Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-167) and index.
Contents:
Chapter eighteen. Overview -- Chapter One. Stories from the field. Section Two. Practice Chronicles. -- Chapter two. Fantasy can help us breathe- Muslim youth group -- Chapter three. Bringing imagination to activism- Freedom school -- Chapter four. Mind blown! Grown ups freaking out- digital media and learning conference, Boston-- Chapter five. Em/power love: Building empathy and solidarity with each other- Salzburg Global Seminar -- Chapter six. Turning chairs to face the table- Bowling Green, Kentucky -- Chapter seven. Future of faith?- Fayettesville, Arkansas -- Chapter eight. Pakistan, from the heart: Civic imagination in context of violent extremism -- Chapter nine. Imagination in the classroom- New media for social change -- Chapter ten. Of two faced bunnies in the woods- Brussels, Belgium -- Section three. The practice guidebook -- Chapter eleven. General notes about facilitation -- Chapter twelve. Workshop: Origin stories- Imagining ourselves as civic agents -- Chapter thirteen. Workshop: Infinite hope- Imagining a better world -- Chapter fourteen. Workshop: Step into the looking glass- Imagining our social connections with a larger community -- Chapter fifteen. Workshop: Monuments from the future- Bringing imaginative dimensions to our real world spaces and places -- Chapter sixteen. Workshop: Remixing stories- Forging solidarity with others with different experiences than our own -- Chapter seventeen. Workshop: Creating an action plan- Imagining the process of change -- Chapter eighteen. Stories from the field.
Summary:
"The real world is full of challenges and the sheer weight of problems facing us can stifle the genius of our collective human creativity at exactly the time when we desperately need imaginative and innovative solutions. Responding to this, the Practicing Futures: A Civic Imagination Action Handbook harnesses shared values and taps the boundless potential of human imagination to break free of assumptions that might otherwise trap us in repetitive cycles of alienation. Utopias and dystopias have long been used to pose questions, provoke discussions, and inspire next steps, and are helpful because they encourage long view perspectives. Building on the work of the Civic Imagination Project at the University of Southern California, the Handbook is a practical guide for community leaders, educators, creative professionals and change-makers who want to sharpen their visions for the future and understandings of the how the past affects them. This book shares examples and models from our work in diverse communities. It also provides a step-by-step guide to our workshops with the objective of making our approach accessible to all interested practitioners. The tools are adaptable to a variety of local contexts and can serve multiple purposes from community and network building to idea generation and media campaign design by harnessing the expansive capacity for imagination within all of us"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
New literacies and digital epistemologies ; vol. 83
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.