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
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New tools for growing the commons, part 4: what life in a commons town might be like, Dave Darby, growingcommons.substack.com (Jan 25, 2026) - What these Danish activists can teach the rest of the world about fighting climate crisis, theconversation.com (Dec 10, 2025)
- 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)
Video
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Events
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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!, The Terran Collective
Community action projects
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]- What If Visioning Exercise wider community version 2021, Nov 2020, transitionnetwork.org
- Pop Up Tomorrow
Quotes
[edit | edit source]"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
[edit | edit source]Ecuador - Peru - Australia - Belgium - Denmark - Europe - UK - New York City - Slovenia - Canada - United States - Washington
Visions on Topic pages
[edit | edit source]Climate action - Community involvement - Road safety
Visions on Resource pages
[edit | edit source]Citizens data initiative - Transition Network - Commons
See also: Italy, Office for Civic Imagination, Bologna, The Future We Deserve
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| Cite as | Philralph (2019–2025). "Visioning for community groups". Appropedia. Retrieved June 3, 2026. |