Human Futures Magazine Issue 1 2021

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CAN POSITIVE FUTURES BECOME PLACES TO BE

By Hank Kune

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HIS is the story of a Positive Cartography process, and how it was tested during the UNESCO Futures Literacy week in December 2020.

Positive Cartography is about groups and communities envisioning their own desired futures, and creating maps that describe them, using available research, knowledge and forecasts, as well as their own imagination; then adding one additional ingredient – the commitment to assume shared responsibility for helping to make these futures happen. Many people lack positive images of


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