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. 

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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How can we do politics with a Long Time lens? So often it feels like our leaders are firmly stuck in the short-term, motivated by getting re-elected every four or five years and the sway of vested interests. 

In this episode we meet the people changing this both from within government and outside it, with their imaginative and innovative - yet highly realistic - Long Time approaches to politics and law. We travel to ancient Greece, hear from teenagers suing their governments, ministers creating new laws to care for future generations, academics in Japan who are using theatrical methods to enable policymakers to feel into the future, and indigenous wisdom-keepers whose oldest living democracy on the planet shows us what a political system that cares for all future earth-dwellers looks like. 

Special thanks to the contributors to this episode, Roman Krznaric, Michelle Schenandoah, Mama Bear, Tatsuyoshi Saijo, Jane Davidson, Julia Olson and Levi Draheim. 

Leave us a voice note here telling us how listening to this series is making you feel about the present and the future - we listen to all your messages and would love to include some in future episodes. 

Irish referendum clips courtesy of Courtesy of The Citizens Assembly - Youtube Channel and ITV News

Julia Olson in court audio courtesy the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Official YouTube Channel, December 11th 2017

Welsh devolution referendum results Courtesy of BBC News, 1997

Kurt Vonnegut clip from NOW October 2005 courtesy of PBS

Sophie Howe, Welsh Future Generations Commissioner clip courtesy of Senedd Cymru/ Welsh Parliament, September, Youtube, September 2019

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

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This Loving-Kindness-meditation-with-a-twist asks us to generate care for people around us today, and for those in the future who have yet to be born. Co-created by Ella Saltmarshe and Headspace teacher Dora Kamau, who also reads the meditation.

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Greta Thunberg famously chided world leaders for pursuing “fairytales of eternal economic growth”. In this episode we learn how short-termism is baked into our current economic story, and why we need to change this narrative. Ella meets poet, podcaster, and economics student, GEORGE THE POET and together they visit “the belly of the beast” - The Bank Of England - and begin to reimagine a new economic storyline.  

We then meet people all over the world, creating the new economic systems that work for the long-term future of all inhabitants of the planet. This is economics for people who feel like economics isn’t for them!

Special thanks to the contributors to this episode, George The Poet, Jason Hickel, Kate Raworth, Andy Haldane, Temuera Hall and Sandy Darity, as well as Immy Kaur, Eduard Müller, Jared Bybee and Fanny Brøholm.

George the Poet’s latest project Common Ground encourages interaction with his Peabody Award-winning podcast Have You Heard George’s Podcast?

Jason Hickel’s fascinating work can be found HERE

Find out more about Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics in action HERE

More about Temuera Hall’s work can be found HERE

More about William Sandy Darity’s book From Here to Equality HERE

Watch Greta Thunberg's full speech at the September 2019 UN Climate Action Summit 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 with research by Momoe Ikeda-Chelminska

Executive producers at Headspace Studios are Ash Jones, Leah Sutherland & Morgan Selzer

Original artwork by Mavi Morais

Design by Loz Ives and Lewis Kay-Thatcher 

Original music, sound design and mixing by Tristan Cassel-Delavois, Scott Sorenson & Chris Murguia

Clip of Greta Thunberg at the September 2019 UN Climate Action Summit courtesy of the United Nations

 

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Read by Kessonga Giscombe, this immersive and transformative meditation takes listeners back through time, and through the 4.6 billion year evolution of our living Earth. Experience a unique perspective of deep time!

The Well of Deep Time was written by Stephan Harding and Robert Woodford of the Deep Time Walk Project, with thanks to Ella Saltmarshe and Lina Prestwood.

The Well Of Deep Time is available in an illustrated .pdf from The Deep Time Walk Project website, alongside the Deep Time Walk App and other useful resources.

The meditation was composed and sound designed by Casually Here for Scenery Studios. Audio courtesy of The Deep Time Walk Project with additional sound design elements from Jo Hutton.

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Written and read by end-of-life specialist, Alua Arthur, this meditation asks us to imagine what it is like to die, in order to bring about a deeper appreciation of being alive. It’s a life-affirming practice that’s best done in its entirety, in a quiet place where you won’t be disturbed. And it’s important to say, that practice isn’t recommended for those experiencing depression or having suicidal thoughts. If this is you, we gently advise not to do this meditation today. Here’s a link to a collection of mental health resources around the world for those feeling, depressed, suicidal or needing emotional support: https://www.headspace.com/mental-health-resources

More about Alua Arthur’s end of life work HERE

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