From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
by Rob Hopkins
added by Keely Adler · updated 20d ago
From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
- imagination is an extremely powerful force for change and humanity can build bridges and empower us to create worlds that are more in line with our values. Imagining allows us not just to see a different future but to explore the impacts of it happening
from Rewilding the Imagination by Medium
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- Faced with climate change and other interconnected existential crises in the twenty-first century, it is quickly becoming a cliché to say that there is a strong need to “imagine better futures.” But such a statement hides many questions and challenges. Who gets to imagine these futures? Who feels safe and supported enough, economically, politically... See more
from Imagination Infrastructuring for Real and Virtual Worlds by Rahel Aima
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Here is the problem: The future visions that are put out there into the world are either commonplace, boring, meaningless, (corporate) agenda-driven, uninspiring, or all of the above together.
The reason for that, in my opinion, is that our minds are stuck in old ideologies, old systems, and old narratives, which prevents us from thinking outside th
... See morefrom Unframing the Future by Thomas Klaffke
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- Often, hope works best alongside tools for proactively tackling future challenges. If our work becomes a catalysing force for people to imagine things they would not have been able to imagine otherwise and act upon that imagination, then that’s powerful, and for me, this is a slow form of critical activism.
from Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics by Medium
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- It is no wonder that under the influence of these pulls, tensions, and clashes (in addition to the supposed responsibility for cultural “transformation”) we become unable – and dis-abled – to cope, let alone act.Imagination requires energy and the mental capacity (space and time) to dream. With unrelenting pressure to get by, perhaps to make it, to... See more
from Dude, where’s my 22nd century? – On the Burnout of Future Images by Jess Henderson
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Imagining is a rigorous discipline. Imagination is our greatest national resource, one that drives value creation across the sciences, the humanities, the arts, and business. All compelling entrepreneurial ventures, transformative social movements, and technological breakthroughs begin with an inspired sense of possibility.
from Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures by Seth Goldenberg
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- it’s not enough to increase imagination in our society. We need to rewild our imaginations. We’re all born with natural capacities to imagine. Children have a boundless imagination but as we grow up our imagination is colonised, especially by schools, where there’s just one right answer and we learn cookie cutter models of how to think.
from Rewilding the Imagination by Medium
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