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Hillary Carey

Hillary Carey

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May 16

The persistence and dissemination of shared visions

Shared visions are not ephemeral byproducts of workshops. They have the potential to be durable civic artifacts that contribute to how a…

A screenshot of an acadmic paper titled: What happens to shared visions? Surveying the literature for strategies to preserve and disseminate participatory futures

Hillary Carey

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Apr 9

Visions into Strategy

A future vision is not the end of the work. It’s the beginning of a different kind of work.

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Hillary Carey

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Jun 6, 2025

Experiential Futures scaling down

At the Dignified Futures conference on June 3 & 4, 2025, I gave a keynote talk on hopeful futures. Creating visions of inspiring future…

Experiential Futures scaling down

Hillary Carey

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Jul 23, 2024

[Why] Immerse people in positive futures for healthcare

We (the Helios Initiative) are experimenting with what design futures can contribute to conversations around dignified nursing. The nursing…

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Hillary Carey

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Jul 23, 2024

[What] Step into a positive future vision for healthcare

“The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.” — Toni Cade Bambara

[What] Step into a positive future vision for healthcare

Hillary Carey

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May 31, 2024

Resources to learn more about long-term future visions for change

Here are the links and resources I typically recommend at the end of a workshop where people have been introduced to Social Design…

A hot purple background with an image of the Winged Victory sculpture. The text reads: The value of long-term visioning in social change work.

Hillary Carey

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Apr 4, 2024

Tools for shifting problems into hopeful future visions

My social justice work combines the making approaches of design with the long-term thinking of futures studies and utopian theory. And I…

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Hillary Carey

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Sep 6, 2023

Everyday Speculations for Social Change

This post is based on an article I wrote for the European design journal, Temes de Disseny. The article can be found here, with free, open…

Everyday Speculations for Social Change

Hillary Carey

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Feb 17, 2023

What is your theory of change?

The magnificent Indigenous researcher Eve Tuck shines her insights into how we all have theories about how change happens (2009). But these…

A person is drawing with marker on a wall covered in brown paper. She is drawing linked lines and words include “place, impermanence, temporality”

Hillary Carey

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Jun 4, 2022

Advocating for Better Futures: 5 actions to make your vision real

As advocates for social justice, we know that a better world is possible. But many people lose energy and commitment when faced with so…

Call Forth: “By virtue of being born, each of us has the absolute right to live free from violence” — Dream Defenders 2020

Hillary Carey

Hillary Carey

Design + AntiRacism + Long-term Visions | PhD in #TransitionDesign @CarnegieMellonDesign | Coaching & Workshops @JustVisions.Co

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