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How to be a Playful Imagination Activist with Rob Hopkins
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 01:02:17
Publish Date: 2025-09-19 00:00:00
Description:

What does it mean to be an imagination activist? In this inspiring conversation, Morag Gamble speaks with Rob Hopkins - Transition Towns co-founder, author of How to Fall in Love with the Future, and creator of Field Recordings from the Future.

Together they explore why imagination is vital for permaculture, community resilience, and regenerative culture, and how anyone can practice imagination activism to create hopeful, practical change.

Rob shares stories of playful, community-led projects, his work with sensory futuring, and how cultivating longing rather than fear can mobilise people to act for a thriving future.

If you’re a permaculture educator, changemaker, or someone longing for new possibilities, this episode will give you tools and inspiration to nurture imagination in your community.

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Key Themes

  • What is imagination activism?
  • How imagination fuels permaculture and community design
  • Transition Towns and lessons from grassroots change
  • Inspiration from and for permaculture.
  • Sensory futuring and field recordings from the future
  • Cultivating longing vs. anxiety in movements for change
  • How to make activism joyful, creative, and effective

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