The radical imagination and how to change the world with our minds (really)

The goal of the workshop is to (1) give participants an insight into their current imagination of the future and how it affects them, (2) to then learn to be "better" at imagining the future, (3) discover they can imagine very different futures, too, and (4) to make such imagining a daily practice.

By using creative methods, such as the ones Rob Hopkins explains in "How to fall in love with the future" and others, the workshop aims to make the imagination a sphere of intentional cognitive behaviour. Becoming more intentional about the imagination is a potentially radically transformative way to discover other ways of acting in the world.

The workshop departs from the notion that current imaginations in leftist spheres are often pessimistic, niche, or clearly bordered by ideology. The central concept of "the radical imagination" takes imagining to be something done socially (as opposed to individually) and sees it as a way to discover unknown territory. It is perhaps the only way to escape capitalist realism and fascist horizons.