The Long Time Academy

This Long Time Ritual enables you to sense into your unique location in the great web of life. Use it whenever you’d like to drop into longer, deeper time.  You’ll need a small object that represents the long time for you. It could be a pebble, an acorn, a seed … anything that connects you to the long past, the long future, or time itself. The Long Time Ritual is written and read by Ella Saltmarshe.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our final episode we dive into the role art and culture play in cultivating long-termism at scale.  Far from being window dressing, art and culture forms the operating systems of our world; it has the power to shift our collective identity.  Culture doesn’t just reflect societal norms, it has the power to change, iterate and manifest new ones.  We’ll meet the artists, creators and curators who are using time as both their medium and their message, and explore the role of creativity in shifting us to a long-term society. Special thanks to the contributors to this episode, Brian Eno, Bridgit Antoinette Evans, Katie Paterson, Jeremy Lent, Anab Jain and Sherri Mitchell. Discover more about Brian Eno here. Find out more about the work of Bridgit Antoinette Evans and the Pop Culture Collaborative here. Discover Katie Paterson’s work here and delve into the Future Library. Find out about Jeremy Lent’s work including The Patterning Instinct here. Experience the work of Anab Jain and Superflux here. Find out about Sherri Mitchell’s projects and writing here. If you want to delve deeper into Long Time ideas, here is a suggested reading list! NON-FICTION  Deep Time Reckoning - Vincent Ialenti FutureGen - Jane Davidson Timefulness - Marcia Bjornerud The Precipice - Toby Ord Pip Pip - Jay Griffiths The Clock of the Long Now - Steward Brand The Good Ancestor - Roman Krznaric Doughnut Economics - Kate Raworth Sandtalk - Tyson Yunkaporta The Patterning Instinct - Jeremy Lent The War for Kindness - Jamil Zaki Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall-Kimmerer Underland - Robert Macfarlane The Oldest Living Things in the World - Rachel Sussman  Sacred Instructions - Sherri Mitchell FICTION Kindred- Octavia Butler The Parable Series  - Octavia Butler The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson The OverStory - Richard Powers Man V. Nature - Diane Cook Love & Other Thought Experiments - Sophie Ward Barkskins - Annie Proulx Light Perpetual - Francis Spufford CREDITS The Long Time Academy comes to you from Headspace Studios and The Long Time Project, and is produced by Scenery Studios.   The series was created and produced by Lina Prestwood and Ella Saltmarshe Produced by Ivor Manley and Madeleine Finlay. This episode was also produced by Eli Block.  Executive producers at Headspace Studios are Ash Jones, Leah Sutherland & Morgan Selzer Original artwork by Mavi Morais Design by Loz Ives & Lewis Kay-Thatcher Original music, sound design and mixing by Tristan Cassel-Delavois, Scott Sorenson & Chris Murguia with additional music this episode from Eli Block and Jamie Patterson.  It’s a Sin clips courtesy of Channel 4/ HBO Max/ Red Production Company Glee clip courtesy of  Fox/ 20th Century Fox Television/ Brad Falchuk Teley-Vision/ Ryan Murphy Productions Clips from Mitigation of Shock courtesy of Superflux Future Library archive courtesy of Katie Paterson Studios Additional archive clips from xinaesthete, Astounded/Christopher J Astbury, Switzerland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This imaginative and interactive meditation exercise gives you a unique opportunity to experience elements of the Afro-rithms from the Future game with its co-creator, Ahmed Best. Feel the right hemisphere of your brain awaken with new ideas as he guides and inspires you to build and create a beautiful, decolonised world of your very own...  Written and read by Ahmed Best, with thanks to Lonny Avi Brooks.  Find out more about Afro-rithms from the Future here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whose imagination are we living in, and how does that feel? The last few years have highlighted the raw urgency of the struggle to ensure the future is not dominated by white-supremecy. But what do visions of an alternative future look like? This episode explores how historically, inequalities in the present have been projected into the future, both in terms of how the future has been portrayed, and how it comes to be realised. We look at the impacts of colonialism in the past, present and future, meeting the people changing this on the ground - from activists, to artists, to sci-fi fans.  Whatever the future holds, it is in our hands. Paying attention to the patterns of our time reveals the importance of embracing and cultivating diversity now, and for the long time. Special thanks to the contributors to this episode, Alisha B Wormsley, adrienne maree brown, Safiya Noble, Jay Griffiths, Joshua Virasami, Annauk Olin, Lonny Avi Brooks & Ahmed Best  Find out more about Alisha B Wormsley’s work here Find adrienne maree brown’s most recent book, Grievers here, and listen to her Octavia’s Parables podcast here Get Joshua Virasami’s book, How to Change it: Make a Difference, here and in all good local bookshops. Find Safiya Noble’s book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism here and in all good local bookshops Jay Griffiths’s latest book How To Rebel, her book Pip Pip: A Sideways Look At Time and all her other brilliant works are available HERE and in all good local bookshops Here more about Annauk Olin’s work here Listen to Lonny Brooks’ & Ahmed Best’s The Afrofuturist Podcast here and find out more about the Afro-rithms from the Future game here CREDITS The Long Time Academy comes to you from Headspace Studios and The Long Time Project, and is produced by Scenery Studios. The series was created and produced by Lina Prestwood and Ella Saltmarshe Produced by Ivor Manley and Madeleine Finlay  Executive producers at Headspace Studios are Ash Jones, Leah Sutherland & Morgan Selzer Original artwork by Mavi Morais Design by Loz Ives & Lewis Kay-Thatcher Original music, sound design and mixing by Tristan Cassel-Delavois, Scott Sorenson & Chris Murguia East Liberty news report clip courtesy of KDKA-TV CBS Pittsburgh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A gift to the students of the Academy from Mama Bear, Bear Clan Mother for the Mohawk Nation Council. This traditional Haudenosaunee practice expresses gratitude and empathic connection to all of creation. Usually delivered whenever people gather to make a decision, it can also be done as an individual practice first thing in the morning - “ideally before your feet hit the floor” - or last thing at night. With a great many thanks to Mama Bear and Michelle Schenandoah. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices