About

This deck was created by Will Brown, Ally Kingston, and Heather knight.

Our backgrounds span social & environmental justice, design, systems thinking, end of life care, and gardening.

We came together with a shared concern that our dominant culture of western modernity has an aversion to loss, death and decline — processes which are ever more vital and inevitable as our systems transform.

Drawing on the growing field of collective imagination, we sensed a clear preference to imagine the new into being — but a reluctance to do the counter-work of dreaming the dying ‘out of being’.

This toolkit is offered as a provocation and an aid, inviting us to cultivate that space together.


Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Collective Imagination Practice Community for supporting the development of this toolkit.