TY - JOUR
T1 - Collaborative imagination
T2 - A methodological approach
AU - Finn, Ed
AU - Wylie, Ruth
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge the sponsors and supporters who made this work possible. The Center for Science and the Imagination has been championed throughout its existence by President Michael Crow and the broader Arizona State University community, whose faculty, staff and students are critical to our purpose and our success. Our space futures project was sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (grant number NNX15AI31G ); Our Evoke project was sponsored by The World Bank (grant number 7171335 ). The work of imagination ultimately comes down to a community of practice.
Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge the sponsors and supporters who made this work possible. The Center for Science and the Imagination has been championed throughout its existence by President Michael Crow and the broader Arizona State University community, whose faculty, staff and students are critical to our purpose and our success. Our space futures project was sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (grant number NNX15AI31G); Our Evoke project was sponsored by The World Bank (grant number 7171335). The work of imagination ultimately comes down to a community of practice. We are deeply indebted to the team of CSI collaborators and our broader network of allies, alumni, and fellow travelers, far too numerous to name here. Special thanks go to CSI stalwarts Joey Eschrich, Editor and Program Manager, Nina Miller, Design Strategist, Bob Beard, Communication and Public Engagement Strategist, and Cody Staats, Business and Operations lead. Thanks also to Alissa J. Haddaji and Mateo Pimentel, who assisted in data collection, analysis, and project coordination for our space futures project.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s)
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - This paper explores the role of imagination as our primary cognitive mechanism for anticipating and deliberating on the future, and adopts the perspective that imagination is an innate human faculty that can be developed and deployed through particular methods and practices. Imagination is a crucial component for individual self-efficacy, collective agency, and our broader capacity for long-term survival and thriving as a species, driving fundamental advances in all arenas of human activity, from technological innovation to literature and the arts. We present a set of three case studies that we used to build our Imaginative Collaborative Framework, which aims to foster imagination within interdisciplinary teams. This framework extends research on collaboration to specifically account for, and foster, imagination, and identifies three primary areas of practice: creating conditions, defining processes, and shaping outputs.
AB - This paper explores the role of imagination as our primary cognitive mechanism for anticipating and deliberating on the future, and adopts the perspective that imagination is an innate human faculty that can be developed and deployed through particular methods and practices. Imagination is a crucial component for individual self-efficacy, collective agency, and our broader capacity for long-term survival and thriving as a species, driving fundamental advances in all arenas of human activity, from technological innovation to literature and the arts. We present a set of three case studies that we used to build our Imaginative Collaborative Framework, which aims to foster imagination within interdisciplinary teams. This framework extends research on collaboration to specifically account for, and foster, imagination, and identifies three primary areas of practice: creating conditions, defining processes, and shaping outputs.
KW - Framework
KW - Imagination
KW - Interdisciplinary
KW - Methodology
KW - Narrative
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U2 - 10.1016/j.futures.2021.102788
DO - 10.1016/j.futures.2021.102788
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85110233052
SN - 0016-3287
VL - 132
JO - Futures
JF - Futures
M1 - 102788
ER -