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Rewilding the Imagination
‘We need to rewild our imagination. We must learn how to dream again, and we have to learn that together.’
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
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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
Rahel Aima • Imagination Infrastructuring for Real and Virtual Worlds
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‘We need to rewild our imagination. We must learn how to dream again, and we have to learn that together.’
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
If we’re to resist the gravity well of banality, extract ourselves from of the containers of the past, escape the stifling grip of pre-packaged thinking, refuse to be complicit in the astro-turfing of culture, and create better, desired futures rather than merely slipstream into default ones, then what we really need is imagination. And the recogni... See more
martin weigel • Fighting The Astro-Turfing Of Culture, The Gravity Well Of Banality, And The Stifling Grip Of Pre-Packaged Thinking — Martin Weigel
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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
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
Imagination – that ‘ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise’ – needs diversity to feed it.