IMAGINE AGAIN.

a startup platform for participatory research into collective imagination about global issues

What would you learn about the state of our global health if you were to research the ever-changing expressive zeitgeist of our species and other beings’ imaginations? If we knew how to invite and research honest expressions virtually from each of our imaginations about the nature of our profoundly unique perceptions of reality, how would we know if the sum adds up to a coherent healthy whole?

I invite you to breath into your embodied senses, and imagine in this moment in your internal immaterial dreaming consciousness…

All material walls are becoming immaterial senses… gently yet suddenly for you, the whole planet becomes viewed with a filter that obliterated doors, keys, locks, window shutters, and jackets… Where you once only saw impenetrable cement structures, mountains, and archways that obstructed your view, NOW all you can see are naked living Souls, imaginative electromagnetic fields tethered to fleshy scaffoldings, exploring the edges, dirts, crusts, and abysses of this world.

Imagine laying on your back, though you literally may remain sitting here reading the words on the screen, on sun-kissed moist grass. Feel the soil softening until it envelopes you and lusciously pulls you into its depths. Imagine, while breathing deeply, that you are sinking through grains of moist earth, through impossibly firm cold and hot layers of stone and magma as you meanwhile feel no physical sensations… you are falling inward towards the center of the earth just watching and listening to the clarifying mirages of humans, creatures, fantasies, memories, histories, dreams, nightmares, truths, falsehoods, liminalities, magic, illusions, delusions, visions and epiphanies. Now imagine these immaterial mirages expressed anew abstractly and realistically in motion on millions of rectangular surfaces, reflectant and flickering in constant motion. What would that look like, sound like?

Imagine that you have now fully sunken to the center of the Earth where a perfect 360 degree view of the planet locks in. Floating in suspended gravity while painlessly dancing in a fishbowl of magma, just tilt your head a few degrees to one side and you are watching the imagingeist of a unique people, unique ecosystem, unique language, unique context, witnessing unique dilemmas, desires, and outcomes. Where is there more health? Where is the more need? Where is powerful inspiration coming from and where is it headed? Where is there danger and how did it spark and then travel as a story across the planet? Where is the courage? How could you tell?

What can art-based research into 

the zeitgeists of our expansive imaginations

about pressing global issues 
look, feel,
and sound like? 

How can art equalize  
dynamics in
 how we 
understand, 
seek and 
achieve shared salutogenic goals?

___ Carmiella Zorzi Excerpt from live process, facilitated at the Viva La Paz Art and Peace Festival in Costa Rica virtually in 2022

2020… Building a new platform, from Nothing to Something

The ways in which we imagine and communicate about any subject --- be it the environment, technology, migration, public health, economics, equality etc. --- affects how many options we see in solving their problems. How can the virtual space be better utilized to playfully experiment with ideas about what is possible?

What if there were a platform for creative media able to channel attention, experimental collaboration, resources and results towards pressing global issues?

How does arts-based research into our imagination about global issues look, feel, and sound?

What does art-based research mean in practice? Carmiella’s full slide deck from ImaginGeist’s first ever in-person art-based research workshop at HFK, Bremen, exhibits her application of the Expressive Arts [EXA] Research Methodology and the participant students’ resulting artworks.