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IMAGINING 2040 - PATHWAYS TO FLOURISHING FUTURES

IMAGINING 2040 - PATHWAYS TO FLOURISHING FUTURES

著者： Householders' Options to Protect the Environment - HOPE Inc. (Australia)
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This series explores how public imagination could help facilitate citizen-led pathways toward better futures. Imaginative vision once powered major human wellbeing reforms. But in the face of today’s urgent challenges we now have a public imagination deficit. We need more people thinking more imaginatively about flourishing futures and how to achieve them. Join our uplifting guest conversations framed by imaginative questioning. Hear how we can use our imaginations to help co-create futures which could be climate safer, properly nature protected, more socially supportive and economically fair.Householders' Options to Protect the Environment - HOPE Inc. (Australia)
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  • 15. Imagining the futures-building power of video games within an enhanced role for the industry

    15. Imagining the futures-building power of video games within an enhanced role for the industry
    2026/07/20
    GUEST: James Nicholson, Bachelor Fine Art, Film and Television, Bond University (2018) Master of Science; Psychology (University of Sunderland, 2025) In this episode host Andrew Nicholson explores one of the most culturally powerful and creatively ambitious industries on the planet: video gaming. With an estimated 3.6 billion players worldwide in 2026—around 42% of the global population—gaming has become a major arena of storytelling, social connection, artistic experimentation, and community participation.Far from the old stereotypes of mindless escapism or niche hobbyism, today’s video games blend design, psychology, ethics, world‑building, and collective imagination at a scale few other mediums can match. Moreover, they are shaping how billions of people learn, collaborate, problem‑solve, and envision alternative futures. This conversation looks ahead 15 years to consider some of the ways the video games industry could contribute further to the achievement of more climate safe, nature protected, socially supportive and fairer futures for all. Andrew is joined by James Nicholson — games and media researcher, industry consultant, musician, cultural creative, and entrepreneur. James specialises in understanding how entertainment software shapes human behaviour and culture, and how games might now help shape a better world.INTERVIEW TALKING POINTS - with approximate time elapsed FORESHADOW AND EPISODE INTRO - 0.0 GUEST WORK OVERVIEW – 3.50 TIME TRAVEL TO 2040 – 7.48SIGNALS OF THE FUTURE IN 2026 – 17.18TAKING BOLD ACTIONS NOW – 26.14GUEST CLOSING COMMENTS – 32.07HOST CLOSING REFLECTION – 34.52 CLOSING CALL TO ACTION - 37.46CONTACT DETAILS AND END OF EPISODE – 40.39RESOURCES LINKED TO INTERVIEW COMMENTSInitiatives articles, reports, podcasts Games for Good – consultancy portal website focussed on games developed to achieve social impact. Good Game Club Podcast – a new series (from 2025) covering the ‘positive impact that digital play can have on people and planet.’ Playing for the Planet - an alliance that supports the video games industry to act on the environment. UN Environment Programme (UNEP) thought piece by Sam Barratt – chief of youth, education, and advocacy at UNEP. Considers the video games industry's role to play in the climate disruption agenda. Recent academic paper (2025). Literature review on how commercial video games engage with biodiversity and conservation. One conclusion is that much more definitive research on this linkage is needed. The Power of Play (2023) report on some social, mental, and emotional benefits of video game from the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association and Power of Play (2025) report from the Entertainment Software Association.Specific games or initiatives Disco Elysium (2019) a non-traditional role-playing gameFrostpunk (2018) city-building and environment themed survival game Next Level Collaboration (2026) Melbourne, Australia - selected video games for children as a tool to build specific social and collaborative teamwork skills.Papers Please (2013) a game presenting hard moral choices.Other games of interestLongleaf Valley (2023) –a free downloadable game built around biodiversity conservation themes and linked to the funding of substantial, real-world tree planting.Crossing Lines (2024) – short indie game visual novel explores reproductive rights of young women.⁠Are you listening?⁠ (2023) – short indie game visual novel encourages practice of empathic listening skills.GUESTS AND CONTACT DETAILS:GUEST: James NicholsonAUSPICE PARTNER:Householders’ Options to Protect the Environment (HOPE): T: 07 4639 2135 E: office@hopeaustralia.org.au PRODUCTION: (acknowledgement):Produced for HOPE Inc. Australia by Andrew Nicholson. This episode recorded in Toowoomba, S.E. Queensland, Australia on 16th July 2026. Music: James Nicholson WEBSITE Instagram LinkedIn Facebook SpeakPipe - for voicemail
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    41 分
  • 14.Imagining a secure affordable home for everyone who needs one in Queensland by 2040

