Why then if Hounslow is resorting to squeezing planning applications to get their grubby hands on the CIL that a development attracts, can they justify this absolute tripe and colossal waste of money on yet more consultants spouting piles of B/S in some sort of 'corporate' speak understood by very few normal people?Hounslow Council...Collective imagination is about groups of people coming together to imagine and build the places they want to be part of. This practice is about moving beyond fixing what is broken and seeking new horizons, new worlds and new ways of being. This article ‘What is collective imagination, and how is it different?’ provides useful context and detail on the practice of imagining together.Local authorities and communities are increasingly looking for ways to unlock capacity for the big challenges we’re trying to tackle. Across the UK and beyond we’ve already seen some trailblazing collective imagination practice happening in local areas — like the Camden Imagines project embedding “municipal imagination activism” in their council; and policy makers coming together in an Interspecies Council at The River Roding.In this Huddle we’ll gather a number of collective imagination practitioners based in London, a selection of community and organisation leaders in the Hounslow area, and folk working in Hounslow Council. Together we will pool skills, resources and networks to:Create community-owned visions of the future;Explore big and challenging questions affecting communities in an expansive way, for example around care, ageing, learning, housing and work;Look back as well as forwards to acknowledge and include our individual and collective histories in the making of our futures;Include humans and the more-than-human world in our visioning;Explore how future visioning can support relationship building, decision making and action in the present.MORE HERE: https://medium.com/.../imagining-together-in-hounslow-an...
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