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Imagination Infrastructuring for Real and Virtual Worlds
The problem is the gulf between this restless, fascinating technological imagination and the much more limited imagination that exists in relation to so much else. It’s not that alternative futures are absent.21 It’s just that the scientific side of imagination is far more prominent, far better funded and inevitably far less sensitive to the precar
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
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?
All four dimensions of the imaginary need to evolve in harmony for imaginative ideas to last; they gather around them meanings and associations and become part of people’s identity. Visions that remain only visions do not survive, but equally, practical ideas that don’t have any supporting superstructure of ideas tend not to thrive because they lac
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and the life of the imagination may therefore suffer.’36 Might it be that the more deeply we are immersed in crisis and the more dystopian the future appears, the less able we are to imagine a way out? I put this idea to Gordon Turnbull, who told me that in his opinion, when populations are dejected and depressed, they exhibit the same symptoms tha
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
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
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This social imagining can take the form of two people keeping their own handwritten journals in separate notebooks, writing down a few thoughts each day, and then trading the journals at the end of the simulation to compare the futures they dreamed. Or it can take the form of a group email, with all participants replying daily or weekly with a new
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