September 20, 2024

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Co-imagination may be a way for people to co-create a shared understanding of alternative futures.

Photo by Maureen Bridget

"Imagining future experiences in our personal lives is not always something we do in solitude. Rather, people can imagine a future by envisioning it together, co-creating a shared understanding of what that future could hold and, in doing so, growing closer and more connected." - Zoë Fowler, Brendan O'Connor 

ARTICLE: Collaboratively Imagining the Future Can Bring People Closer Together in the Present

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Start where you live: Learning to see local power

BOOK: Hyperlocal: Place Governance in a Fragmented World

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The places that hold us together

ARTICLE: Want to Support a Healthy Democracy? Start Here.

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A pattern‑based approach to public problem‑solving

PDF: Pattern Languages for Public Problem‑Solving: Cultivating New Seeds for Social Change

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America Unfinished: A plain-sight inventory of the state of the nation