A girl stands facing away in a field of sunflowers. In the distance is the sea, and a sky with scattered clouds

This series of essays has been commissioned in collaboration with the Institute of Welsh Affairs to envision Wales in the long term, and to help understand what the implications for infrastructure might be in 2100.

Read the whole series
A maze drawn on a beach in the foreground with three children heading into it. Blurred background of sea and a hill.

Introducing the essays

This post, written by David Clubb, describes the importance of the very long term when considering immediate challenges.

Ducks swimming near power lines in pond.

What if, by 2100, we had an infrastructure fit for future generations?

A post by Derek Walker, Commissioner for Future Generations

A low multi-arch stone bridge transverses a body of water. In the background are forested hills.

Wales; a beacon of regenerative well-being

Piotr Swiatek looks back, from the year 2100, at the impact of the 2015 Future Generations Act

A stream runs through a green valley on a hillside. A wooden bridge crosses the stream, and sheep graze near one end of the bridge. A path leads up the hill.

I’m not asking for a ramp up Pen y Fan

Bethany Handley describes a future outdoors that is accessible to all; and a present that is not.

A tray of cress seedlings is growing, surrounded by several small figures of a scarecrow, a horse and a tractor

Towards a safe food system

Duncan Fisher argues that a decentralised approach to our food systems can reduce carbon pollution and combat food insecurity.

A roll of barbed wire atop a large brick wall

Prison 2100; a megaprison eco-dystopia

Heledd Melangell envisions a dystopic future for prisons in Wales.

Three women and three children sit in a wooden structure. One woman is picking some food from a tray. There is a blackboard in the background.

Wales in 2100

Jia Wei Lee paints a positive vision for Wales.

Skyline of Cardiff with trees in the foreground and hills and sky in the background.

Cardiff in 2100

Professor Peter Madden draws us into Cardiff at the end of the 21st century

A narrow gauge railway leads down a green valley between the hills beyond

Revisiting the 2020s

Carole-Anne Davies provides a retrospective of Wales, highlighting the changes that came from a future generations approach.

A row of terraced houses sits below a craggy hillside covered in scrub.

Valley 2100

Beau W Beakhouse describes a world of change that blurs into continuity.