Write Yourself a Letter from a Sustainable Future

Community Relations

Write yourself today a letter from yourself in the future Ref: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, « Evidence »
Sustainability is increasingly framed as a battle of imagination (Brown, 2016). That our ability to enter a new paradigm, or a new story of humanity, one where humans and non humans can thrive together on a healthy planet, depends on our capacity to imagine new ways of being in relationship with the world around us.
For this assigment, you are asked to practice that skill of imagination. Write yourself a letter from a sustainable future as you imagine it. In the letter, you should describe this sustainable world as you see it. The letter should be
Here are some examples of themes and questions that could be explored: • Community relations: how do people live together and form communities? • How do communities manage resources? • What is a family? How are children raised? • Food: what is your relationship to it, where do you get it, how is it produced? • How does technology support the health of people and of the planet? • What do people share, and how? • What does it mean to be Indigenous in a sustainable world? • How do you work? What do you do? • How is diversity leveraged as a strength for the health of communities and of the planet? • What is the role of art?