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Imagination Infrastructuring for Real and Virtual Worlds
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Given the inherent emergence of futures — both imaginary and realised — imagination infrastructures need to be understood as verbs, not nouns, actions, not things — processes of creation in a constant process of becoming.
Olivia Oldham • Imagination Infrastructure — What Do We Mean?
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Like a railway network or an electricity grid, the infra- structure of the imagination requires long-term invest- ment and maintenance for it to continue functioning well and serving its com- munity(ies). This kind of patient, slow investment in spaces, places, relation- ships and the digital and social infrastructures of the imagination will build
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Imagination, we might say, is the invisible circuitry that connects the world out there to our inner worlds. So, we cannot just be critical of oppressive systems without also examining how our own private thoughts and desires reflect and reproduce a dominant imagination that values some lives over others. We must, in a sense, continuously deprogram
... See moreRuha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
How can we build up an infrastructure, both physical and metaphysical, tangible and intangible, to enable the development, the practices and use of collective imagination? We’re particularly interested in how the collective works here — what it means for us to imagine together, how the grouping of intelligence progresses our ability to envisage and
... See moreOlivia Oldham • 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
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