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Practice Futuring

A screenshot from an online whiteboard. The futures tool "Causal Layered Analysis" is being used and it is covered with different colored post-it notes. Some can be read, such as "Poor access" and "Not equitable" and Surprise bills."

Dignified Futures

Resources from Hillary's keynote talk at the Dignified Futures conference in Atlanta June 2025.

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Practical dreaming
visions for change

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Were you inspired by the quotations from great thinkers who encourage us to dream of better futures? Me too!

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Six practices for stretching your imagination and building your visionary muscles are here.

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Bi-monthly postings with exercises to practice hopeful futures

Collective visioning and experiential futures blog

Hillary's Publications

Designing Equitable Worlds: Six Orientations to Evoke the Future

by Hillary Carey 

Design Issues (2024) 40 (3): 6–17.

2 / Barriers to long-term visioning

'Lots Of Extra Time and Privilege To Just Dream Of Utopia': Barriers To Long-Term Visioning In Racial Justice Work

by Hillary Carey & Alexandra To

Journal of Futures Studies, Vol. 28 No. 3 March 2024

Podcast interview with José Ramos

Radically hopeful visions: Futuring for institutional
anti-racism work

by Jessica Meharry & Hillary Carey

Futures Journal, Volume 156, February 2024

Communicating Visions for Design: the STOVE Framework

By Hillary Carey & Mia Blume

DMI:Review, 05 June 2023

How we built our experiential future

favorite ideas

Screenshot from Center for Artistic Activism - text reads "How to change minds"
The cover of the book, Freedom Dreams by Robin D G Kelley

We are fans of everyone writing about radical imagination and social dreaming!
Here are some places to dive in.

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Historian and activist Robin D G Kelley writes about how Black Americans have held radical and clear dreams of what freedom looks like.

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Design futurist Stuart Candy builds hyper-realistic, immersive moments of possible futures.

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This organization uses art, joy, humor, and utopia to shift hearts and minds toward better societies.

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Serious depictions of possible futures ignite conversation. Designers Anab Jain and Jon Ardern build provocations for global shifts.

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