What if we futured like the natural world was us?
Rewilding Futures is Dana Klisanin’s emerging transdisciplinary framework for imagining regenerative pathways in a time of ecological, cultural, and technological transformation.
A nature-connected approach to envisioning tomorrow.
Rewilding Futures integrates insights from ecological psychology, futures studies, and regenerative systems thinking.
Rather than approaching the future as a purely technological challenge, this work begins with the rewilding of inner landscapes: values, imagination, perception, attention, and relationship with the living world.
- Regenerative Futures
- Ecological Imagination
- More-Than-Human World
- Reciprocity
- Foresight
- Speculative Design
- Planetary Wellbeing
Rewilding Futures: A Method for Regenerative Imagination
Future-making begins with the relationships we are willing to restore.
Rewilding Futures asks how foresight changes when human beings stop imagining the future from a position of separation and begin from kinship with the living world.
It is a framework for researchers, futurists, artists, educators, leaders, and institutions working to imagine pathways grounded in reciprocity, ecological intelligence, and planetary wellbeing.
Three pathways into the work
Rewild Attention
Restore the sensory, embodied, and relational capacities needed to perceive complexity and notice what dominant systems train us to overlook.
Rewild Imagination
Use story, myth, speculative design, and more-than-human perspectives to expand what can be envisioned, valued, and protected.
Rewild Reciprocity
Move from extractive future-making toward relational, place-aware, and regenerative practices rooted in kinship with the living world.
Explore Rewilding Futures
Rewilding Futures in Practice
Two practical, repeatable protocols—attention and reciprocity—for futuring with the more-than-human world.
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Rewilding Futures
Dana describes the origins of her rewilding research, its core components, and its application within futures studies.
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Rewilding the Imagination
Peter Hayward speaks with Dana about rewilding the psyche, futures, consciousness, and the imagination.
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Rewilding Futures Methodology
A keynote on rewilding futures methodology presented at the Holotopia Festival in Berlin.
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Why Futurists Must Consider Rewilding
An introduction to applying rewilding to futures studies and regenerative imagination.
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BigMane
A speculative thought experiment asking what might happen if a global fast-food system were rewilded.
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Making regenerative futures visible.
Rewilding Futures is not only a theoretical framework. It can also be translated into speculative artifacts, future-facing media, workshops, and design prompts that help people feel the texture of possible worlds.
These artifacts are intended to expand imagination, challenge default assumptions, and invite more relational forms of decision-making.
Rewilding tomorrow begins today.
This work now lives within Dana Klisanin’s broader research and speaking platform as ReWilding: Lab transitions into Terrain. For talks, workshops, writing, or research collaborations, begin here.