What do we do after the pandemic?

We’ve made a mess of the systems we depend on.

The second book from the Wicked Problems Collaborative asked contributors to survey the landscape and address the systems change they believe would most benefit humanity. Chapters look back on circumstances before and during the pandemic and put forth a mix of suggestions aimed at pointing us down a better path going forward.

WPC Book #2 book will challenge you to consider both what’s normal and what’s possible. It will invite you to think about some of the ways in which we live and the reasons why. It will also invite you to consider what life might be like if we stopped doing destructive things and replaced them with generative practices. In short, it is a hopeful book about, and for, our collective future.Our lives can be far better than that which we’ve known, but before we can demand it we need to collectively decide what we want. It’s time to decide on the future we want and start building it.

Table of Contents

The Shape of Things to Come - Kati Sipp Degrowth as a Response to COVID-19 and the Ecological Crises - Riccardo Mastini Journalism Requires a Structural Overhaul - Victor Pickard The Necessity of Non-Market Relationships - Sam Bliss Reclaiming Public Space - Jacob Bacharach The Aliens Among Us - Paul Fidalgo Engaging Narratives - Suzy Waldman The Great Sifting - John Wenger Evict Monopoly - David Atkins Henry George and the Call for a Post-Pandemic Idea of Freedom - Nicholas Archer Worker Ownership and Control - Gabriel Mathy The Stakeholder Virus and the Pandemic of Business for Good - Russ Stoddard Can COVID spark a care revolution? - Gawain Kripke Resetting Our Foundations - Jamie Cooke Redirecting the Status Quo - Courtney Savie Lawrence Pull the Plug on Disinformation - Chris Oestereich