Imagine Chicago

Ten Years of Imagination in Action

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Table of Contents

imagine… a movement

Imagination as a Social Movement

What Is a Possibility Publication?

More Than Words…

Bringing the Inside Out…

Power of Two

A Mother’s Story

A City of Friends

Dream – Pair – Share Your City

Key Organizing Principles

Invitational Questions

 

imagine… an inspired future

Challenging Questions

 

A Conversation with the Future

 

How To: Appreciative Inquiry Questions

 

Sample Invitation Letter

Tim’s Story: The Melody of Life

Youth: Focus on the Future

The Power of Appreciative Inquiry

Assessing Intergenerational Inquiry

Building Blocks to the Future

Invitational Questions

 

imagine… choosing hope

Freeing the Spirit of Hope and Imagination

Sharing and Sustaining Hope

Hope Rocks

Dream Tree of Transformation

Hope in Shackles: Challenges

Invitational Questions

 

imagine… citizen leadership

Stretching the Boundaries of Citizenship

Citizen Leaders Program

Tina’s Story

Every Block is a Village

Meeting the Challenges

Invitational Questions

 

imagine… creative civic connections

 

Imaginative Parents: Gerardo and Agustina

 

Making Civic Connections

 

Expanding Urban Imagination about Museums

 

Getting the Word Out on Imagination

 

The Generative Powers of Civic Dialogues

 

Invitational Questions

 

 

imagine… positive possibilities

 

Weaving Visions into Realities

 

A Wish

 

Storytelling for Imagination

 

A Good Story!

 

Accelerated Learning

 

Open Space Technology

 

Organizational Challenges

 

Funding Partners in Mission

 

Renewing Education

 

Living from the Inside Out

 

Invitational Questions

 

 

imagine… the power of place

 

Revealing the City to Itself

 

Chicago’s Exquisite Corpus

 

The Headless Dancer

 

Learning Parks of Possibilities

 

Redefining Imagination Resources

 

Imagine Englewood if…

 

ABCD and Mental Mapping

 

Your City’s Learning Ecologies

 

Sacred Spaces, Public Places

 

The Whole-Sense City

 

A Shared Language of Imagination

 

Invitational Questions

 

 

imagine... a vital network
imagine... your next steps