What The Future! was inspired by local responses to fire and flood events in Northern NSW, and the realisation that climate change is a symptom of a more fundamental crisis.

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Humanity faces a widening gap between the logic we use to make sense of the world and the complex, unpredictable consequences of our actions.

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Scholars refer to this as the meta-crisis—an internal limitation that traps us in a loop, weakening our collective capacity to navigate the conditions we create.

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Within this context, the land-share community where we live is planning its future while navigating the day-to-day challenges of people living together with a lot at stake.

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What happens when assumptions about reality itself are examined as an alternative response to the meta-crisis and its litany of symptoms?

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The project documents our journey of inquiry beginning with our own community, travelling to five international locations, and returning to Australia to integrate learnings.

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Telling this story is part of a PhD research project at the University of Technology Sydney funded by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.