New Constellations

By: New Constellations
  • Summary

  • For millennia, across cultures and continents, we have looked to the stars to navigate when we are lost. In this era of transformation, in which everything is in flux, we are locked onto old stars that are pulling us in a perilous direction. We need to discover new possibilities, and reset our course. New Constellations exists to help people imagine and create better, more beautiful futures; futures in which humanity and the planet flourish together. We invite you to meet and journey with some of the many pioneering people and communities whose thinking, work and practice shines light on the way ahead. Join us and learn more at https://newconstellations.co/
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Episodes
  • Bill Sharpe: patterning hope
    Mar 30 2021

    Bill is a futures thinker who had a career as a research manager in the computer industry before he and his colleagues came up with the Three Horizons framework (one of the most useful models to consider how to move from an ailing system to an emerging one). He lives in Wales where the glacial valleys and cragged tops are his laboratory for exploring how we connect our inner and outer knowledge for the benefit of humanity and our planet. We make a truth in how we live a life, he says. He shows us how to pattern hope through the simple means of awakening our awareness to the qualities of being and of being together in life.

    Made by Jo Barratt with Gemma Mortensen, Iris Andrews and Lily Piachaud.

    Music is made for New Constellations by Art School Girlfriend.

    Discover more at http://newconstellations.co/, and join us on Instagram and Twitter @newconstells

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    18 mins
  • Margaret Levi: swimming, flashing octopi
    Mar 30 2021

    Margaret twinkles, the sparkle of a full life exploring her two passions: political science, for which she is famed, and Aboriginal art. Growing up in Baltimore in the 1960s, Margaret was taken on civil rights marches as a young girl and she is still marching now. Margaret shows us how we are living through the declining years of neoliberalism. It is time to bring a new political and economic system into being, she says, as she explores what it would take to build one that ensures wellbeing for all.

    Made by Jo Barratt. Conceived by Jo Barratt and Gemma Mortensen, with Iris Andrews and Lily Piachaud.

    Music is made for New Constellations by Art School Girlfriend.

    Discover more at http://newconstellations.co/, and join us on Instagram and Twitter @newconstells

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    30 mins
  • Lonnie G. Bunch III: I am the hope of the enslaved
    Mar 30 2021

    Lonnie carries the deep well of history in his sparkling eyes and the deep resonance of his voice. He uses history as a tool to give us a fuller picture of who we are so that we can grapple with our past. As founder of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture, Lonnie curated the story of the USA's – and many other countries’ – tortured racial past. He is now the first person of colour to act as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. We have to let this time of change seize us, he says, and be comfortable building on the unknown.

    Made by Jo Barratt. Conceived by Jo Barratt and Gemma Mortensen, with Iris Andrews and Lily Piachaud.

    Music is made for New Constellations by Art School Girlfriend.

    Discover more at http://newconstellations.co/, and join us on Instagram and Twitter @newconstells

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    18 mins

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