Collective Imagination Practice Community

Who makes up the Collective Imagination Practice Community? This month we are pulling focus on the people, projects and practices that have fed into, and have been nourished by, this Community. Through our various activities - seed-funding for imagination practice, peer-to-peer learning Huddles, building our Community organising team - we have engaged practitioners across the globe, weaving together diverse perspectives, tending to a growing field of practice and mobilising to take action. Over the past 3 years we have distributed >£200k to seed-fund more than 90 projects, experiments, and interventions that deepen and spread the practice of collective imagination. In the coming weeks we will be sharing some of the projects that have received micro-grants of up to £3k via the Practice Fund, each creating ripples reaching people, places, organisations and beyond. Read about the projects that have been funded this year here: https://lnkd.in/edjrbbDd 🌕 Today we are spotlighting the project ‘More Somali than the Moon’ 🌕 This UK-based, collective sonic archiving project takes its name from a Somali myth in which the moon hosts a sacred tree containing our people’s collective souls. The project's primary goal is to challenge the systemic erasure of Khaniis (queer/LGBT) Somalis by creating a speculative sound archive that builds a future where we are not merely present, but are sacred, free, and integral to Somalinimo. The process was ignited with a recording from elder and collaborator Saida Sheikh-Ahmed, detailing the historic Sufi celebrations of Aw Cusmaanka in Wadajir, which included Khaniis songs and dances. Using repetition and echoing as the core methodology, they extracted sounds from dominant narratives and pulled them into their own worldbuilding. Reclaimed within a chain of echoes, these sounds became a dialogue with their Khaniis ancestors and descendants, weaving a new cultural memory into being. The photos on the 3rd slide are from a workshop and have been selected and composed to protect the identity of participants. Read more via the blog (projects are listed in alphabetical order, according to project title), and check out Dahab’s work on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/e84Wvrsv and Bandcamp: dahab.bandcamp.com #people #community #funding #imagination #somali #khaniis

As we welcome November, we are welcoming another month of enriching, expansive and thought-provoking Collective Imagination events, offered by our Community Weavers Dionne Williams 🙏Uri Noy Meir 🌍 and Devyn Harris, and more excellent practitioners from across the field. From time travelling to exploring the worlds inside our bodies, to imagination practice in local government and developing thinking partnerships... a marvellous array of offerings awaits you in November 🎆 You can find the dates, times and key info / sign up instructions for each of the sessions via this link: https://lnkd.in/edjrbbDd Thanks to David Alif Surid Heinemann and servane mouazan ICF PCC ACTC 🍉 for your offerings 🙏 Do you have any imagination events or sessions you would like to share? Feel free to detail your sessions below. #november #community #events #learning #imagination

What offerings have emerged from our Community?  Over the past three years we have been gathering and tending to a rich set of offerings, thanks to the work and dedication of our growing Community of imagination practitioners. These offerings have been written, stored and archived on various platforms, including Medium, YouTube, Notion and Hylo. Activities and connections springing from this Community over the years have included: 🎪 11 Huddles - peer-to-peer learning journeys - exploring imagination practice and the applications of it in place-based contexts;  💸 Distributing micro-funding via the CIPC Practice Fund to over 90 projects, spreading imagination practice across the world;  🌱 Hosting Seed Swap sessions, during which folks have gathered to share ideas, methodologies, networks and more;  🗣️ Talks from the Edge of Practice - inspiring gatherings with practitioners working at the edges of the imagination field; WATCH recordings of these sessions and more on our YouTube channel. READ reflections and learnings from the Community on our Medium blog. APPLY practices and CONNECT with practitioners via the Seed Library and Hylo platform. Links to all of the above can be found via our LinkTree: https://lnkd.in/edjrbbDd Grab a cuppa and explore the Community Offerings ☕ 🌱 #Imagination #Offerings #Explore #Archive #Community

