IMAGINE is a digital magazine celebrating the art and culture of the human imagination.

Launched on the first-annual Imagination Day on October 9, 2021, in honor of John Lennon’s 81st birthday and the 50th anniversary of his song, Imagine, IMAGINE brings together many of the world’s most imaginative people to speak on the power and importance of the creative imagination.

As a manifesto and Declaration of Imagination, IMAGINE is a call to imagine and re-imagine the role that imagination can play in creating a better world and enhancing the quality of our lives.

What is imagination to you? What does it mean to imagine? Why is imagination important? How are you applying imagination in your life and work? How does imagination help us become better people and live better lives? IMAGINE collects and presents inspiring answers to these questions and more from today’s global thought leaders.

Submissions have poured in from visionaries across many fields, ranging from scholars of the imagination, creativity, and the arts, to philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, mythologists, and astrophysicists, to cultural policy experts, science authors, and science fiction writers, to creative artists, social entrepreneurs, museum designers, Disney executives, and Grammy®-winning musicians.

Contributors come from all cultures, nationalities, and countries, such as America, Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, India, Malaysia, Australia, Argentina, Russia, and beyond.

Altogether, this group represents some of the most influential and biggest names in the world of creativity and imagination. The total scope and impact are astounding and a testament that in today’s world we need imagination more than ever.

Rachel Armstrong

Imagination is the door to other worlds. Without it, we are trapped in a single reality that is bound by an eternal present. Confined to incremental change we draw from a static value system that does not reflect the rapidly changing environment around us. Imagination provides the key that enables us to see beyond the world as it presents itself so that we may conjure forth alternative possibilities as new configurations of space, matter, and time that help us invent our reality anew and forms the foundation of hope.

Rachel Armstrong is Professor of Regenerative Architecture at KU Leuven, Belgium whose work explores the possibility of built constructions with characteristics that are associated with living things in that they can grow, metabolise, “feel,” die, and from their remains can be regenerated.

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