How can we promote transformative change in a world where the future is met with little expectation and the necessary shifts seem undesirable? My graduation project explores this question in three research booklets and an introduction video. It starts from the scale of today’s challenges, with climate change at its core, and looks at how apathy and paralysis shape our response. From there it turns to play and imagination as ways to break that cycle. It ends in Rotterdam, a city where climate adaptation and civic participation can strengthen each other.