What are Collective Imagination practices? If we are to build alternative futures, we must collectively untether from entrenched ideas and start from a very different foundation. Collective Imagination practice is the soil upon which that foundation is built. It enables us to engage with and embody different perspectives, weave together diverse perceptions and worldviews, and mobilise to take action. The Collective Imagination Practices Toolkit, developed and produced by Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), is a beautifully curated and practical guide containing tools from Collective Imagination practitioners around the world. The toolkit is for anyone who wants to build the capacity to explore and learn ways of creating better, more hopeful futures, together. Some of the contributors include Farzana Khan, Nkem Ndefo Camille Sapara Barton, Vanessa Reid, M.Arch, Azul Carolina Duque, Cheryl Hsu, Amahra Spence, Ella Saltmarshe, Christa Cocciole, FURTHERFIELD.ORG Ingrid Burkett and many more. On JRF's side Cassie Robinson, Sepideh Noohi and Hanna Thomas Uose were the driving forces behind the toolkit 💡 Check the toolkit out via our LinkTree, along with ways to get involved with the Collective Imagination Practice Community: https://lnkd.in/edjrbbDd #collective #imagination #community #practice #toolkit #systemsthinking

What is the Collective Imagination Practice Community (CIPC)? The CIPC — funded by Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and Arising Quo (arisingquo.com) - began as part of Cassie Robinson’s 'Imagination Infrastructuring' at JRF in 2022. Stewarded by Huddlecraft and Canopy - A Social Imagination Project, the community is a global, diverse network of 1000+ people, exploring alternative futures and shaping systems that prioritise joy, hope, and freedom to dream. The CIPC is founded on the belief that relationality is central to systems change. We are deeply interconnected with other humans, plants, animals, and the more-than-human world, and our ways of learning and being must reflect that. An ecosystem mindset of learning and collaborating is key to generating the waves of transition needed to tackle today’s polycrisis. Growing the capacity to imagine is like flexing a muscle. Our community is focused on expanding these practices, so more people can experiment, learn, and grow this skill in diverse contexts — what we call "growing the field” of collective imagination. Over the past three years, we’ve been: 💸 Micro-funding collective imagination projects via our Practice Fund 🕸️ Creating shared spaces for learning and application, such as Huddles and Seed Swaps 📚 Facilitating collective sense-making, using our Medium blog and the Seed Library to harvest and curate learning and reflections Our Seed Library contains a growing number of collective imagination practices and projects, gathered by CIPC practitioners. Explore, be inspired and apply the practices to your context: https://shorturl.at/b8Tmn 

How might we engage our imagination together? Collective Imagination Practice brings people together to dream, rehearse and enact different possible futures. To see beyond the extractive and broken systems that are making it impossible for people, the planet, and the more-than-human world to thrive. It draws on many ways of knowing and being: healing, grieving, sensing, dreaming, storytelling, myth, social foresight, histories of place, somatics and more. It also requires us, and supports us, to sit with complexity. There is no single way to practice collective imagination — it’s pluralistic, alive, and shaped by different cultures, languages, and lived experiences. We invite you to imagine with us. Find out more: 📖 Read our blog: ‘What is collective imagination? And how is it different?’ 🔗 https://shorturl.at/3PnoX 📽️ Video: Watch the video: ‘How do we explain Collective Imagination Practice?'  🔗 https://lnkd.in/eJ7B2Q53

Our community of collective imagination practitioners has been building over the past three years and we are sharing our story 🧶 Here we will be weaving the threads of collective imagination, making sense of the practice and telling the tales of the projects, people and moments that are making imaginative waves in the world 🌊 We will also be sharing how the community has been built - the seeds of activities and the germination of infrastructure that has supported us to grow year on year - and what might come next in the field of collective imagination 🌱 We hope you will join us on this journey! We would love to know and speak to your curiosities and questions as we travel onwards 🏔️ #community #collective #imagination #future #creativity #play #nature