possibility studies

If you are asked to imagine a future city, you are bound to think of its transport, its buildings or its public spaces, not the invisible patterns that may explain much more about its character. The discipline of imagining physical things can be extremely creative, and today’s architects are at the forefront of thinking through how to live entwined

So I think we should turn back and pay attention to these fuckers. Use their infrastructure to release information about exactly what these people are doing and how. I think we should take our potential futures back.

Thin imagination is vague and partial, whereas thick imagination combines ideas, philosophy, programmes and detailed implementation. Most influential ideas achieve their impact by becoming thick in this sense, as well as through repetition.

Though these authors were referring to research on adolescents’ and adults’ self-concept, they enforce the message that possibility is more than a starting point for action, it is a main motivation for trying things that lead to growth. As of now there exists few valid measurements of a growth mindset in children younger than age 10 (Muradoglu et

It is not accidental, in this context, that the inability to reimagine one’s life is a primary indicator of traumatic experiences, and its reversal represents a key sign of recovering and, in some cases, of entering a new phase of post-traumatic growth.

Experiences of the possible foster mental health . While mental health and well-being have a wide range of determinants, the capacity to envision a multitude of possible solutions to life’s problems, and the confidence that some of these can be achieved, is a precondition for both.

The possible emerges in human experience whenever there is a multitude of perspectives available for individual, groups and societies to draw upon in understanding themselves and their environment.