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About Imagine The Future Inc - a brief history of this small cultural development organisation, including statement of philosophy, objectives, management team, and key social innovations.

THE ECOVERSITY- a brief outline of one of ITF's major social innovations.

Ecoversity forums - 1992 to 1996. Links to the full programs of ecoversity events and presentations.

What's good urban design? a live ecoversity event at the George Hotel Ballroom, 1996, as Victoria's response to Urban Design in Australia: Report by the Prime Minister's Urban Design Task Force 1994.

Rehabilitating the Danube River - an ecoversity workshop at the Budapest Futures Course, Social Values: Forming New Societies,  Aug-Sept, 2001, Futures Studies Centre, Budapest University of Economic Science and Public Administration.


PUBLICATIONS include the following.
Complex Questions for Futures Studies essay commissoned by Futures journal, UK, on the 17th conference of the World Futures Studies Federation in Brasov, Romania, September 5-9, 2001. 

Cappuccino Papers: papers based on 1993 ecoversity presentations by Tony Dingle, Jim Bowler, Rachel Webster, Jenny Crawford, Alan Roberts, Francis Grey, Robyn Eckersley, Paul James, Tony Love, Laurance Splitter, Lesley-Anne Curran, Mike Zafiropoulos, Malcolm Drysdale, Frank Fisher, Peter Cock, Peter Christoff, Felicity Wishart and Helen Rosenbaum. Published as Cappuccino Papers No 1. in 1995.

The Power of Positive Imaginings - presentation by Merrill Findlay, to the Altona Sustainable Development Congress, July 26, 1994.

Imagining Imagine The Future - article from Habitat Australia, April 1993, about the foundation of Imagine The Future Inc.

Building the world's first Ecoversity - outlining the construction of the Ecoversity in the Australian Conservation Foundation building, 340 Gore Street, Fitzroy, in Melbourne.

Seed funding at last - ITF's first financial sponsor.

Intervening in East Timor's future- the famous twelve week season of Ecoversity forums in 1992, with reference to the East Timorese Youth Ambassador Program, which culminated in a tour of North America in 1993.

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Re-imagining your neighbourhood- Imagine The Future's schools-based futures education initiative piloted in Sunshine, western Melbourne.

Re-imagining your neighbourhood: a proposal - by Carmen Stewart, outlining 'Re-imagining Sunshine', and later development of ITF's futures education concept.

Young people and the future: a futures education model - abstract and full text of a research paper by project coordinator, Carmen Stewart.

The Poles Project, a report on a cultural development project in Sunshine by Carmen Stewart.

Redreaming the plains: ITF's on-going cultural development and futures R&D project in four stages (so far), incorporating Painting the future real, 1996. Archive pages of the 1996 project are now re-published on this site.

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