Idea for September 2022: social imagination

My idea of the month is social imagination

We came across this recent piece of work by the excellent stone carver Teucer Wilson in Wiveton in north Norfolk. The phrase is a bit glib perhaps: who could disagree? And though it’s often attributed to Confucius, or to Eleanor Roosevelt, it seems to have been coined by a preacher called William L Watkinson.

Anyway, it feels like many of us have spent too much time cursing the darkness recently: instead we need the social imagination to shape a future that’s socially and spiritually better, not just technologically more clever. And that’s the argument in Geoff Mulgan’s book, Another World is Possible, and in this podcast.