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Rob Hopkins

Podcast by Rob Hopkins

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Clodagh Harris on how Citizens' Assemblies rekindle the imagination

Clodagh Harris on how Citizens' Assemblies rekindle the imagination

There’s a lot of talk about Citizen’s Assemblies these days. Some people say, as the UK flounders to try and find a way ... Read more

11 Feb 2019

32mins

Ranked #2

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Kali Akuno on imagination and “the ways we can and must resist”

Kali Akuno on imagination and “the ways we can and must resist”

As one of the co-founders of Cooperation Jackson and Executive Director of the non-profit division of Cooperation Jackso... Read more

13 Nov 2018

46mins

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Eric Holthaus on imagination: "Our brains are constantly being encouraged to give up"

Eric Holthaus on imagination: "Our brains are constantly being encouraged to give up"

Eric Holthaus was once called ‘The Rebel Nerd of Meteorology’ by Rolling Stone magazine and is a journalist who writes a... Read more

19 Mar 2018

34mins

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Robert Macfarlane: "the metaphors we use deliver us hope, or they foreclose possibility"

Robert Macfarlane: "the metaphors we use deliver us hope, or they foreclose possibility"

They say you should never meet your heroes. They’re wrong. I recently had the huge honour of spending almost an hour in... Read more

30 May 2018

42mins

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Lise van Susteren on 'Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder' and its impact on the imagination.

Lise van Susteren on 'Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder' and its impact on the imagination.

A while ago I was reading a report about the psychological impacts of climate change, and came across the term ‘pre-trau... Read more

23 Apr 2018

31mins

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Sarah Woods on imagination and “the crisis of what comes next”.

Sarah Woods on imagination and “the crisis of what comes next”.

If it is true that we are living through a time in which our collective imagination is increasingly devalued and underno... Read more

5 Mar 2018

17mins

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John McCarthy on the captive imagination

John McCarthy on the captive imagination

John McCarthy on the captive imagination by Rob Hopkins

6 Feb 2018

38mins

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Donna Rose Addis on the hippocampus, the future and brain networks

Donna Rose Addis on the hippocampus, the future and brain networks

As the research stage of the book I am writing on imagination wraps up, it was a real treat recently to chat to Donna Ro... Read more

19 Feb 2018

34mins

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Maggie Jackson on 'Distracted' and the fragmentation of attention

Maggie Jackson on 'Distracted' and the fragmentation of attention

Today we're talking about technology and the fragmentation of attention with Maggie Jackson. After an early career as a ... Read more

16 May 2018

44mins

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David Sax on imagination and the revenge of analog

David Sax on imagination and the revenge of analog

David Sax is a journalist living in Toronto, Canada, and he is the author of the book The Revenge of Analog: Real Things... Read more

30 Apr 2018

28mins

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Hilary O'Shaughnessy on the Playable City

Hilary O'Shaughnessy on the Playable City

What happens when play disappears from our cities?  In a report for the National Trust, Stephen Moss writes "a potential... Read more

23 Jul 2018

17mins

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Dominique Christina on "using the raw material of possible to say all of the urgent things"

Dominique Christina on "using the raw material of possible to say all of the urgent things"

It was such an honour to speak to Dominique Christina.  Her work is remarkable.  Her voice is insistent and fierce and t... Read more

31 Oct 2018

39mins

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Evin O'Riordan on brewing and the imagination

Evin O'Riordan on brewing and the imagination

One of the most fascinating craft breweries in the UK can be found nestled in a series of arches beneath a railway bridg... Read more

12 Feb 2018

48mins

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Stephen Duncombe on imagination, spectacle and desire.

Stephen Duncombe on imagination, spectacle and desire.

One of the best books I read this summer was Stephen Duncombe’s ‘Dream: re-imagining progressive politics in an age of f... Read more

26 Sep 2018

27mins

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Lucy Neal: "imagination is the most important thing in the whole wide world

Lucy Neal: "imagination is the most important thing in the whole wide world

When I started writing what is now called 'From What Is to What If', the first person I spoke to was Lucy Neal. And now,... Read more

18 Mar 2019

51mins

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Kyung Hee Kim on 'The Creativity Crisis'

Kyung Hee Kim on 'The Creativity Crisis'

The initial spark that set me off thinking that I needed to write a book about imagination was reading a study by a prof... Read more

21 Sep 2018

46mins

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Jackie Andrade and Jon May on imagination, lemons and Functional Imagery Training

Jackie Andrade and Jon May on imagination, lemons and Functional Imagery Training

Welcome to our last blog of 2018.  I'd like to thank you for joining me on this journey over the year and for your suppo... Read more

18 Dec 2018

47mins

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Daniel Raven Ellison on “what if London were a National Park City?”

Daniel Raven Ellison on “what if London were a National Park City?”

This is a website about the power of “what if?”, and how, in a time of existential challenges, we might take “what if?” ... Read more

6 Apr 2018

37mins

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Dawn Chorus 2018

Dawn Chorus 2018

I went to the Soundart Radio SoundCamp's dawn chorus walk this morning (6th May 2018). Here's how the dawn chorus sound... Read more

6 May 2018

55mins

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Gabriella Gomez-Mont: “Imagination is not a luxury"

Gabriella Gomez-Mont: “Imagination is not a luxury"

A question that has arisen in my research around imagination and also in the recent interview I did with Stuart Candy wa... Read more

3 Oct 2018

1hr 13mins

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