Through the Utopian Lens of Opportunity: Using fiction and theatre during COVID-19 to reimagine the future in older age

Covid-19 and the politics of hope: A comparative analysis of Greek and Ecuadorian letters from a desired post-pandemic future

“…The Letter from the Future exercise has been adapted for research purposes ( Sools & Mooren, 2012 ; Sools et al, 22015; Sools, 2020 ) and used in various contexts, e.g., liminal employment experiences ( Sools et al, 2017 , Triliva et al, 2020 ), intimate partner violence ( Kilgore et al, 2018 ), psychiatry ( Sools, 2019 ), voting ( Sools et al, 2018 ), the future of travel ( Tussyadiah & Miller, 2020 ). Although mainly used as text-based method, there are also some promising applications of the method in visual narrative ( Ronkainen & Ryba, 2018 ) and art-based approaches ( Nouvet et al, 2019 , French et al, 2021 ).…”