Social Imagination

Written By wojtek szumowski

Social imagination offers a disruptive perspective, a new organization of meaning, revealing new possibilities, roles, and relations through which products or systems can actively participate in shared human experience.
 
We apply imagination as strategic, transformative energy to reframe design situations toward the human dimension, seeking meaning in the new context of needs, values, and relations.
We are in a moment when we need to continue learning new things and new ways how to put this world back together, in equitable and resilient ways.

Learning by imagining that things could be different when we re-prioritize human values and intentions embedded in objects, technology, material and social context.We need a concept that not only addresses the physical and embodied characteristics of the tangible but also could capture social properties, ethics, aesthetics, and cultural traits. 


Social imagination is the most advanced design process we have to start putting this world back together in equitable and resilient ways.


wojtek szumowski

I am an inventor and experience designer who sees the connected world as a place full of potential for surprise, imagination, and possibility for new relations, where people & technology together unlock the experiential potential of every moment.

My energy draws from a life perspective of a poet and sociologist, moving across different cultures and fields of human experience. Applying social imagination and poetic perceptiveness, making connections, composing relations, revealing emotions, meaning and the why.
As a poet and experience designer I am interested in tender investigation of curious, emergent forms of our relationship with technology and each other.

https://www.hello-wojtek.com
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