From What If to What Next

About From What If to What Next

If there was ever a time for fresh thinking, for being bold, for being visionary and imaginative – for reimagining everything – this is it. Each episode, writer and Transition Movement founder, Rob Hopkins, invites cutting edge thinkers to visualise a new future. Join us as we ask What If...

Publisher

Rob Hopkins

Category

education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Jul 2020

Latest episode

1 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 105 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   105 - Imandeep Kaur

   Host [Host Name] interviews Imandeep Kaur, Director and Co-Founder of Civic Square, exploring radical imagination and local resilience for climate transition.

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   1 Jul 2026

   104 - Jordan Flaherty

   This month's episode is a conversation with producer Jordan Flaherty about the incredible new Afrofuturist film 'Space to Breathe', of which the promotional material states "Space to Breathe is an Afrofuturist science fiction hybrid documentary, framed with a future where there are no prisons or police. The year is 2070 and Sojourner is a young genderqueer filmmaker who sets out to understand how abolition came to be, through history's archives on the movements of the early 21st Century". See more here. It was a joy to meet him and discuss the film in depth, and in this episode, our Producer Bee Addicott has cut our conversation together with short passages from the film. I'd love to know what you think. It's a film that moved me deeply. Why not organise a screening in your neighbourhood? The film was written by Walidah Imarisha, who appeared in Episode 100 of this podcast.

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   1 May 2026

   103 - Kate Pickett

   Kate Pickett was co-author of the seminal 'The Spirit Level', and she just published her new book 'The Good Society: and how we make it'. 'The Good Society' is an utterly brilliant and compelling vision of what a more equal future fundamentally rooted in care would look like. I can't recommend it highly enough. It draws on a wide array of empirical evidence to bring alive what such a future would be like. It was a huge honour to sit down with Kate to explore some of the themes in the book and where they overlap with the need to boost and build our radical imagination(s). I hope you love this conversation, do let me know what you think.

Inside a recent episode

105 - Imandeep Kaur

Published 1 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And that is by displacing, extracting, gentrifying, so on and so on. And so I find it like this really interesting site of possibility to say, well, what would you be doing if that if you were building public infrastructure, housing spaces at the heart of our neighbourhoods that was more in line with the ideas, for example, that our ancestors and indigenous folk across the world who are land keepers, land protectors would tell us, what would you be doing if Kate Raworth's Donut Economics was off the pages and in practice? What stories about this site? And then what happens is you start to unbundle Like, oh, OK, there's a relationship with the land and how it is governed and how it then how the site is financed, how it is built, the materials that you use. […]

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