R:2025 is an extended, fifteen year, creative programme of activities within a flexible framework, constructed from notions around: contemporary; writing in a range of styles, for a variety of purposes; cities and urban living; places, spaces, neighbourhoods and locations; construction of identities; learning and development; wellbeing and flourishing; evidence, research, knowledge and understandings; emergence, complexity, uncertainty and contingency.
The overall driving idea is: To use creative activity to make demonstrable contributions to changing the ways in which people think, behave and interact, in order to better understand social processes and developments; and gain potential for some leverage on a number of shared social issues.
A fuller description follows, including
- A more detailed development prospectus
- a flexible framework which summarises the work is being carried forward
- the range of social issues being thought about and worked on
- a possible change model
- A link to the ThinkingForwards blog, which shows background workings-out
