Re-imagining is a place for people who believe that the stories of the Modern world no longer sustain us, bringing us to brink of catastrophe – ecologically, economically, spiritually. Our troubles cannot be solved merely through technology, or even politics; rather, we need to re-imagine what it means to be human. We seek new stories, new poetics, new ideas – and we put our ideas and stories into action. This work requires the wisdom of those at the margins, and by those with the courage to imagine a new world. Click here to learn more.
The ReImagining Podcast
The ReImagining Podcast with Theodore Richards explores a world in crisis and transition
with guests who are taking various approaches to reimagining what it means to be human.
Click here to learn more. Click here to listen to our latest episode with Bayo Akomolafe.
Featured Articles
After the Pandemic:
Reimagining Teaching,
Parenting, & Childhood
By Theodore Richards
This is the enduring image of the pandemic: the sad and lonely child, learning “remotely.” It is the child who encapsulates this moment, the child who forces a reckoning with the world we’ve made, the future we’ve mortgaged, the cost of our hubris. It is perhaps then the only logical consequence of this system that our children should end up this way: alone, staring at a screen.
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Love and Liberation
By Dominica McBride, PhD
Living in a Mess
By Todd Hoskins
There is a Story Written
on My Daughter’s Body
By Theodore Richards
Poetics & the Crisis
of this Moment
Three Poets
Wind at the Tarn
By Katherine Hauswirth
Tornado at
Nomad’s End
By Eric D. Lehman
Letters to
Edward Abbey
By Burt Bradley
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Re-Imagining Education
Empowering educators to take a deeper look at the stories told in our schools and to re-imagine them in transformative and
nurturing learning spaces.
Learning Opportunities
Classes, workshops, and lectures that help to empower people to re-imagine who they are and their place in the world.
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