Futures Worth Living Into
Creative States champions life-affirming innovation: new visions, products and experiences that awaken our sense of joy, play, wonder, thoughtfulness, authenticity and humanity and help us shape a future that is not only sustained but truly alive.
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What If...
Our ‘What If’ series highlights life-affirming projects and proposes ways to further their impact in the world.
What if our neighborhoods could come alive with green energy?
How Daan Roosegaarde’s ‘Gates of Light’ and ‘Windvogel’ prototype a wondrous path toward a regenerative world.
What if we enlisted kids to help us make the future female AND male?
How Andrew Schlesinger’s GENTLEmen challenges us to reframe the way we teach kids about gender.
It's Time...
Each ‘It’s Time’ editorial dreams up a team of bold thinkers to bring new life to an issue in need of creative reframing.
It’s time we give intolerance a playful kick in the pants.
How the transformative potential of play can help us find new common ground in our civic life.
It’s time we move beyond the call for hope and greatness.
Why Trump’s #MAGA and Obama’s #YesWeCan have kept us in the dark, and how we can begin to feel our way into a bright new #FutureField.
Meet
Conversations with creators and thought leaders about how they foster a greater sense of aliveness.
Anne Quito
The award-winning Quartz design critic on limning injustice with love letters to the world.
Joseph Weissgold
The Head of Invention at Future Laboratories on leading with reverence, and why it’s not what but how you want to be that matters.
Martha Stevenson
World Wildlife Fund’s Director of Forest Strategy & Research on the power of connecting environment to emotion.
Inspire
An evolving collection of life-affirming inspirations to fuel your creative states and awaken your sense of possibility.
An interactive artwork gives us our turn, as adults, to listen to young people’s views about the future wellbeing of the planet.
environment, education 
"Only out of acceptance of the world's terrible pain and its wonderful possibilities can you anchor your vision... anguish is the force through which the world can come closer to being all that it can be."
~ Donella Meadows
