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Cultivating Everyday Imagination
We need three things to release our imaginative power and exercise that muscle:
* Dedicated time and space to unblock our imagination.
* Permission, which is often withheld in a performance culture, where people may fear humiliation or being laughed at if they exercise imagination.
* Help through portals and exercises, which unlocks not just the br... See more
* Dedicated time and space to unblock our imagination.
* Permission, which is often withheld in a performance culture, where people may fear humiliation or being laughed at if they exercise imagination.
* Help through portals and exercises, which unlocks not just the br... See more
Medium • Rewilding the Imagination
when we work to cultivate a collective vision for transforming the world, we must be careful not to fetishize imagination as somehow operating magically and independently from other powerful ingredients, like strategizing and organizing, to make our vision a reality.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
Pioneers of ideas and pioneers of practice are complementary Imaginers have to find collaborators—doers, organisers, regularisers—if their ideas are to be more than imaginary. The collaborators’ job is to turn poetry into prose; theology and prophecy into ritual; compassion into organised generosity; mercy into justice. It involves testing and expe
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
So imagination happens in the mind, often involves a new way of seeing, both literally and metaphorically, and feeds off a deeper shared unconscious. What else does it depend on? Everyone can imagine to some extent. We are all endowed with an ability to picture things which don’t exist. But social imagination—the ability to picture a future society
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Imagination – that ‘ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise’ – needs diversity to feed it.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
The world into which we are born was shaped by a capacity to generate the new through billions of years of evolution. Now, for us, a comparable capacity to imagine, together, is a vital aspect of what it means to be free and alive. Imagination liberates us from the illusion that the way the world is now is the only way it can be. In this sense, ima
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