This guide is rooted in practice. It emerged from ARAMA: A Particle of the Future, a project developed by Øutra Economia (Another Economy), the Brazilian hub of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. ARAMA was conceived as a confluence between listening, ancestrality, and futurism, using collective imagination to explore what fair futures might look like when shaped by lived experience.
Between March and November 2025, ARAMA travelled across Brazil’s five regions, hosting 10 participatory workshops in 8 territories and engaging 131 participants. The process deliberately prioritised people historically excluded from economic and future-oriented debates, including Black, Indigenous and Quilombola peoples, LGBTQI+ peoples, residents of urban and rural peripheries, mothers, children, adolescents, and elders. Most workshops were locally rooted, while some had regional exchange built into their design.
Øutra Economia developed a methodology centred on dialogue, active dreaming, art, and deep listening as tools for connection and meaning-making. Participants created visual collages and shared spoken and written reflections expressing what a fair future means from their own perspectives. Together, these materials formed a collective portrait of what should, and should not, be part of a shared and just reality.
ARAMA became a 30-square-metre interactive visual installation, first exhibited in Salvador during the Global Artivism Conference and later in Belém at the People’s Summit during the COP30, both of which took place during the month of November 2025. The full collection of collages, dream manifestos, quotations and photos from the workshops are available online in two languages, Portuguese and English. The project’s outputs were also systematized into a book and distributed to Brazilian policymakers, including federal deputies and senators, helping translate collective dreams into concrete policy recommendations.
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