Imagination Infrastructure — What Do We Mean?
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
Medium • Rewilding the Imagination
Why did they choose imagination as the concept to underpin their work? D’Alena told me how initially he was skeptical about using the word because he thought they needed a more ‘practical’ one. However, he has subsequently come to appreciate how effective focusing on imagination has been, having observed that ‘imagine’ was one of the most-used word
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
In this sense, practical imagination demands more than creativity—it requires refusal. It requires the courage to disrupt comfortable assumptions, to surface repressed histories and suppressed worldviews and to create friction against linear narratives of progress. It also demands relational thinking: a capacity to hold contradictions, to imagine a... See more
Practical imagination
Imagination creates a larger possibility space from which to choose, and if we can communicate our imagination in compelling ways, we open up a larger possibility space for others too, helping them to realise that they could overcome discrimination, adopt other diets, take pride in being transgender, or help to make digital commons.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
we do know that in order for the imagination to flourish, a person needs to feel safe, relaxed, connected to other people, be nourished with good food, surrounded by hopeful narratives of the future, invited into what-if spaces, exposed to art in all its forms, not feel under surveillance or time pressured, in as equal a society as possible, able t
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
There are many incredible individuals, communities, and organisations dedicated to cultivating this fertile soil, nurturing the infrastructure of possibility across the many levels of society (though some may not recognise themselves or their work as such, nor use the language of the ‘imagination’ or ‘futures’). While this work sits largely on the ... See more