The Imagination Project

Join us as we discuss the future of education

The 2nd edition of the AIME x LearningPlanet Imagination Circle looks at the role of imagination in tackling the climate crisis and caring for the planet.


This IMAGI-NATION {TV} session will bring together leaders tackling the climate crisis with imagination: leading new campaigns for climate action, blending climate education into classroom curriculum, or building funds for nature.


The show will be hosted by Jack Manning Bancroft (founder, AIME) and Olivier Brechard (COO, LearningPlanet). They’ll bring together the imagination, knowledge and energy of people of all ages and backgrounds—students, educators, climate activists, researchers, designers, thinkers and more–who will dive into what imagination means and how it's being used to tackle the climate crisis.

You can view the first Circle here!
https://youtu.be/41crLB74w1w

Wednesday 25 January 2023
Educating at the Margins
10am CET / 7pm AEDT
In this first IMAGI-NATION {LABS} episode of the LearningPlanet Festival, hear how despite the many barriers that exist, inspiring initiatives are imagining solutions to provide access to learning, notably for refugees. From setting up schools for 2,000 students in 24 hours, to transporting libraries in barely the size of a cardboard box, discover people around the world who are fighting for education of those in most need.

Speakers
Fiston Muganda, LearningPlanet Youth Fellow, Stateless
Annesofie Norn, Curator, Museums for the UN, Denmark
Muy-Cheng Peich, Director of Education, Impact and Research, Libraries without Borders, France
Gerhard Pulfer, Education in Displacement Lead, Porticus Foundation, Austria

More info - https://festival.learning-planet.org/programme/?_event_name=imagination%20tv

Thursday 26 January 2023
Non-violence and Peacebuilding
10am CET / 7pm AEDT
In this second episode of the IMAGI-NATION {TV} series, we explore solutions for building peace through imagination. Johan Galtung, a principal founder of modern-day peace studies, coined the concepts ‘negative peace’ and ‘positive peace’*. Negative peace refers to the absence of violence, while positive peace goes beyond this by building mutual cooperation, social justice, harmony and imagination.

To truly transcend the conflicts of our times, current and past, we need to harness the immense power of imagination to build peace and a better future together. In this spirit, join a selection of inspiring voices, who, in the middle of conflict, seek solutions through their imagination. Hear their ideas and testimonies of using such imaginative thinking to strive for peace as individuals, and in their communities.
(*Johan Galtung, Peace in World Affairs: Geopolitical and Public Imagination, University of California, Santa Barbara May 23, 2017 | Volume 10 | Issue 34)

Speakers
Pavel Luksha, Director & Founder – Global Education Futures, Russia
Johnny J. Mac, Associate Director of World house project, Stanford University, USA
Ahmad Nisar, Founder, Changemaker, Afghanistan
Wiktoria Perner, Youth Fellow, Founder, Esprit du Corps, Poland
Dr Webster Zambara, Senior Project Leader in the Peacebuilding Interventions Programme at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, South Africa

More info - https://festival.learning-planet.org/programme/?_event_name=imagination%20tv

Friday 27 January 2023
Bringing together Wisdom traditions and Science in the IMAG-NATION
10am CET / 7pm AEDT
AIME is on a mission to build IMAGI-NATION, a digital nation bringing together a global network of unlikely connections to imaginatively tackle challenges together. This episode hears from those who are at the intersection of wisdom and scientific traditions, on how we can build unlikely, meaningful connections in communities for better futures, from the bottom up. Whether through mentoring, open knowledge labs, or extreme citizen science, this episode will explore and connect a range of approaches to bring together wisdom and sciences for community development.

Speakers
Ila Gregory, Youth Team Member, YouthxYouth, United Kingdom
Muki Hacklay, Professor of GIScience, Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) research group, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
Perumal Pearl Oriele, Youth Fellow and Co-founder, Pearlitas of Wisdom, South Africa
Ila Gregory, Youth Team Member, YouthxYouth, United Kingdom
John Davis, Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab, Deakin University, Australia

More info - https://festival.learning-planet.org/programme/?_event_name=imagination%20tv

Saturday 28 January 2023
Imagination in every classroom
10am CET / 7pm AEDT
AIME and LearningPlanet started the Imagination Circle with the goal of bringing imagination into every classroom. This session will bring together the dreams of leaders, teachers, students and more, to share the strategies for building imagination in the classroom. Let’s build a toolkit of solutions to bring imagination into the heart of schools worldwide!

Speakers
Ron Berlinski, Youth Fellow and Founder, Curiosity Learning, Netherlands
Nikita Desai, Global Coordinator, Design for Change, India
Nia Lewis, Teacher and Learning Architect, Youth Inc, Australia
François Taddei, Co-Founder and President, Learning Planet Institute, France

More info - https://festival.learning-planet.org/programme/?_event_name=imagination%20tv