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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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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A lovely article from Nathan Dunne of The Guardian, showing us how understanding others can be a pretty basic art. With screens and space removing us from each other, something as simple as life drawing connects us. An intimate study of an unknown body reminds us of our own memories and feelings, and that others…
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A fun example of lateral thinking with a serious message. Something that looks like a gimmick has an obvious purpose – to clean up litter – alongside a couple of more subtle ones about our behaviour. Seeing the consequences from another perspective might have us eating crow indeed. As you enter Puy du Fou, a historical theme…
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One “wooden spoon at a time”. In this article from The Guardian, Rhik Samadder explores craft and the philosophy of “welldoing”. Getting stuck in with a new and varied band of social media and consumerism-bucking champions, he finds solace and community in the reward of the self-made. As we get ever-farther from tangible outputs, throw down…
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Our ability to create is what distinguishes and defines us as humans, and what we can achieve when we pool this resource is infinite. Unfortunately, some of humanity’s more damaging endeavours can lead us to doubt our ability to effect change. In her new book, Augustin Fuentes goes on an exploration of human creativity and…
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