Livable Futures cultivates creative responses to unpredictability and crisis on a planet in need.

Livability instead of sustainability emphasizes social justice and an ecological ethics recentering who survives and who gets to thrive in our communities—human, biological, and artificial.

Resisting dominant narratives of apocalypse, the projects of Livable Futures foster intention and support participants finding ways into action and well-being. The tactics we offer come directly from the intrinsic practices of artists and make the leap of assuming that art matters and that creativity is a serious and meaningful response to crisis.

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Take time to dwell with climate change today as the UN Climate Talks #COP29 unfold. Consider googling COP29 and see what’s happening and what’s not happening. Give the activists present at the talks your solidarity through your attention
As we pay attention to the UN Climate Talks happening now #COP29 take some time to reflect on how long this has been in your awareness, what are its contours? What is your earliest memory of climate change? PROMPT Sense what remembering feels like
“Seek out ideas and people who nourish and challenge you, and work to increase the amount of time spent listening to historically marginalized voices and to the more-than-human world. By doing this your life changes, your perception, your assum
“If you are not already doing or supporting strategic organizing, community building, and/or direct action, it’s time to actively grow your personal resilience to unfreeze and get into action. So you can find your place in the movement fo
**New offering on our Substack, join us by subscribing today** Resilience Redefined The election in the U.S. and acts of violence near and far have many of us on edge, teetering near tumbling. Waiting for peace. Waiting for relief. This all has us
In addition to making art in our Livable Futures community we have a shared practice of reflecting on works of art by BIPOC artists and asking how they might teach us about livability. Sustaining Practices: This kind of viewing moves beyond whether
Introducing Natasha Woods! Natasha is one of our wonderful Livable Future collaborators. Natasha shares, “Care is central to my idea of a livable future. I dream of a world that is more relational—to each other, to ourselves, to the plan

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Learning from Pawpaw to Live in Diaspora
Learning from Pawpaw to Live in Diaspora
Reflective Visual Journaling
Reflective Visual Journaling
Mapping the Unseen
Mapping the Unseen
Toward an Expansive Solitude
Toward an Expansive Solitude
What is the palpable sense of feral fringe?
What is the palpable sense of feral fringe?
SEEDS: An Approach to Earth-Centered Design Education
SEEDS: An Approach to Earth-Centered Design Education

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