How to fall in love with the future? with Rob Hopkins

In this inspiring conversation, Morag Gamble speaks with Rob Hopkins - Transition Towns co-founder, author of How to Fall in Love with the Future , and creator of Field Recordings from the Future . Together they explore why imagination is vital for permaculture, community resilience, and regenerative culture , and how anyone can practice imagination activism to create hopeful, practical change. Rob shares stories of playful, community-led projects, his work with sensory futuring, and how cultivating longing rather than fear can mobilise people to act for a thriving future. If you’re a permaculture educator, changemaker, or someone longing for new possibilities, this episode will give you tools and inspiration to nurture imagination in your community. Rob Hopkin's links: Rob Hopkins website: robhopkins.net Book: How to Fall in Love with the Future Record: Field Recordings from the Future Key Themes How imagination fuels permaculture and community design Transition Towns and lessons from grassroots change Inspiration from and for permaculture. Sensory futuring and field recordings from the future Cultivating longing vs. anxiety in movements for change How to make activism joyful, creative, and effective I'd love to hear from you. Text me here. Support the show _____ MORAG GAMBLE Founder, Permaculture Education Institute Morag's Courses Podcast Blog Podcast YouTube : Podcast Instagram Linkedin I am a possibilitarian and I believe in HumanKINDness. In this podcast my guests and I explore How are we to live? Really live, as nature ourselves, tending the conditions where life can thrive. We ask How do we become the kind of humans this moment is asking us to be? This podcast is one of my acts of myceliation. Each conversation is a thread in a vast network of people speaking up for life with love and care. This podcast beams out from my hand-built solar-powered studio in the midst of a permaculture food forest in a permaculture ecovillage on Jinibara and Gubbi Gubbi country. If this episode lights something in you, pass it to one person who needs it. That is how myceliation works.

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How to fall in love with the future? with Rob Hopkins is an episode from Sense-making in a Changing World by Morag Gamble: Permaculture Education Institute.

This episode is 62:17 long.

This episode was published on Sep 19, 2025.

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