Rob Hopkins

This is a write-up of the tour we just finished around Portugal, which I hope captures how it was. It was quite an adventure! May it leave a legacy of renewed energy and momentum and some new tools and practices, as well as new connections between people. 

Here is a beautiful video that tells the story of the ‘Town Anywhere’ activity, designed by Ruth Ben Tovim and which I co-facilitated with her at the event back in August 2024. It captures wonderfully the magic that happens when people are invited to imagine the future and to then physically build it.

On September 12th, I gave a talk at City Hall in Copenhagen which was a rather magical evening. Here is a beautiful video that documents the evening.

I’m delighted to announce that Ruth and I (my first time co-facilitating it) will be putting it on in Bristol on August 29th, 10am-4pm as part of the fabulous Forwards Festival. It’s going to be AMAZING, and spaces are limited. Book your place here. See you there!

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.