Futuresphere was originally founded in London in 2013 to respond to what has subsequently been termed ‘poly-crisis’. In the wake of the global financial crisis, the ensuing UK banking crisis and Eurozone debt crisis, as well as the global climate crisis, a group of like-minded professionals believed that corporations, financial institutions and governments had to change how they thought about and understood the future. But ‘day jobs’ took priority; the initiative stalled.

A decade later, the original Futuresphere is not the only thing that has been revealed to have stalled. While time has quieted some of the most vociferous complaints about the wounds of 2008, it has done little to address the structural problems and contradictions that led to the 2008 global financial crisis; action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions has been nugatory and certainly has not kept up with the lofty and pious rhetoric of Paris in 2015 or of national politicians since then.

It all begins with an idea.