Protopia: Leaning into the Future: How to Change Our World for the Better
By Erbel Joanna
Length9h 36m
About this audiobook
What if the future did not have to be either a perfect utopia or an inevitable dystopia? What if it could simply become a little better every day?
In Protopia: Leaning into the Future, Joanna Erbel presents protopia as a practical alternative to grand visions and catastrophic predictions. Meaningful change, she argues, rarely arrives through a single revolution. It grows gradually through cooperation, care, imagination, experimentation, and small initiatives that can be tested, improved, and shared.
Drawing on examples from urban planning, housing, cooperatives, local currencies, public services, environmental action, and community development, Erbel demonstrates how ideas move from the margins into the mainstream. She explores the power of prototyping, the role of cities as laboratories of innovation, and the importance of neighbourhood networks in building social and economic resilience.
The book also introduces solarpunk as a source of constructive imagination: a way of thinking about the future that acknowledges present crises without surrendering to despair. Instead of waiting for ideal conditions, we can begin with the resources, relationships, and possibilities already around us.
Combining social analysis with inspiring real-world examples, Protopia is an invitation to reclaim our ability to shape the future. It offers a hopeful yet pragmatic approach to change—one rooted not in perfection, but in persistence, cooperation, and the belief that a better world is built step by step.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.3 (142)
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GenrePsychology
Length9 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 6, 2026
LanguagePolish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Foreword: A walk along the horizon
3The present future
4Anything could always go wrong
5The default city
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6Introduction: The future is already here
7Time for change
8We create the future as we choose our metaphors
9The seeds of a better future germinate slowly
10Description of chapters
11Chapter 1. Between utopia and dystopia
12The power of the story
13Imagination training
14Solarpunk: when goodness rules
15Protopia — towards a better future
16Chapter 2. The power of small changes
17Touch to believe — the power of prototyping
18Choice architecture — context makes a difference
19Focus on the real
20Opening to the random
21Chapter 3. What drives innovation?
22Pass it on — the relay of ideas
23From niche to mainstream activities — compromises and missed opportunities
24Acting agile (with values)
25The economy of attention
26Chapter 4. It is cities that create innovation
27A porous city and the power of diversity
28Let your body be your guide
29The hybrid neighbourhood
30Innovation as a public service
31Chapter 5. The return of good — investing in the future
32Local currencies build wealth
33Building a cooperation ecosystem
34Reconstruction through cooperatives: the power of local potential
35Anchoring the future in your neighbourhood
36Chapter 6. Cooperatives as vehicles for development
37The solarpunk cooperative in the heart of Warsaw
38Development cooperatives — from participatory democracy to economic democracy
39A fractal development model — working with local resources
40The spiral of resilience — creating your own gravity
41Chapter 7. Here comes the new
42Pride in what is to come
43Empathic effectiveness
44Community of interest and territory
45The future is born in smaller towns
46Acknowledgements
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