Science Talk: How to Be an Imagination Activist

Join us for a talk with systems thinker and biologist Phoebe Tickell as she explores how principles of living systems can influence a broad range of sectors, including buildings, business, agriculture, and societal structures.

Phoebe Tickell is a renegade scientist, systems thinker and social entrepreneur. She is the founder of the organisation Moral Imaginations and creator of an approach called Imagination Activism: a new kind of activism powered by imagination to create new possibilities and new forms of action. She believes that the vast majority of our challenges are not resource problems, but imagination problems, and that imagination is a muscle that can be flexed to change the way we see – and act. Moral Imaginations trains public, private and community organisations to solve place-based problems, unleash energy and systemic change.

Imagination Activism is a radical and rigorous approach to practise and strengthen shifts in perception, move from dreams to action, to create positive change and chart bold, ambitious futures. It’s a new kind of activism powered by imagination to see the world differently and the skills to turn bold vision into action. Rather than fighting the old, it orientates to the new. At the heart of Imagination Activism is Moral Imagination – the ability to look at things as if they could – and should – be otherwise. By changing the way we see the world, we can create new possibilities and new actions that serve all people, the planet, and the coming future generations.

There will be time for Q&A at the end.

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