Dignified Futures
Resources from Hillary's keynote talk at the Dignified Futures conference in Atlanta June 2025.
Practical dreaming
visions for change
Were you inspired by the quotations from great thinkers who encourage us to dream of better futures? Me too!
Six practices for stretching your imagination and building your visionary muscles are here.
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
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
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
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.