> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://news.transitionnetwork.org/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Transition Brasil at the Brazil Futures Forum: connecting territories, youth and regenerative futures - URL: https://news.transitionnetwork.org/transition-brasil-at-the-brazil-futures-forum-connecting-territories-youth-and-regenerative-futures/ - Published: 2026-09-16T10:06:09.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-16T10:06:09.000Z - Description: From Mel: We went to the Brasil Futures Forum in Brasil, and our Transition initiatives had a special space on the Event. Also, Rob came online and shared some inspirations on falling in love with the future! - Author: Transition Network international The Brazil Futures Forum (BFF) brought together people, movements and initiatives working to imagine and build possible futures in Brazil. For Transition Brasil, it was an important opportunity to bring the Transition perspective into this broader conversation — connecting territorial regeneration, new economies, youth participation, culture and collective action. Transition Brasil was represented throughout the Forum by a group of women working across different initiatives and organizations: Melissa Bivar, representing Transition Brasil and UMMA Hub; Ana Lavaquial, Donut Brasil and UMMA Hub; Lucimara Letelier, RegeneraCultura and UMMA Hub; Malu Criar, Collab Jovem, Transition Brasil, UMMA Hub and LALA; and Isabel Valle, Bambual Editora and UMMA Hub. This diversity of roles reflected something important about the Brazilian Transition movement: its work increasingly happens through connections between people, organizations, places and different fields of practice, rather than within isolated initiatives. ![](https://news.transitionnetwork.org/content/images/2026/09/brasil4.jpeg) ![](https://news.transitionnetwork.org/content/images/2026/09/brasil1.jpeg) Brasil Futures Forum 2026, credits: Melissa Bivar ### Youth shaping the future One of the highlights was the Youth Curatorship, led by Malu Criar, a young member of Collab Jovem, a Transition Brasil initiative created to support young people in exploring their own paths, strengthening their agency and imagining possibilities for their lives and territories. Having youth at the centre of the Forum's curation reflected a way of working that has been part of Transition Brasil's practice: creating spaces where young people are invited to bring their own perspectives, shape the conversation and actively contribute to the futures they want to see. Rather than being treated simply as beneficiaries or an audience for change, young people were given an active role in curating and shaping the Forum itself. ![](https://news.transitionnetwork.org/content/images/2026/09/brasil5-2.jpeg) Brasil Futures Forum 2026, credits: Melissa Bivar ### From Business to Place Melissa Bivar and Ana Lavaquial also facilitated *From Business to Place*, an experiential workshop exploring regenerative approaches to economic development. Participants used the Doughnut Economics framework and the REconomy Business Model Canvas to explore how projects and enterprises can be designed from a place-based perspective — beginning with the place, its identity, vocation and potential, and then considering how economic activity can contribute to its vitality. The workshop offered a practical invitation to move beyond the idea of the business as an isolated entity and to consider the relationships between enterprises, communities and the places in which they operate. ### “I Saw Utopia and It Was Alive” Another key moment was the panel “I Saw Utopia and It Was Alive”, presented by Lucimara Letelier, alongside Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition movement, and Fábio Scarano, at the Museum of Tomorrow. The conversation brought together imagination, inspiration, culture, science and lived experience, exploring the ways in which futures that may once have seemed utopian are already emerging through concrete initiatives and communities that dare to dream. Rob Hopkins brought a powerful invitation to the audience: **t**o fall in love with the future. Rather than imagining the future only through the lens of crisis, fear or what we need to prevent, he invited us to cultivate a vivid and compelling vision of what we want to create — and to allow that vision to inspire action in the present. His message resonated strongly with the spirit of the panel: the future becomes more possible when we can imagine it, feel it and fall in love with it. ![](https://news.transitionnetwork.org/content/images/2026/09/brasil3-2.jpeg) ![](https://news.transitionnetwork.org/content/images/2026/09/brasil2-2.jpeg) Brasil Futures Forum 2026, credits: Melissa Bivar The presence of Transition Brasil at the Brazil Futures Forum was therefore more than a series of individual contributions. It was an opportunity to make visible the ecosystem of people and initiatives already experimenting with new ways of organising, collaborating and creating change in Brazil. From youth empowerment to regenerative economies, from territorial approaches to cultural imagination, these different strands are connected by a common question: How can we create the conditions for people and places to thrive and for the futures we imagine to become something we can experience in the present? For Transition Brasil, the Brazil Futures Forum was another opportunity to strengthen these connections and to contribute Brazilian experiences and perspectives to the wider global conversation about the transitions already underway. The future is under construction... and the forum reminded us that we are the utopian architects. **Melissa Bivar** **Transition Brasil**