Images of the future

I think the imagination is the single most useful tool mankind possesses. It beats the opposable thumb. I can imagine living without my thumbs, but not without my imagination. – Ursula K. Le Guin, Author.

Like a railway network or an electricity grid, the infra- structure of the imagination requires long-term invest- ment and maintenance for it to continue functioning well and serving its com- munity(ies). This kind of patient, slow investment in spaces, places, relation- ships and the digital and social infrastructures of the imagination will build

“The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.”

— Ursula Le Guin ― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

Imagination as a team sport – that’s when the world changes.

– Ed Finn, Founding Director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University.