Interrogating imagination infrastructure

Summary

A careful review, for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, of what ‘imagination infrastructure’ could mean. Ruth Potts and Keri Facer argue that a “critical, creative imagination” needs time, space, repeated encounters and laws that protect diverse ideas. They also doubt the term: infrastructure is “just one among many metaphors”, and managed technocratically it “may in turn become part of the problem”.

Rationale

We lean on the word too, naming relational, learning, physical and financial infrastructure among the conditions for this work. Their warning that it invites central management is one to heed.