Anab Jain – Rewilding Our Imaginations

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“We need an infrastructure that deepens our spiritual connection to the world – a spiritual infrastructure.”

Filmmaker, designer and futurist Anab Jain (she/her) wants us to keep asking ”what if”. How might we flourish by living in a different way than today? You might know her work with the foresight and design studio Superflux from the Venice Biennale, where they created a banquet for 12 different species in 2021. That’s just one example of how we can imagine the future through storytelling. And not just one future but many different possible futures.

Anab introduces two ideas for rewilding our minds and the planet: Expanding the self through interconnectedness, and intergenerational ecological time. A great example of the latter is the ”seven generation stewardship” employed by some indigenous peoples in America. It’s a way of safe-guarding the planet for use at the same (or an even better) rate than now.

Dive into Anab’s inspirational talk that takes us from Bhutan, to London and back again.