In a world governed by deadlines, bills, and responsibilities, imagination often feels like a luxury, something reserved for celebrated artists and designers, Silicon Valley disruptors, fiction writers, or curious children. The rest of us have to live in the โreal worldโ where money, relationships, and everyday problems like health and sickness demand our attention. Who even has time to live an imaginative life ?
But what if imagination isnโt a luxury, but a fundamental part of how we make sense of the world, and live within it ?
In the ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐ผ๐น ๐ผ๐ณ (๐ฅ๐ฒ)๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป, Remy Low draws from research in sociology, history, and neuroscience to propose a radical idea that we are ๐ข๐ญ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด living imaginary lives shaped in an imaginary world. This is an evolutionary feature of modern humans as a species. So, the question is not who has an imagination and who does not.
The real question, then, is not ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ we imagine, but :
What kind of imaginary world are we living in ?
Whose imagination defines the way we live ?
And, how can we break out from dominant narratives of imagining the world so that we can see, live, and act differently ?
The ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐ผ๐น ๐ผ๐ณ (๐ฅ๐ฒ)๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป unfolds through a series of talks and workshops that probe these questions and experiment with imaginative possibilities through creative practices that can be applied to everyday life.