Visioning for community groups
This introductory page brings together useful information for community agency networks (CANs) and community groups involved in climate, environment and other sustainability projects interested in visioning exercises or projects. These can be part of a wider programme or project cycle comprising also action and review, or evaluation stages.
News
A Global Citizens’ Assembly is coming in late 2025—aiming at 10 million global citizens taking part in deliberations about the planet, Daily Alternative (Oct 16, 2024) - “Sing Wild Seeds”, guided by Brian Eno, invites songwriters and musicians to become social futurists with their skills. First gig? Glastonbury, Daily Alternative (Jul 11, 2024)
- “What if you could create a physical place in every community where people can gather and turn to one another in the event of a crisis?” To the Lifehouse!, Daily Alternative (Jul 10, 2024)
Video
Events
Dec 12, 2025 (Fri) — Inheritance Day, celebrated annually on December 12th, invites us to envision that we are 150 years in the future, and humans have figured out how to live in harmony with each other and the planet. We sit down to dinner with our families, both birth and chosen, and celebrate the incredible achievements that our ancestors worked so hard for!
Community action projects
- visioning exercises or workshops, as part of a wider process of Community involvement
- run a community visioning exercise. Examples include: Town Anywhere, Pop Up Tomorrow, and Camden's Pop-up Think & Do community space for climate and eco action
How to's
- What If Visioning Exercise wider community version 2021, Nov 2020, transitionnetwork.org
- Pop Up Tomorrow
Quotes
"Vision is the work of our imagination, a resource that every single person is born with." Future Democracy Hub
"Futures work can help stretch our imagination by considering what is desirable, what is plausible, and what should be avoided."
"As one essay in the collection argues, it is better to think about the future than not; that in itself is democratising." Tom Symons, Nesta...media.nesta.org.uk"For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create." Albert Einstein
"Vision without action is a daydream, action without vision is a nightmare." Japanese proverb
“The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.” Murray Bookchin
External links
- "Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary" (AUF, 2019). NEW BOOK edited by Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria and Alberto Acosta. Download full ebook for free (PDF). License: Creative Commons academia.edu
Near you
Ecuador - Peru - Australia - Belgium - Denmark - Europe - UK - New York City - Slovenia - Canada - United States - Washington
Visions on Topic pages
Climate action - Community involvement - Road safety
Visions on Resource pages
Citizens data initiative - Transition Network - Commons
See also: Italy, Office for Civic Imagination, Bologna, The Future We Deserve
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Phil Green (2019–2025). "Visioning for community groups". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025. |