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Protopia. Leaning into the Future: How to Change Our World for the Better - ebook
Protopia. Leaning into the Future: How to Change Our World for the Better - ebook
What if the future did not have to be either a perfect utopia or an inevitable dystopia? What if it could simply become a little better every day?
In Protopia: Leaning into the Future, Joanna Erbel presents protopia as a practical alternative to grand visions and catastrophic predictions. Meaningful change, she argues, rarely arrives through a single revolution. It grows gradually through cooperation, care, imagination, experimentation, and small initiatives that can be tested, improved, and shared.
Drawing on examples from urban planning, housing, cooperatives, local currencies, public services, environmental action, and community development, Erbel demonstrates how ideas move from the margins into the mainstream. She explores the power of prototyping, the role of cities as laboratories of innovation, and the importance of neighbourhood networks in building social and economic resilience.
The book also introduces solarpunk as a source of constructive imagination: a way of thinking about the future that acknowledges present crises without surrendering to despair. Instead of waiting for ideal conditions, we can begin with the resources, relationships, and possibilities already around us.
Combining social analysis with inspiring real-world examples, Protopia is an invitation to reclaim our ability to shape the future. It offers a hopeful yet pragmatic approach to change—one rooted not in perfection, but in persistence, cooperation, and the belief that a better world is built step by step.
Ta publikacja spełnia wymagania dostępności zgodnie z dyrektywą EAA.
Spis treści
Foreword: A Walk Along the Horizon
The Present Future
Anything Could Always Go Wrong
The Default City
Introduction: The Future Is Already Here
Time for Change
We Create the Future as We Choose Our Metaphors
The Seeds of a Better Future Germinate Slowly
Description of Chapters
Chapter 1. Between Utopia and Dystopia
The Power of the Story
Imagination Training
Solarpunk: When Goodness Rules
Protopia — Towards a Better Future
Chapter 2. The Power of Small Changes
Touch to Believe — The Power of Prototyping
Choice Architecture — Context Makes a Difference
Focus on the Real
Opening to the Random
Chapter 3. What Drives Innovation?
Pass It On — The Relay of Ideas
From Niche to Mainstream Activities — Compromises and Missed Opportunities
Acting Agile (with Values)
The Economy of Attention
Chapter 4. It Is Cities That Create Innovation
A Porous City and the Power of Diversity
Let Your Body Be Your Guide
The Hybrid Neighbourhood
Innovation as a Public Service
Chapter 5. The Return of Good — Investing in the Future
Local Currencies Build Wealth
Building a Cooperation Ecosystem
Reconstruction Through Cooperatives: The Power of Local Potential
Anchoring the Future in Your Neighbourhood
Chapter 6. Cooperatives as Vehicles for Development
The Solarpunk Cooperative in the Heart of Warsaw
Development Cooperatives — From Participatory Democracy to Economic Democracy
A Fractal Development Model — Working with Local Resources
The Spiral of Resilience — Creating Your Own Gravity
Chapter 7. Here Comes the New
Pride in What Is to Come
Empathic Effectiveness
Community of Interest and Territory
The Future Is Born in Smaller Towns
Acknowledgements
Footnotes
| Kategoria: | Politics |
| Język: | Angielski |
| Zabezpieczenie: |
Watermark
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| ISBN: | 978-1-995773-38-4 |
| Rozmiar pliku: | 2,3 MB |
