Introducing my new book!
Designing Hope: Visions to Shape Our Future is available to preorder now
I’m really pleased to tell you that my new book, Designing Hope: Visions to Shape Our Future, will be published by The Indigo Press this September!
The book explores four futures that are being actively envisioned and grown today - More-than-human, Degrowth, Solarpunk and Metaverse - and gives readers a host of ideas and tools to use to think about futures, evaluate them, and start to bring them into being.
I firmly believe that the more people think about futures, the better our collective futures will be. And I believe everyone can do it.
With that in mind, the book’s aim is to be accessible, inspiring, and interactive. It’s suitable for beginners and those who are more experienced in futures thinking. I want it to introduce possibility, inspire change, and encourage critical thinking. And as the title declares, it is hopeful. Early readers have described it as an energising read - and as Bill McKibben says in his very generous cover quote, it should fire up your imagination.
You can preorder Designing Hope from Waterstones here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/designing-hope/sarah-housley/9781911648970
If you preorder it, thank you so much for your support! Every preorder sends a signal to bookshops that people are interested in this book and they should support and promote it, for example by ordering more copies, putting it in their window, or featuring it in-store. All of that will help the book to reach more people, which will in turn make more people into futures thinkers.
I very much appreciate the belief that the team at The Indigo Press have in Designing Hope, and I’ll be sharing updates in this newsletter as we get closer to publication date.
Lastly, I’m a big enthusiast of book cover design - I consider it a vastly underappreciated art - and one of the great pleasures of this process was always going to be seeing the cover. Luke Bird, one of the best cover designers in the business, created the cover for Designing Hope and I’m thrilled with the result. The cover art is by Victor Arce.
As always, thank you for reading.
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