Ranked #1
Clodagh Harris on how Citizens' Assemblies rekindle the imagination
Clodagh Harris on how Citizens' Assemblies rekindle the imagination
There’s a lot of talk about Citizen’s Assemblies these days. Some people say, as the UK flounders to try and find a way ... Read more
11 Feb 2019
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32mins
Ranked #2
Kali Akuno on imagination and “the ways we can and must resist”
Kali Akuno on imagination and “the ways we can and must resist”
As one of the co-founders of Cooperation Jackson and Executive Director of the non-profit division of Cooperation Jackso... Read more
13 Nov 2018
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46mins
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Ranked #3
Eric Holthaus on imagination: "Our brains are constantly being encouraged to give up"
Eric Holthaus on imagination: "Our brains are constantly being encouraged to give up"
Eric Holthaus was once called ‘The Rebel Nerd of Meteorology’ by Rolling Stone magazine and is a journalist who writes a... Read more
19 Mar 2018
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34mins
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Robert Macfarlane: "the metaphors we use deliver us hope, or they foreclose possibility"
Robert Macfarlane: "the metaphors we use deliver us hope, or they foreclose possibility"
They say you should never meet your heroes. They’re wrong. I recently had the huge honour of spending almost an hour in... Read more
30 May 2018
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42mins
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Lise van Susteren on 'Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder' and its impact on the imagination.
Lise van Susteren on 'Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder' and its impact on the imagination.
A while ago I was reading a report about the psychological impacts of climate change, and came across the term ‘pre-trau... Read more
23 Apr 2018
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31mins
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Sarah Woods on imagination and “the crisis of what comes next”.
Sarah Woods on imagination and “the crisis of what comes next”.
If it is true that we are living through a time in which our collective imagination is increasingly devalued and underno... Read more
5 Mar 2018
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17mins
Ranked #7
John McCarthy on the captive imagination
John McCarthy on the captive imagination
John McCarthy on the captive imagination by Rob Hopkins
6 Feb 2018
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38mins
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Donna Rose Addis on the hippocampus, the future and brain networks
Donna Rose Addis on the hippocampus, the future and brain networks
As the research stage of the book I am writing on imagination wraps up, it was a real treat recently to chat to Donna Ro... Read more
19 Feb 2018
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34mins
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Maggie Jackson on 'Distracted' and the fragmentation of attention
Maggie Jackson on 'Distracted' and the fragmentation of attention
Today we're talking about technology and the fragmentation of attention with Maggie Jackson. After an early career as a ... Read more
16 May 2018
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44mins
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David Sax on imagination and the revenge of analog
David Sax on imagination and the revenge of analog
David Sax is a journalist living in Toronto, Canada, and he is the author of the book The Revenge of Analog: Real Things... Read more
30 Apr 2018
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28mins
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Hilary O'Shaughnessy on the Playable City
Hilary O'Shaughnessy on the Playable City
What happens when play disappears from our cities? In a report for the National Trust, Stephen Moss writes "a potential... Read more
23 Jul 2018
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17mins
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Dominique Christina on "using the raw material of possible to say all of the urgent things"
Dominique Christina on "using the raw material of possible to say all of the urgent things"
It was such an honour to speak to Dominique Christina. Her work is remarkable. Her voice is insistent and fierce and t... Read more
31 Oct 2018
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39mins
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Evin O'Riordan on brewing and the imagination
Evin O'Riordan on brewing and the imagination
One of the most fascinating craft breweries in the UK can be found nestled in a series of arches beneath a railway bridg... Read more
12 Feb 2018
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48mins
Ranked #14
Stephen Duncombe on imagination, spectacle and desire.
Stephen Duncombe on imagination, spectacle and desire.
One of the best books I read this summer was Stephen Duncombe’s ‘Dream: re-imagining progressive politics in an age of f... Read more
26 Sep 2018
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27mins
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Lucy Neal: "imagination is the most important thing in the whole wide world
Lucy Neal: "imagination is the most important thing in the whole wide world
When I started writing what is now called 'From What Is to What If', the first person I spoke to was Lucy Neal. And now,... Read more
18 Mar 2019
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51mins
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Kyung Hee Kim on 'The Creativity Crisis'
Kyung Hee Kim on 'The Creativity Crisis'
The initial spark that set me off thinking that I needed to write a book about imagination was reading a study by a prof... Read more
21 Sep 2018
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46mins
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Jackie Andrade and Jon May on imagination, lemons and Functional Imagery Training
Jackie Andrade and Jon May on imagination, lemons and Functional Imagery Training
Welcome to our last blog of 2018. I'd like to thank you for joining me on this journey over the year and for your suppo... Read more
18 Dec 2018
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47mins
Ranked #18
Daniel Raven Ellison on “what if London were a National Park City?”
Daniel Raven Ellison on “what if London were a National Park City?”
This is a website about the power of “what if?”, and how, in a time of existential challenges, we might take “what if?” ... Read more
6 Apr 2018
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37mins
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Dawn Chorus 2018
Dawn Chorus 2018
I went to the Soundart Radio SoundCamp's dawn chorus walk this morning (6th May 2018). Here's how the dawn chorus sound... Read more
6 May 2018
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55mins
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Gabriella Gomez-Mont: “Imagination is not a luxury"
Gabriella Gomez-Mont: “Imagination is not a luxury"
A question that has arisen in my research around imagination and also in the recent interview I did with Stuart Candy wa... Read more
3 Oct 2018
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1hr 13mins