Radical Imagination: Visions for Liberatory Futures
Co-create radical visions for liberatory futures through radical imagination, collective visioning, and collaborative worldbuilding.
Course Overview
Embark on a transformative two-day journey into radical imagination, discovering tools and methods that cultivate bold visions for liberatory futures and new worlds. This intensive, interactive workshop guides participants through personal mapping exercises, collective visioning sessions, and collaborative worldbuilding practices that center care, liberation, and lived experience. We will co-create radical visions for justice-centered futures, exploring alternative ways of being and doing that challenge current systems and pave the way for the world we're birthing together.
Who Is This Course For?
-> Designers and researchers seeking to deepen their practice.
-> Activists and organizers looking to imagine and build for new worlds.
-> Educators seeking new frameworks that cultivate collective visioning skills.
-> Anyone eager to explore radical alternatives to worldbuilding.
What You'll Learn
- Explore liberatory mindsets, tools, and methods for imagining alternative futures and worlds;
- Craft visions for liberatory futures through personal mapping, participatory storytelling, and letter writing;
- Brainstorm and identify the skills, knowledge, mindsets, and relationships needed for birthing a new world.
What's Included
Live Sessions
Interactive classes with your instructor
Session Recordings
Lifetime access to all recordings
Community Access
Connect with fellow learners
Certificate
Proof of course completion
Course Modules
DAY 1: Imagining
Roots collective imagination in personal history and lived experience, helping craft bold visions for the futures we are called to build.
DAY 2: Building
Moves from imagination and into action, generating discussion and co-creating ideas for what a liberated world requires across four pillars.
Real-World Project
Learners will develop a personal map of their visions for the future, and draft personal commitments that allow them to contribute to collective liberation.
Session Schedule
About the Instructor
Independent Design Consultant
Hanieh (she/her), is an independent design consultant, researcher, educator, and community organizer working in pursuit of people and the planet. Born in Iran and raised in Tkaronto on Turtle Island, her work is grounded in a commitment to gender equality, social justice, and collective liberation. She is co-founder of Thousand&One, a global feminist community supporting Women of Colour to thrive personally and professionally, and holds an MSc in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of York, UK.
1 Course Credit
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Need financial support?
We believe learning should be accessible. A limited number of partial scholarships are available for those who would not otherwise be able to join.
If cost is the only barrier, we invite you to apply thoughtfully below.
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August 8
25 students max
2 days
180 min / day
