Have a Dream” project, now almost a decade ago, when over 3000 children in 23 countries where invited to draw up and share their dreams. Using nothing more than paper and pencils. Kids have a dream. Do you?

Learn More »
January 31, 2021 No Comments
Climate Resilience

2100 Foundation

Focused on global challenges and experienced in long-term foresight and multidisciplinary analysis of societies, the 2100 Foundation plans to fulfill an essential function on the international scene.

Learn More »
January 30, 2021 No Comments

NL 2120 – this is what the Netherlands could look like in 100 years

Imagine what the world could like, if we start shaping it from a nature-based perspective today. This is an integral vision in that it considers the spatial planning of the Netherlands in 2120 from various perspectives, such as agriculture, biodiversity, sustainable energy, water and the circular economy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzZF9qVZZhQ&feature=youtu.be Climate change, urbanisation, biodiversity, rising sea levels,

Learn More »
January 26, 2021 No Comments

Futures Literacy

Futures Literacy is an essential competency for the 21st century. https://en.unesco.org/futuresliteracy/about According to UNESCO, “Futures Literacy, a universally accessible skill that builds on the innate human capacity to imagine the future, offers a clear, field tested solution to poverty-of-the-imagination.” Since 2012 UNESCO, in its role as a global laboratory of ideas, has demonstrated that people

Learn More »
January 18, 2021 No Comments

Children create the future

Children and Maps These kids are making a map. It’s one way of learning how to understand their world. There are messages here, and much to be learned – also about the past and the future. Telling stories Together Children are telling stories about their world here. What does this say about the futures they

Learn More »
January 14, 2021 No Comments
Uncategorized

The Sky Scenario

The Sky scenario illustrates a technically possible, but challenging pathway for society to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. Sky builds on previous Shell scenarios publications and is our most optimistic scenario in terms of climate outcomes.

Learn More »
October 30, 2020 No Comments

Reasons to be Cheerful

Reasons to be Cheerful is a non-profit editorial project that is tonic for tumultuous times.

We tell stories that reveal that there are, in fact, a surprising number of reasons to feel cheerful.

Learn More »
October 30, 2020 No Comments

50% Hydrogen for Europe: a manifesto

Instead of transporting bulk electricity throughout Europe, a more cost-efficient way would be to transport green hydrogen and have a dual electricity and hydrogen distribution system.

Learn More »
August 11, 2020 No Comments

A positive map of an Education City

The Education City aims to create an educational social system and to build a community that takes responsibility for expressing the uniqueness of the individual, and inviter them to shape the world in which they live.

Learn More »
August 11, 2020 No Comments

Plamanova | revolutionary form of an ideal city

On 7 October 1593, the superintendent of the Venetian Republic founded a revolutionary new kind of settlement: Palmanova. Built ex nihilo according to humanist and military specifications, Palmanova was supposed to be inhabited by self-sustaining merchants, craftsmen, and farmers.

Learn More »
August 11, 2020 No Comments

Utopia by Thomas Moor | 1516

Willigula:”Hand-tinted map of the Island of Utopia from A Fruitful and Pleasant Work of the Best State of a Public Weal, and of the New Isle Called Utopia by Thomas Moore, 1516″,

Learn More »
August 11, 2020 No Comments