Letter on the art direction

Letter on the art direction

By Shanice Da Costa A kaleidoscope for your toolbox In the warm spring of 2021, amidst the heart of a pandemic, UNHCR’s Innovation Service explored the dimly lit edges of imagination and speculative storytelling. The Innovation Service refreshing dew also gathered...
Letter from the editors

Letter from the editors

By Lauren Parater and Cian McAlone, Co-editors Imagination is about articulating a desire for a better world, picturing a life beyond what you know, and understanding how we can use creative practices as part of building a better future. In the pursuit of building new...
Difference as personal power

Difference as personal power

This activity was developed by Jane Pirone and Barbara Adams for a series of speculative storytelling workshops titled “Collective Effervescence”. All artwork by Jane Pirone. Barbara Adams is a sociologist whose interdisciplinary research looks at how knowledge is...

A visioning spell

A visioning exercise you can do alone or together on letting go, power and liberating...

Harmony, a dancing God

By Shanice Da Costa Shanice is an artist and training environmental scientist. Having Indian heritage, being an immigrant in both UAE and Germany, she has a deep appreciation for multicultural belonging (and multicultural cuisine). Professionally, she has an interest...