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• 1 media/Slider-blank-white-background-300x214.png media/4581946701_bf03210f57_b.jpg 2016-04-06T12:17:13-07:00 Civic Imagination Project: Overview 15 image_header 2016-06-20T16:44:51-07:00

  “We cannot change the world unless we imagine what a better world might look like.”

  —Henry Jenkins (2016)

   

  Scratch an activist and you’re apt to find a fan. It’s no mystery why: fandom provides a space to  explore fabricated worlds that operate according to different norms, laws, and structures than those we experience in our “real” lives. Fandom also necessitates relationships with others: fellow fans with whom to share interests, develop networks and institutions, and create a common culture. This ability to imagine alternatives and build community, not coincidentally, is a basic prerequisite for political activism.

  —Steven Duncombe (2012a)

  
  We define civic imagination as the capacity to imagine alternatives to current social, political, or economic conditions; one cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might look like. Too often, our focus on contemporary problems makes it impossible to see beyond immediate constraints and engender a sense that youth voices and action are inconsequential.
  
  This Atlas contains a collection of stories that inspire the civic imagination originating from different parts of the world. Gathered from different places around the world, the stories fit three general genres:
  • traditional (mythic/religious and folk)
  • popular culture
  • biography of existing person (historical or contemporary)
  ​The stories were then migrated, remixed and re-created combining elements from one or more stories.
  
  Find out more about the contributors and their stories here.

  Welcome to the Civic Imagination Project.

• 1 2016-04-06T12:55:59-07:00 Migrating the Stories 8 Explore the Big Map and then remix Imagination by migrating stories to new locales google_maps 2016-07-21T08:34:21-07:00 These stories are new creations that have emerged from the Atlas through the work of its contributors. Storytellers explore the Atlas learning about stories from around the world and then work together to migrate story elements across the globe, creating story remixes that combine elements from existing stories and locations to create whole new ideas about the world and to highlight the creative strength of human migration.