The Roots of Everything: Imagination as Resistance – On Dreams that Transform

We will work with a lesson and an assignment gifted to us from the cloud forest specifically for this workshop.

Drawing from Politics of Imagination and Sensual Futuring, we explore how visions of the future emerge and whose realities they carry or exclude. A short embodied exercise helps us leave habitual thought patterns behind and enter different temporalities: futures that do not run linearly, but instead grow, branch out, and regenerate. We ask: Which futures were taken from us? Which seem impossible to us, and why? And which are perhaps already beginning to unfold—quietly, like a forest under mist?

In this sense, we understand imagination as a decolonizing practice that disrupts dominant blueprints of the future and creates space for relational, more-than-human perspectives. Participants develop their own visions of the future—drawing, writing, and thinking with nature as their teacher. In doing so, it becomes tangible how imagination can become a stance: a practice that sustains political action, leadership, and collective organizing. The workshop connects theoretical impulses with experience-based approaches and invites us to conceive of futures not as distant horizons, but as something already taking root in the here and now.

This workshop is for people with a drive for action, whether on a small or large scale:

neighborhood changemakers, dreamers, cooperative members, and doers from all fields who want to sharpen their own vision.

The workshop will take place in German.

With a limited number of participants, registration is required:

simply write to us, tell us who you are, and why you want to take part in the workshop:

rootsofeverything@posteo.de

We will let you know at least one week in advance.

Image Credit: Elisabeth Weydt