2458 deu 239 242 342 2024 bookpart 0 -- -- -- Imagining, designing and teaching regenerative futures is challenging. Educators often lack approaches that allow them to address the complexities of global challenges through new narratives, which make space for the imagination of desirable futures. Commonly in education, we retell the story of an apocalyptic future when speaking about global challenges such as biodiversity degradation and climate change. This narrative, which focuses on the risks and dangers of global environmental change, is built on the assumption that the induced fear might lead to action. This toolkit supports educators who wish to follow a different route. It is based on the assumption that “we can’t create what we cannot imagine” (quote by Lucile Clifton). Consequently, imagining, designing, and teaching regenerative futures is the basis and starting point for actualizing them. The beginning of fundamental change is often hard to track because it first takes place in our minds. Visible, large-scale change arises from invisible, wild ideas and imaginations. According to the philosopher and educator John Dewey, imagination is “the ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise”. This ability to ask “what if?” is central to envisioning and enacting better lives. The lack of broad-scale action towards regenerative ways of living can be seen as a lack of imagination to create shared visions of an alternative future. Collectively envisioning desirable futures provides the motivation and guidance for change, or as the poet Rainer Maria Rilke put it: “the future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.” This toolkit introduces a broad variety of creative and arts-based methods for regeneration and transformation that can be used in various educational settings. It harnesses the power of creative and arts-based practices, which are increasingly seen as a means of expanding future imaginaries and supporting the development of new scenarios of transformative change. The toolkit was developed within the COST Action SHiFT Social Sciences and Humanities for social transformation and climate change as an initiative of Working Group 3: Creative Practices and Outreach. It comprises a selection of 68 creative methods brought together in a collaborative effort by 124 authors from 31 countries and 6 continents. Its intention is to comprise a valuable resource for educators, teachers, lecturers, community workers, and change-makers who are aiming to empower their learners while providing competencies in regenerative design, climate action, futures thinking, human-nature connection, wellbeing and community engagement. This toolkit is more than a collection of methods but a call to action and a comprehensive resource developed through the synergistic efforts of contributors worldwide. Creative Methods Toolkid For Imagining, Designing and Teaching Regenerative Futures 978-972-9347-64-1 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14000111 ja publish false false Sabrina Schork Bentz Julia Trajković Jelena Ristić deu swd Hochschulunterricht deu swd Nachhaltigkeit Institut für Management und Leadership Business Transformation and Innovation Management