About the makers


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


Our backgrounds span social & environmental justice work, 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 & 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 pilot tool aims to provoke us all into occupying that space.

Acknowledgements

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