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Rob Hopkins

Rob Hopkins is the cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network. He is a serial blogger, and author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff , The Transition Handbook and The Transition Companion. He has been awarded a PhD by the University of Plymouth and an Honorary Doctorate by the University of the West of England. In 2012 he was voted one of the Independent's top 100 environmentalists and one of ‘Britain’s 50 New Radicals’. He is an Ashoka Fellow, a keen gardener and one of the founders of New Lion Brewery in Totnes and a Director of Atmos Totnes, a very ambitious community-led development project.

Light Posting 8th to 22nd October

By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org

Due to editorial holiday, there will be light posting from 8th to 22nd October. Regular posting will resume on the 23rd.

  • October 5, 2018
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Stephen Duncombe on Imagination, Spectacle and Desire

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

I loved the book’s assertion that “unless progressives acknowledge and accept a politics of imagination, desire and spectacle, and, most important, make it ethical and make it our own, we will bring about our “ruin rather than preservation”.

  • October 1, 2018
K

‘The Creativity Crisis’

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

If climate change is anything, it must be the greatest failure  of the imagination in the history of the world.  Perhaps K’s paper might offer some illumination as to why our response isn’t happening fast enough?

  • September 24, 2018
Totnes passport

When Imagination Meets Brexit: the Story of the Totnes Passport

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

One of the highlights of my summer was collecting my Totnes Passport.  The whole Brexit debacle from inception to its current state of woeful ineptitude and brazen jingoism has been one entirely bereft of imagination. 

  • September 11, 2018
Play

Re-engaging Imagination

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

If we’re making political decisions around how we want to exist in the world, then we need to think about the impossible.  And to think about the impossible we need to connect to this place that does not exist within your current state of mind.  This is why play should be a political – to open us up to unknowability.

  • September 7, 2018
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Hilary O’Shaughnessy on the Playable City

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

For us a Playable City is specifically a human-led response to challenges for cities that are using technology in a way that connects people to each other. 

  • July 25, 2018
Stuart Candy

What’s a Professional Futurist?

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

Orwell nailed it in 1984, that who controls the present controls the past, and who controls the past controls the future. 

  • July 5, 2018

P2P, the Commons and the Imagination

By Rob Hopkins, Michel Bauwens, Rob Hopkins blog

We need something like the guilds in the Middle Ages.  We need leagues of cities.  We need leagues of co-ops.  In Fukushima you can’t just say, “I’m going to have a fishing co-op in my village”.  Sometimes you need scale to answer certain issues that can’t be solved at any local level.

  • June 27, 2018
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