“…Other publications presented descriptive case studies where stories played a role in social innovation, whether through empowering citizens to collectively construct and narrate their realities (Ahmas, 2012;Tassinari et al, 2017), challenge xenophobic narratives (Coban et al, 2020) or through elucidating, by means of practical examples, the potential for a more socially and environmentally sustainable economy (Longhurst et al, 2016). Within this larger theme sits a substantial subset of publications from the arts (Rendle-Short et al, 2018;Coban et al, 2020) and design (Chueng-Nainby et al, 2015;Eriksen et al, 2016;Galbiati and Piredda, 2017;Copeland and de Moor, 2018;Bertolotti, 2020;Nawawi et al, 2020;Piredda and Ciancia, 2022;Venter and Moolman, 2022) that describe applications of storytelling to collectively imagine, debate and co-design alternative futures.…”