Rob Hopkins

It is a joy to be asked to write a foreword for this delightful book. Having written most of the early published books about Transition, it is to be greatly celebrated that other voices are now stepping in and sharing their insights, learnings, and perspectives on Transition concepts, and hopefully there will be many more.

I recently spoke at an event organised by Transition Town Brixton as the opening event in their ‘Spaces of Hope’ series. I thought you might like to see it. Such a dynamic audience and lively event. I hope you enjoy it. 

Due to popular demand, we have had a limited run of copies of the ‘Ministry of Imagination Manifesto‘ printed, just 200 copies, and they’ll sell fast. Don’t miss out. Order them as gifts for policymakers you might know. Order one to give your own imagination a treat. In full colour, beautifully printed, you don’t want […]

Last weekend Transition Network held an online event called the Day of Transition Practice. As part of it, I was asked to give a short talk about the narrative of Transition, and how it’s changed over time. So here is an edited version of the video I made of that talk (I was travelling and couldn’t do it live) and also the full written version

And so ‘The Ministry of Imagination Manifesto: an imagination-based manifesto for times that need one’ was born. We’ve painstakingly edited together all the policies, under subject headings, and the whole thing has been beautifully designed by Capella Andrean of The Creative Bloc. You can download it here. Please share it far and wide. Send it to any policy-makers or politicians you know. Post it anywhere you can. Don’t let the possible be constrained by the imaginative poverty of our current manifesto writers.

Last week I was with the entire staff team of Climact in Brussels running an imagination workshop with them, which was such fun. We made potato creatures (the first time I’ve ever had potato creatures partly composed of snowballs), time travelled, played ‘Yes, But/Yes, And, had a Walk of What If. worked up some great ready-to-go transformational ideas, before eating together and having a music quiz to which I knew the answers to nothing at all.

Last month, the River Exe came alive with song, night swimming, stories and a wild salmon run for the first Festival of the River Exe. Transition co-founder Rob Hopkins hears about the three Transition groups who collaborated to protect, restore and celebrate their local river, harnessing public outrage at the state of our water and transforming it into local action [originally published at Transition Together].

A couple of weeks ago I was in Paris to speak at the wonderful ChangeNOW event. Here is the film of the talk I gave, on the stage with the most stunning backdrop I’ve ever spoken on, as well as being the hottest stage I ever spoke on! I hope you enjoy it.  

Our four day immersion in London Transition activities started on Thursday evening at the Doreen Bazell Hall, a Tenants and Residents Association (TRA) Hall on the Goldington Estate in Camden, to visit one of the weekly meetings of Camden Think and Do, an initiative created between Camden Council and Transition Kentish Town.

I was recently in Lancaster to run an afternoon workshop for Lancaster Food Futures, which was a lot of fun. About 70 people came and took part. Nina Osswald of Closing Loops was there and she took some beautiful photos of the day. Rather than write up what we did, I’m just going to share her photos to give you a flavour of what people coming together to fire up their imagination can look like in action…