Imagination Infrastructures
Artwork by > Taehyoung Maria Jeon
“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
A long-term investment in growing and maintaining the capacity of communities and institutions to collectively imagine, so that they are able to see, feel and think differently in order to act differently.
There to enable the development, the practices and use of collective imagination.
Infrastructure that exists in multiple forms - both physical and metaphysical, tangible and intangible.
Recognises that collective imagination is a practice that you develop overtime, and therefore our capacity to do so can be strengthened.
Resourcing the conditions for new, plural, and different imaginations to emerge.
A divestment in the status quo, to unsettle the present and open up pathways of possibility.
We’ve expanded on these ideas here.
Imagination Infrastructure is….
“The world, the values of the world, are shaped by the choices each of us make. Which means my thinking, my actions, my relationships, and my life create a front line for the possibilities of the entire species. Each one of us is an individual practice ground for what the whole can or cannot do, will or will not do…. We live (and die) inside of systems that were imagined centuries ago by those ambitious and narrow minds of colonists and patriarchs. We live inside the lineage of relatively ignorant imaginations, which were obsessed with protection and domination. But we know so much more now.”
