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Rewilding the Imagination
Imagination is so important because it helps us create longing, and if we can get that right, other things then follow.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Any national approach to rebuilding the imagination must take access to nature seriously, and must also recognise the power of bringing more nature to where people live, to a ‘rewilding’ of our towns, cities and neighbourhoods.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Perhaps we should instead be asking what the world would look like if a healthy imagination were, in our everyday, considered indispensable to a healthy life?
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
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
Practical imagination
whispersandgiants.com
It would evaluate policy proposals from elsewhere in the government through a lens of whether they make the country more imaginative, or less. (So any policies likely to increase anxiety, stress and loneliness would not be permitted, for example.) It would train other departments to become more imaginative, more flexible, more playful. Its brief wo
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