Theo Erasmus

If the Enlightenment was a revolution in thinking, the survival of the human species may well depend on a revolution in imagination. This revolution would not center reason and mastery, but interdependence, care and the capacity to imagine otherwise. It would demand that we challenge what we think is possible, not through extrapolation, but through... See more

Designers and strategists working toward preferable futures must recognize that technical forecasting and trend analysis are not enough. Imagination is what allows alternatives to emerge—alternatives that are often suppressed by dominant narratives of innovation, growth and inevitability. When imagination is reclaimed as a civic and political capac... See more

In this sense, practical imagination demands more than creativity—it requires refusal. It requires the courage to disrupt comfortable assumptions, to surface repressed histories and suppressed worldviews and to create friction against linear narratives of progress. It also demands relational thinking: a capacity to hold contradictions, to imagine a... See more

The firm as an engine of imagination”, Bronk and Beckert argue that corporations are not just economic entities but producers of imaginaries.