The database
Re.imaginary is a database of methods for co-creative work.
Methods are meant to elicit transformative mindsets to: disrupt habituated ways of thinking, embrace new and expanded perspectives, and foster regenerative and eco-logical approaches to sustainability.
Methods vary in nature – drawing from storytelling, visual learning, design thinking, and craft-making – as well as in purpose – from visioning, to brainstorming, to empathizing and connecting deeply.
The website lists more than 40 Methods, with detailed instructions, to apply in isolation or in combination with other tools and approaches.
The website also contains a Resources section: materials, tips, workshops designs, theoretical insights, that can be of inspiration to researchers, facilitators, educators.
All methods are designed to fit into the structure of a Theory U process, a facilitation framework for transformative change, authored by Otto Scharmer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and used globally across different organizational settings – business, educational, non-profit, governmental.
The toolkit
An earlier version of the content displayed in the Re.imaginary website can be found in the Toolkit “Arts-based methods for Transformative Engagement”, published in 2018.
Our collective
The Re.imaginary database and Toolkit are the result of years of co-creative work by six young researchers and practitioners brought together by the EU-funded project SUSPLACE (Sustainable place-shaping, Grant agreement no. 674962). Our collective is composed by Kelli Rose Pearson, Anke de Vrieze, Sara Grenni, Siri Pisters, Marta Nieto Romero, and myself.