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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.

Clodagh Harris

Clodagh Harris on How Citizens’ Assemblies Rekindle the Imagination

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

Citizens Assemblies are a powerful tool for hearing the thoughts of a population without the filter of political interference, lack of understanding, and the polarity that has been driven by social media and surveillance capitalism. But what are they, and how might Citizens Assemblies be a vital tool for creating the spaces that allow imagination back into our public life?

  • February 14, 2019
The Sultans Elephant

Helen Marriage on The Sultan’s Elephant and Large Acts of Public Imagination

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

We took everybody on a journey that said the arts too have their place in the life of a city, and that the city doesn’t just have to be about shopping and traffic, that it’s as important for people collectively to share these moments, moments like this, as it is for them to share or to experience moments in their own life.

  • January 31, 2019
Dragons

Alexandra Rowland on Hopepunk, Grimdark, Story and Imagination

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

Hopepunk is about fighting for a better future and taking action and doing radical kindness. A lot of times people want to soften it, and think that it is about fluffy self-care, and that’s certainly a part of it, but I want to emphasise that ‘punk’ is the operative half of the word hopepunk. It’s about actively taking action...

  • January 14, 2019
zero-carbon future

James McKay, the Man who Draws the Future.

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

As soon as you have even just a rough sketch of something that’s optimistic, you then have something that people can react to, the visions can be tremendously powerful in terms of motivating people to make some real changes ...

  • January 8, 2019
Ruth Sapsed

Ruth Sapsed on Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

We’ll talk about children leading.  That doesn’t mean that we don’t do anything.  That means that we’re trying to listen to what they are interested in and come alongside them with those interests.

  • December 7, 2018
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