We love this truly international event and celebration, which sees hundreds of thousands of people coming together to come up with creative solutions. The fact that the Night of Ideas has grown so exponentially and become so popular in just four years shows that there’s a great appetite for this kind of community and shared thinking. And…
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From the top of the earth to the bottom of the sea, architecture has some exciting buildings in store for 2019. Whether it’s through the use of innovative materials, unprecedented scale, or whimsical ideas, common to all is the breaking of boundaries. These projects take in their purposes and environment, and work to create something…
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HundrED are a Helsinki-based organisation that we’ve written about before, working to innovate in education and schools. Here, Education Week visited their Innovation Summit and spoke to students about some of the projects honoured by HundrED. It’s of upmost importance to involve and understand the opinions of those these innovations are created for. Especially when…
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Too often, albeit with the best of intentions, we can be guilty of prescribing when it comes to young people and their future. Even indirectly, popular culture, science fiction and the news dictates what adults think is important for the next generation. This piece from Nominet is about a fifteen-year-old who’s changing this narrative. It…
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Our goal to support people to develop skills to reimagine the future inevitably means taking time to look at how far we’ve come. Understanding the rapid change around us will inform the agenda for change, discovery and learning. Whether technological advances or stark warnings, there’s set to be a lot more to come in 2019,…
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It probably comes as no surprise that the average worker loses their free and even paid holiday time to work. We love the phrase ‘time theft‘, and while these terms and initiatives like Australia’s Go Home On Time Day might appear extreme, it seems we need this push. After all, “time for anything other than…
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We’ve recently seen how AI can increase empathy, and now a video game might be able to do the same. With the prevalence and central role these games have in children’s lives, they could be an essential route into learning. In the first in a series of pieces on the outlook for AI, Greater Good Magazine…
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Now to a piece from Dezeen, where multi-sensory projects are multi-purpose. Advertisers, in this case Adidas, are engaging in collaborative installation projects to align their commercial message to wellbeing. Through special environments that immerse customers in multi-sensory spaces, partners are enhancing experiences and solidifying their brands. American rapper Childish Gambino has built a multi-sensory “wellness centre”…
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Exciting news about our 2019 Cultural Residency, exploring the Imagination Matters theme – Empathy. Each year here at the Institute of Imagination we run a residency inspired by one of our Imagination Matters themes. Through our Imagination Lab in Lambeth, the residencies deliver collaborative, interdisciplinary projects with visitors. Following 2018’s Places to Imagine residency and the wonderful…
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Much of what allays our fears about the ‘rise of the machine‘ depends on knowing that there are some functions that machines can’t replicate. In this piece from Salon, Sam Natapoff, President of Empire Global Ventures, looks at the magnificent commercial possibilities of AI, while also studying its limitations. Essentially, if humans can’t codify a feeling,…
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