Rob Hopkins

Rob Hopkins

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Podcast by Rob Hopkins

21/08/2025

Rob Hopkins and Immy Kaur in conversation. Civic Square, 16th July 2025

In the courtyard of Civic Square in Birmingham, Immy Kaur and Rob Hopkins discussed the core ideas in his book 'How to Fall in Love with the Future', the power of community-led development, and much more.

1h 15m
23/01/2025

Time Machine sound effect

Here is the sound created by Ben Addicott to use for online events to signal the transition between the present day and the near future. Feel free to use but please do credit where you got it from.

1 min
01/02/2023

2030 Field Recordings of Cornish beavers

2030 Field Recordings of Cornish beavers by Rob Hopkins

1 min
17/10/2022

The Utrecht bicycle rush hour.

I was in Utrecht recently, to record, for 'Field Recordings from the Future', the rush hour of bicycles. Here is a taste of that.

1 min
09/09/2022

A taste of the Vauban

What would a car-free, low carbon, delicious future sound like? I visited the Vauban in Freiburg to find out.

5 min
29/06/2022

Introducing 'Field Recordings from the Future'

Here is a short piece to introduce a new project I'm doing with the amazing Mr Kit: https://kitmusic.bandcamp.com/ Watch this space!

12 min
24/02/2022

From What If to What Next: Episode 44

Welcome to 2022. We start this year with a fantastic episode and a really important question. What if we were to implement every solution that we already know exists in order to tackle the climate crisis the sense of urgency that an emergency should inspire? After the damp squib of COP26, it's a vitally important question. Can we do it? Is there still time? And most importantly, what would it feel like to live in a time when that was actually happening, when all around us, all hands were applied to this most momentous of tasks? It's not a question we ask often enough. And it is a big question. Joining me for the first episode of this year are Clover Hogan and Paul Hawken, both brilliant thinkers on this question. Paul's book. 'Regeneration', which we refer to throughout the podcast, can be bought here (never Amazon). Do let me know what you think of this episode, of thoughts for future What If questions it raises for you, or anything else it inspires in you. And Happy New Year!

59 min
24/02/2022

From What If to What Next: Episode 45

Here's Episode 45 for you, I hope you're going to love it. Meet Tim Gill and Alice Ferguson of Playing Out, brilliant guests for a vital discussion. Today we're talking about kids, and play and about the places where we live. Kids have almost entirely vanished from our streets. Retreating indoors in the face of the car’s domination of our city spaces, and a perception of the lack of safety, kids are all too often starved of play. ‘No ball games here’ signs. Horrible noises only audible to teenagers to chase them away from sitting near certain buildings, The privatisation of public space. Cities are increasingly being designed around the needs of adults and capital rather than kids. So what might we do about it? Some beautiful visions of the future from our Time Machine adventure this week. I hope you love it. Do let me know what you think.....

40 min

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Podcast by Rob Hopkins

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Rob Hopkins
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