collective dreaming

• Use your imagination as a way to practice exploring possibilities…and discover the many ways this is connected to real-world hope.

Developing enough of a common dream language that we can be that much more explicit about the real futures we are shaping into existence.

a place where I can unearth the stories within the landscape as it is still unfolding. It is a place where I can dream of what could be…not only for myself but for the collective, the real world that I’m a part of

we are losing our capacity to “conceptualize a tomorrow that [is] radically different from our present.

We’ve been told that doing “good work” will lead to economic success, but really, it might just be the other way around. With the help of large collective organising, worker-driven structures, and knowledge-sharing, we can accomplish better work conditions and more beautiful, more fulfilling creative work.”

Paradoxically, the most reliable method to envision and plan for futures, isn’t just studying and extrapolating scientific facts, historical developments, psychology and demography, but by building stories beyond our wildest imagination.

ore often than not, the digital gardens of today are botanic—privately owned online spaces made for visitors to fawn over while a “do not touch” sign looms in view. These private gardens are generative for our personal learning, but they are far from the communal gardens I grew up in that valued collective work and knowledge. Where are the digital

“The imagination creates the future,” writes Lewis Hyde, professor and author of the book The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World .1