What if imagining and even engaging with the impossible has actually become a necessity? In the current landscape of geopolitical events, climate change, and other accumulating societal challenges, it seems that we are stuck in our inability to perceive and respond to emergence. The call for urgency, the awareness that technology is changing expone

The size of this space depends both on imagination and on the work done to translate imagination into practical options. In principle, we could map any society by the size of its possibility spaces, and we would expect those with larger spaces to respond better to shocks and surprises than those with smaller spaces. This, in essence, is the functio

Yet it is only through imagination that we can think about the future and break free from these intellectual prisons, usually by imagining one step at a time: how to extend, add to, subtract from or graft something new onto the institutions, laws and norms around us, in what is sometimes called the ‘adjacent possible’.