Redreaming Australia: an introduction

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Redreaming Australia: an introduction This special issue of Futures, Redreaming Australia, celebrates the rather fuzzy fifteenth anniversary of Imagine The Future Inc.[1], a very small yet influential project-based cultural development and ‘applied futures’ organisation I founded in Melbourne, Australia. ITF was conceived and developed when sustainability discourses were being institutionalised after the adoption of the Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development by the United Nations in 1987, so it embodies the spirit of these times. The essays in this special issue reflect the values the organisation was founded upon and our collective ‘dream’ of “a society in which we live more harmoniously with ourselves, with one another and with our 'natural' environment” [2].

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تاریخ انتشار 2005