Step into a gentle imagining of 2035, told through a series of postcards from the future. This film invites you to slow down, breathe, and picture a world shaped by care: homes filled with morning light, streets softened by trees, and neighbourhoods alive with shared life. Each postcard explores a different layer of this future. We begin with the feeling of home, then move to the craft of making it. We wander through streets designed for people and streets alive with nature. Finally, we zoom out to the wider neighbourhood, where community becomes an ecosystem and a shared way of living. At its heart, the film asks: what does a hopeful future look like for you? Walk with us through these glimpses of what could be, and carry a piece of that hope with you when you go.

Credits

• Performance Artist - Somewhere Between https://www.somewherebetween.co.uk/

• Narrator - Chiara Fingland https://www.imagineif.space/

• Editor - Ellie Burroughs https://www.imagineif.space/

• Set Design - Imagine If. Space CIC https://www.imagineif.space/

• Virtual Production Support - Calum Main https://www.calummain.com/

Narration and story written by Somewhere Between and Imagine If. Space CIC inspired by postcards from the future from contributors and communities across Scotland.

Featured Places and People

• The Wee Spoke Hub https://www.shrubcoop.org/wee-spoke-hub

• Edinburgh Community Bookshop https://edinburghcommunitybookshop.org/

• Edinburgh Remakery https://www.edinburghremakery.org.uk/

• Lauriston Agroecology Farm https://www.lauristonfarm.scot/

• Edinburgh Tool Library https://edinburghtoollibrary.org.uk/

• Greenway Garden https://westerhailesgrowing.org/project/gr...

• Edinburgh Library of Things https://www.elot.org.uk/

• Athena

• Chris Powici

• Ian Gilzean

• Janet

• Laura

• Madison Sacramone

• Mel Esquerre https://www.churchillfellowship.org/ideas-...

• Mia

• Rob Hopkins https://www.robhopkins.net/

• Savannah Fishel https://www.thinkitforward.net/blog

• Simon

Video footage shown captured at projects listed between July 2025 and September 2025. Other locations included Loch Venachar, East Neuk, Holyrood Park. Postcard from the Future Contributors wrote a postcard from the future with written/audio description. These were used to develop the narration and story, focusing on themes of homes, streets and neighbourhoods. Hopeful Futures Contributors allowed Imagine If. Space CIC to record audio/visual content to use in the production of this short film. Thank you to all.

Thank you to all our supporters and contributors that helped to realise this project. This project was made possible because of the CoStar Ideate Programme 2025 (https://www.costarnetwork.co.uk/ideate).