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.
Together, 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 tools and methods that provide a pathway to imagining alternative futures and worlds;
- Craft collective visions for liberatory futures through personal mapping, participatory storytelling, and letter writing;
- Brainstorm and identify the skills, knowledge, capacities, 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: SATURDAY (April 11th from 10:00 AM to 03:00 PM EST)
○ Map personal connections to inherited wisdom, resistance, and radical possibilities ○ Craft collective visions for liberatory futures through participatory storytelling and letter writing ○ Engage in deep visioning exercises that center care, liberation, and lived experience ○ Activities: Personal Mapping Exercise, Collective Visioning, Letter to the Future
DAY 2: SUNDAY (April 12th from 10:00 AM to 03:00 PM EST)
○ Identify and map the skills, knowledge, capacities, and relationships needed for building the new world ○ Co-create practical frameworks for implementing radical visions in everyday practice ○ Develop personal commitments to contributing to the liberation futures we imagine together. ○ Activities: Skills Audit, Collective Ideation, Commitment Circle
Real-World Project
Learners will create their own blueprint for a new world, including their visions for the future and personal commitments that allow them to contribute to collective liberation.
About the Instructor
Hanieh Khosroshahi
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.
$250
Course fee
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April 11
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