A World With Podcast Launches

A World With, a new podcast series created by Futures In Draft and Storythings, launched earlier this week with a bold invitation: to step into a space and time powered by radical imagination.

A World With is a collection of short, intimate monologues from visionaries, organizers, artists, and dreamers who dare to imagine better worlds. Across episodes of 8–10 minutes, contributors share one transformative idea they would bring into being, and why, offering listeners sparks of fearless creativity rooted in lived experience and expansive in ambition.

From dismantling borders and reimagining land ownership to transforming public space through dance and collective joy, A World With spotlights ideas that break from oppressive systems and open pathways to liberation. Rather than reforming what already exists, the series challenges listeners to build differently and to believe that change is possible.

Created as part of a wider ecosystem of stories amplifying liberation movements, A World With is designed for those hungry for hope, inspiration, and new ways of thinking about the future. It is a reminder that when systems begin to fail, the future starts with the ideas we are brave enough to explore.

The series features solo monologue episodes built from original scripts, rooted in lived experience, and brought to life with professional, immersive sound design that creates a reflective, meditative listening experience that invites both calm and possibility.

The first season of A World With includes:

Episode 1: Libraries of Things with Andrew Sage

How can we do better at sharing and reusing the items we already own? In a time of excess, overconsumption, and rampant pollution, what if libraries could hold the solutions? We open up the series with Trinbagonian writer, YouTuber, and artist Andrew Sage, who explores the possibilities of a world with libraries of things. Similar to how libraries around the world make books available, this episode explores what’s possible when we have shared access to a variety of tools, resources, and household items. Touching on concepts of sustainability and collectivity, Andrew discusses the potential that libraries of things could offer in helping us to move away from systems of wealth inequality and scarcity to systems of collective care and abundance.

Episode 2: Land Reparations with Sam Sivapragasam

Did you know that in England, 1% of the population owns more than 50% of the land? In this episode, UK-based writer, grower and organiser Sam Sivapragasam describes a world with land reparations. Sam explores the colonial legacies of land ownership and its impact on the health of global communities. Contrasting their experiences of growing up in both Jamaica and the UK, Sam explores how land reparations would serve as a climate justice solution that demands the remaking of the world. For Sam, land reparations offer an opportunity to repair the harm to communities descended from colonised people and to radically shift the way that power is distributed globally.

Episode 3: Indigenous Feminism with Samara Almonte

Sometimes, the most radical and powerful learnings about our identities, bodies, and cultural being can be found in our past. In this episode, we hear from Indigenous storyteller, community organiser and environmental justice educator, Samara Almonte. Samara introduces and contextualises the global importance of Indigenous feminism. With recognition of native practices and cultures across the world, Samara dives into why Indigenous feminism is an intersectional solution to how our communities can evolve, thrive, and survive. Samara explores themes of motherhood, power, leadership, climate justice, and bodily autonomy with introspection and vulnerability. She fearlessly tackles patriarchy head-on whilst unpacking how we can best prepare for where our world is going by acknowledging and understanding where we have come from.

Episode 4: No Landlords with Sara Bafo

Have you ever imagined a world with no landlords? No price hikes, mould, evictions and unlivable conditions? In this episode, UK-based writer, creative producer and educator Sara Bafo presents the potential of a world with no landlords. Grounding listeners in the current obstacles and realities tenants face from landlord greed and exploitation, Sara guides us through what the world could look like if housing and home ownership was an accessible and safe reality for everyone. From increased senses of stability and security to improved societal equity and wealth equality, this episode exemplifies why housing is a human right and why the removal of landlords could offer the solution.

Episode 5: One Nation with Mohammed Elnaiem

What if the monopoly of birth didn’t dictate what access we had to rights, safety, healthcare and our quality of life? Director of the Decolonial Centre, Mohammed Elnaiem, invites us on an exploration of a world with one nation. Mohammed offers a powerful case for border abolition, charting the potential of a world where arbitrary lines on the map, competition, and othering are dismantled. Alongside this, Mohammed explains the history of a world before colonialism and formalised lines of division and encourages us to expand our imagination and consciousness around what could be possible when we lean into collectivity, openness, and a sense of shared unity.

Episode 6: Free Public Dance Parties with Thanu Yakupitiyage

Could the loneliness epidemic be solved on the dance floor? For the final episode of the season, New York based activist, resource mobiliser and cultural organiser, Thanushka (Thanu) Yakupitiyage brings free public dance parties to the world. Dance has always been used as a site of both resistance and expression. For Thanu, free public dance parties offer an opportunity to rebuild neighbourhoods, boost community relationships, and increase multiracial solidarity. Listen closely as Thanu deep dives into the potential of dance parties in this moment, where hope, connection, and relationships to one another are more important than ever.

Storythings is the content marketing agency of choice for brands and organizations that want to stay human. Storythings finds the unique stories within each organization and uses them to make content that people actually want to give their time to, whether they are podcasts, videos, or editorial. Storythings works with companies and organisations like ADP, BCG, Experian, Pearson, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Shakespeare Folger Library, Gates Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is an independent social change organization, working to support and speed up the transition to a more equitable and just future, free from poverty, where people and the planet can flourish. Part of their work includes resourcing efforts to grow the capacities and capabilities needed for deep system change. Their movement aims to strengthen grassroots organizing in the UK, especially where it is led from positions of marginality. They nurture work that is supporting system change through tackling issues that are below the surface: backing work that unlocks shifts in mindsets, in cultural narratives and in the ‘hidden wiring’ that keeps the status quo in place.

Check out A World With. We need transformative ideas instead of the false nostalgia of making things great again when they weren’t that terrific in the first place.