Capita Foundation — Artifacts from the Future
I’ve been interested in the work of the Capita Foundation for a few years, in part because they’re pretty utopian in their thinking. I want to highlight their work on creatively imagining different ways we might flourish in the future. In their Forecast Foundations for Flourishing Futures, Capita provides several “artifacts from the future” to illustrate how we might reorganize our lives for the better in response to some of the intense challenges we face (e.g., economic limits, climate change).
I love the idea of providing artifacts from the future. This is exactly the kind of utopian thinking I’ve been craving, because it takes seriously the need to 1) question fundamental assumptions about what it means to live well, and 2) provide concrete scenarios for what it might be like to live differently.
One artifact I’m particularly interested in is the “Co-parenting Agreement: The New Blended Family.” This agreement is a contract between a married same-sex couple, a cohabiting heterosexual couple, and a friend. They all enter into a contractual agreement to raise two children together. Two households, five adults, and four children become a family that is legally recognized as such.
