Rewilding the Imagination

Moral Imaginations exists because tackling the big challenges of our times requires radical shifts in mindset and perception. We research, develop and work with post-rational approaches that combine imagination, science, rigour, art, truth and beauty to help people make sense of the climate crisis and move to transformative action.

We need three things to release our imaginative power and exercise that muscle:

* Dedicated time and space to unblock our imagination.

* Permission, which is often withheld in a performance culture, where people may fear humiliation or being laughed at if they exercise imagination.

* Help through portals and exercises, which unlocks not just the br... See more

In our society, the spaces for adults to play are mostly constrained, for example, to sports, or going to the pub. And opportunities to live a life of imagination are reserved for exceptionally privileged people, like designers, actors, artists and film directors. This lack of imagination in our lives is an existential risk for society and humanity... See more

The colonisation of the imagination is like the deforestation and monocropping of our forests. The imagination starts as a wild and boundless place, and over our lifetimes becomes more and more constrained, and rigid.

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.

Art and imagination are seen as something nice to have but nothing to do with making change in the real world. But that’s not true, and we need to bring them back together.

In the past, imagination, science and rational and imaginative processes used to be closer together but in the last 200 years as a result of the industrial revolution there’s been a separation between the imaginative and artistic and science and the rational.