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On World Futures Day, how can you change the bloody boring disaster story you still think you’re in? By bringing alive a different experience of the whole thing for the people around you – and an explosive way to spark a new season of life-affirming creative energy is with the inspiring and objectively awesome one-person live show by Momo.

The end of the world seems endless, doesn't it? But if the whole thing is just a story we keep telling ourselves and our voters, why can't we just… change it?

Well, how creative are you feeling, on your own?

“Society discourages people from recognising their creativity” wrote Samar Shams, citing the industrial revolution’s historically joyful demand for millions of low-level specialists. Often literally low level – children cotton scavenging in mills, am I right?

That may have turned into a techtopian, space age, tin foil hat and hotpants view of tomorrow by the middle of the last century, but it still secretly banked on everyone staying in their little quantifiable boxes.?

Today, all the little boxes of our globalised worldview aren’t simply opening, they’re collapsing and leaking asbestos, blown away by extreme weather, swept off the surging deck of the container ship or sold off to absent asset collectors. And it now all looks to billions of digitally networked human brains like there IS no tomorrow any more.

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Lindsay Hooper points out that this is not just a looming your business problem – it’s a what the hell are voters going to do problem. This is a massive year for global elections, and lots of less-than-forward thinkers are standing on those ballots. The Interim CEO of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, Hooper is emphatic that we need a new breed of leader – as I would put it, ones with some bloody vision.

“The leaders elected this year can either navigate a pathway through this quagmire or deepen the divisions. They can opt to ignore the science, pursue populist or nationalistic agendas that fuel divisions within and between nations, and placate those with vested interests in maintaining the status quo, or they can articulate a positive vision for the future, while also levelling with citizens on what it will take to achieve it – and involving them in the process of doing so.”

Which is all bluntly true. But also, who is going to do this?

Environmental writer Isabelle Drury spoke for so many of us this week when she said from the gut: “I am failing at this community thing.”

On World Futures Day and the first day of a spring in the northern hem, how can we inject something different into the mix of our ambitions to change where we each are?

How about by putting where we currently are into a different context? A much more creative one.

Worlding and futuring.

According to The Millennium Project and little fleet of other future thinking organisations, March 1st is World Futures Day. A nearly thirty year old think tank, it’s in amongst some well established forecast and trend analysis approaches and wants to encourage a 24hour “global conversation about our possible futures”.

I’m here for it, obviously. But in the general thrust of such work, alongside most podcasty chatter about futures, I personally feel the need to answer two challenges with my own response – a way for many more of us raised by The West to hear a different framing of why the world is the way it is, and a lot more silliness.

My research cast Unsee The Future grew out of these instincts – and I’ve turned it into a live show.

This year I am taking the show on the road.?

From the Sustainable Development Goals, out into wider themes of our cultural era of crisis and transition, UTF has helped me get my head around some big ideas and meet some fascinating people already out there trying to implement them. As an art-minded bloke, it’s also given me a portable nuclear reactor of power in the belly to put that creative thinking right into the heart of how we tackle all the biggest challenges – because creativity in our storytelling about possible tomorrows is singularly missing STILL.

This may be changing, with signals from Hollywood about more climate related stories at least making it onto big and small screens soon. And leaders shifting in little signs of admitting the need for a little creative help in dealing with it all.

But this particular show is an energising shake up of the status quo you’ve known. A reframe as irreverent as challenging as, I do hope above all, encouraging. Part sort of Netflix special, part comedy club preach, part intergalactic Open University radio show, The future is f****ed. So what? tells three stories of us lot – of the ancient world, of the modern world and of tomorrow’s world. A simple shake-out experience for developing new leadership thinking, just when we need it.

Positive visions of the future may have been quietly shelved, buried, put away by politicians and some CEOs around the world – but the unbelievable opportunities wrapped up with the era of crisis and transition are awaiting creative thinkers and commissioners.

All it takes to start a new season is seeing things with fresh eyes.

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