
Imagination Toolkit
We are building a toolkit to help people imagine.
The tools below are currently most suited for use in group/workshop settings, but we hope to develop tools for anyone to use online individually.
All of the below have resources free to download and we encourage anyone to use them in their own settings. Please do let us know how you find them!
Scenario-based imagining
Participants choose a particular scenario from everyday life. They work through what that scenario would ideally look like in 20/30/40 years’ time, stepping through each part of the journey. There are guiding questions on the back of the cards. Click on the image above to download a print-ready copy of the cards.

Draw like a child
This is a fun ice-breaker exercise to get people thinking differently, to introduce the idea that barriers to imagination can be thrown aside. When we were children, we drew without restrictions - people could have 4 heads or live in the sky! This can be an free-drawing exercise or you can use the scenario cards to guide the exercise.
Throw-away cards
These cards contain different barriers to imagining a better future. Participants physically cast these aside to symbolise removing those barriers. You can download the above as print ready cards, but the phrases could also been used on physical objects, like a stone, to better symbolise casting it aside.
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Doughnut
This is a simplified version of Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics. It allows imaginers to put their ideas into the safe space where possible. Click the image to download a print-ready version.
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