Cassie Robinson

Practices for Transitions in a Time Between Worlds There is no manual for living through our wildly unpredictable times. How do we imagine, prepare for, and shape an unknown future? Who do we need to be or become? Instead of a road map, we offer this supplement to illuminate inquiries, capacities, and practices that we believe can open consequential new pathways to a better tomorrow. Sponsored by Joseph Rowntree Foundation View the digital edition and download the PDF.

“Today, many things indicate that we are going through a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born. It is as if something were crumbling, decaying, and exhausting itself, while something else, still indistinct, were arising from the rubble.”— Václav Havel In these times of cascading crises, the logic of the world as we know it is crumbling, and yet a new logic has yet to emerge.

Last week 12 different foundations from across Europe came together in Brussels for the Philanthropy in Transitions Practice Lab, hosted by Philea and co-led by myself and Jesper Christiansen from Bikubenfonden in Copenhagen. This was the next iteration of the Community of Practice that we’d be running with Philea in 2020/2021 on Imagination, Foresight and Regenerative Futures and feels more necessary than ever.