1. Mapping the future?

2. One key purpose of a map is to show us where we want to go... How do we develop a map to a Zero Carbon Future?

3. A map for 2050? We have a legal target of 80% carbon cuts by 2050 There’s a lot of visions of what that might look like Such visions often fail to link to current situations How can a mapping process help?

4. Mapping the future? 2050 – as near as 1970 80% of homes to be lived in then exist now Some things will look much the same So how do we map what's different?

5. A map of a vision? We can map the things we imagine we might need: What needs to be added / taken away – The new buildings / services – The community biodigester, windfarm etc. – The new transport systems How existing buildings will change

6. What would we put on the map? Icons could link to – Plans / designs – Pictures / drawings / artworks – Stories / visions Linking all these to specific places will create a vision based on current reality and show how we need to start to change

7. Making maps live... Maps are entering a new era – coming alive with pictures and stories (and search engines and avatars?) Maps can link on-line networks to real places Maps can create fantasies...... but we also need maps as a tool that communities can use for change

8. Mapping for change? “It is not down in any map; true places never are”. - Herman Melville (Moby Dick) Or maybe we don’t have the right kind of maps… Ye t…

9. “We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time” (T.S.Eliot – Little Gidding) and that will need a very special map...