    14.Imagining a secure affordable home for everyone who needs one in Queensland by 2040
    2026/05/08
    Fiona Caniglia, CEO of housing advocacy NFP Q-SHELTER One of the most urgent and deeply human challenges facing Queensland — and Australia — in 2026: the housing crisis. It’s a crisis touching almost every community. Home ownership is slipping out of reach for younger generations. Rents have surged far beyond wages. Essential workers are being priced out of the very towns and cities they serve. And homelessness is rising at a pace unmatched in decades.As with many interconnected challenges explored across this series, today’s housing crisis is driven by deeper, system‑level forces. In Queensland and across Australia, these include:• decades of under investment in social and affordable housing• population growth and demographic shifts outpacing supply• speculative investment treating housing as a wealth building asset rather than a human right• climate driven displacement and mounting insurance stress• a fragmented planning system spread across multiple agencies without shared long term goalsBut what if we applied the imaginative, future‑focused lens used throughout this podcast series and flipped the script of this urgent challenge? Why not ask quite simply: What if we could house everyone who needs a home in Queensland in the decades ahead?Thankfully, some visionary organisations, policy innovators, and communities have been asking exactly that.One of the most important and longstanding leaders in this space is Q Shelter —Queensland’s peak body for ending homelessness and unmet housing need. Today, they are doing something rare in Australian public policy: setting a bold, long‑term, whole‑of‑system vision to help ensure every Queenslander has a home by 2045.Helping me unpack Q Shelter’s role as an exemplar of visionary advocacy — and what it will take to solve Queensland’s housing crisis — is my inspiring guest, Fiona Caniglia, CEO of Q Shelter. INTERVIEW TALKING POINT SEGMENTS – with approximate time elapsed in minutes. GENERIC INTRODUCTION – 0.00 GUEST FORESHADOWING COMMENTS – 0.36EPISODE INTRODUCTION – 1.09 GUEST SELF INTRODUCTION - WORK IN 2026 –4.39IMAG EXERCISE 1 - TIME TRAVEL TO 2040 - 23.35IMAG EXERCISE 2 - SIGNALS OF THE FUTURE 2026 – 35.28 IMAGEXERCISE 3 - ASSERTIVE ACTIONS IN 2026 – 42.43GUEST WRAP UP COMMENTS – 49.57HOST REFLECTION AND AUDIENCE INVITATION – 52.53END OF EPISODE – 57.14SELECTED RESOURCES LINKED TO INTERVIEW COMMENTS Q-Shelter – the organisation’s ⁠portal website⁠ Rental Increase Limitations or rent caps. Here is a well-considered 2024 research-based article. And this shorter 2023 article from The GuardianThe 2032 Olympic Games event to be held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. A number of researchers including Q-Shelter have pointed to the possible impacts of displacement and homelessness - and the need for well-considered strategic planning in the run up to the event and its aftermath. Q-Shelter – the organisation’s portal website OTHER RESOURCESBook by Henry David Thoreau – American visionary thinker and early environmentalist -Walden: or Life in the Woods (1854). CONCEPTS 'Co-benefits' - regarding housing - research article'More than human' - from an eco philosophy perspectiveWisdom of the Market – a general critique of neoliberal /economic rationalist / laissez-faire economics and its inability to deal with important challenges.Podcast- The Home Front with Anthony Burke. A great Australian podcast series on the housing crisis in this country - and solutions. GUESTS AND CONTACT DETAILS:Fiona Caniglia Email: fiona.cagnilia@qshelter.asn.au T: 07 38315900 AUSPICE PARTNER: Householders’ Options to Protect the Environment :T 07 4639 2135 E office@hopeaustralia.org.au WEB Instagram LinkedIn Facebook - or leave a voice message via SpeakPipe PRODUCTION: Andrew Nicholson. This episode recorded in Toowoomba, S.E. Queensland, Australia on 20th April 2026 Music: James Nicholson .
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    57 分
  • 13. Imagining an integral decision making role for citizens within a national community planning framework for Australia

    13. Imagining an integral decision making role for citizens within a national community planning framework for Australia
    2026/05/06
    GUEST: Dr. Bronwyn Kelly - Australian Community Futures Planning initiative(ACFP)Dr Kelly is one of Australia’s most innovative thinkers on how this country could build fit for purpose, democratic capability for the challenges of the 21st century. Across her books: By 2050, The People’s Constitution, The Public Interest Economy, and in the vision document Australia Together, Dr Kelly has described an ambitious model of collaborative citizen democracy. One of her core insights is that Australia’s traditional, government-centred decision making systems are no longer sufficient for navigating complex problems such as climate disruption risk, growing social inequality, increasing ecological decline, and the threatsto long-term economic security.She argues that only by integrating the public directly into long-range planning — through structured, transparent, participatory frameworks — can Australia generate the kind of joined-up, future-ready strategies these highly challenging times demand.Dr Kelly’s work aligns well with the sort of citizen led, democratic innovation we hope to amplify at IMAG40. And she offers a process by which we can ensure such citizen-led forums operate efficiently - to offer democratically designed plans which will maximise our chances of arriving at the sort of 2040 that Australians have said they want. INTERVIEW TALKING SEGMENTS FOR GUESTS/HOST – with approximate time elapsed in minutes. GENERIC INTRODUCTION – 0.00GUEST FORESHADOWING COMMENTS – 0.36EPISODE INTRODUCTION – 1.19GUEST SELF INTRODUCTION AND WORK IN 2025 – 3.51IMAG EXERCISE 1 - TIME TRAVEL TO 2040 - 17.06IMAG EXERCISE 2 - SIGNALS OF THE FUTURE IN 2025 –25.23IMAG EXERCISE 3 - ASSERTIVE ACTIONS FOR 2025 – 37.15GUEST WRAP UP COMMENTS – 46.38HOST REFLECTION AND AUDIENCE INVITATION – 51.21END OF EPISODE – 57.56 SELECTED RESOURCES LINKED TO INTERVIEW COMMENTS INITIATIVES AND ORGANISATIONS AUSTRALIA The Australian Community Futures Planning initiative(ACFP). Has a portal website on community futures planning. The publications page lists Dr. Kelly’s books and major documents. And her Substack found here.The ACFP’s comprehensive State of Australia (2025) report mentions that the country is ‘not progressing towards a better Australia, we are traveling away from that preferred destination.’The ACFP’s podcast series The Australia Together Podcast is hosted by Dr Kelly Australian Citizen survey research. Some recent examples of background attitudinal trends, and public perception of future threats and risks at a national level. Alongside citizen demands on climate disruption and stronger nature protection laws. Existing examples of Australian, pro-community planning approaches by sub-national government. In Victoria, the Local Government Act (2020) mandated citizen ‘deliberative engagement practice’ for local councils in that State. INTERNATIONALCitizen Juries and Assemblies – a recent short explanatory article (2025) The vTaiwan initiative. An ‘open collaboration platform for public policy, dedicated to promoting dialogue between government and citizens.’ CONCEPTSDeliberative democracy as an improved model of governance. Neoliberalism -some general critique of the neoliberal /economic rationalist / laissez-faire way of running an economyUniversal Basic Income (UBI) Many UBI trials have taken place in a wide diversity of locations including the USA, the UK, India and the PacificGUESTS AND CONTACT DETAILS:Dr Bronwyn Kelly: info@austcfp.com.auWEB: www.austcfp.com.au AUSPICE PARTNER: Householders’ Options to Protect the Environment (HOPE): T 07 4639 2135 E office@hopeaustralia.org.au WEBSITE Instagram LinkedIn Facebook or leave a voice message via SpeakPipePRODUCTION: by Andrew Nicholson. This episode recorded in Toowoomba, S.E. Queensland, Australia on 29th April 2025 Music: James Nicholson or other credited composer.
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    58 分
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