imagination is resilient. If we can put to one side the factors that are suppressing it, it will re-emerge, blinking into the light, because it is our natural state. It’s a fundamental part of being human. When the right conditions are present, imagination flourishes. It’s the natural order of things, in the same way that land, left to its own

We are living through a perfect storm of factors ruinous to the imagination. As we face vast crises that demand imaginative and urgent responses and a reimagining of everything, we are simply not up to it. This is really serious. Which makes it all the more important to reprioritise it as rapidly, and in as many ways and places, as we can.