Town Anywhere: The Power of Collective Imagining

‘Town Anywhere’ is a participatory process that brings the future to life through collective imagining, time travel, and co-creation. Participants step into possible futures, actively build and rehearse them, then return to the present to harvest insights and learning.

This playful yet powerful approach unlocks creative thinking within communities, supporting them to envision, design, and embody the regenerative futures they long for. By blending imagination with action, Town Anywhere helps communities strengthen resilience, collaboration, and shared purpose.

About the Speakers: Lily Lowe-Myers is a film and theatre creator using creativity to help build a sustainable and nourishing future. A member of Transition Leytonstone since 2022, she brings storytelling to community resilience work. She facilitates activities for the lay-Buddhist network for social transformation, SGI, weaving spiritual values into her artistic practice. Lily is a mother and nature lover, devoted to deepening connection with self, community, and the natural world, and is particularly inspired by the work of Joanna Macy, Rob Hopkins, and Daisaku Ikeda.

Lucy Neal is an artist, writer and co-director of Walking Forest, a ten-year public art work inspired by forest ecology and the undertold stories of women Earth-defenders. A theatre-maker at heart, she was co-founder director of the LIFT Festival (1981-2005) and enjoys creating space for stories that act as a catalyst for change. Active in the Transition movement since 2008, she was co-founder of Transition Town Tooting and author of Playing for Time – Making Art As If the World Mattered. Now in its 2nd edition, the book maps collaborative arts practices and an aesthetics of care in response to the nature and climate crisis. She is a founder ‘declarer’ of Culture Declares Emergency and a director of Forever Fishponds reclaiming flourishing green habitat in Tooting, South West London where she lives.