Sublime

questions that begin with ‘What if …’ and that help us unlock the imagination in service to the big challenges we face.

What if the answers were to be found not in the bleak solitude of survivalism and isolation, in the tweaking of ruthless commercialism, or in the dream that some electable saviour will come riding to our rescue, but rather in reconnection to community? As we put it: ‘If we wait for governments, it will be too late. If we act as individuals, it will

‘Engaging with the future … imagining that we are willing to author it together as opposed to having it given to us, is important. And “radical”’ is to say that we should be ambitious and slightly crazy and idiosyncratic about how we think that future could be,’ he told me. ‘It shouldn’t just be a future imagined by politicians, technologists and p

We need to play at living in the kind of world we want to create.

We need to deepen our storytelling of one specific kind of story, however – namely, the kind of story that can allow us to imagine a future replete with possibility.

What if we created the optimal conditions – where we live, where we work, where we study, where we pray, where you walk every day – for the imagination to flourish? What would you do? What would you change?

At every step I fell more and more in love with those two words, ‘What if …?’