2005-2016

The Origin Story: Planting Seeds of Change

Born out of the longest continuous human civilisation on Earth, with 60,000+ years of imagination backing us, AIME is an imagination lab to solve the greatest challenges of our times.

Created in 2005 as a global social change movement fuelled by imagination and mentoring, we helped alleviate inequity in Australia by unlocking:

25,000+ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students achieving educational parity & excellence.

10,000+ University students rising up to build the largest such volunteer movement in Australia and now the movement is spreading at scale internationally, with reach in 52 countries.

$8.9 worth of impact for every $ invested into AIME, equating to ~$1.17 Billion worth net direct impact to the economy (KPMG, 2018).

Welcome to AIME - The short story (2:29)

Australian Story - Long Story (47:10)

2016-2019

The Global Story: Expanding Our Network

Since going global in 2016, and having built deep roots across the continents of Australia, Africa, North America, AIME has been building a fairer world with our impact network now spanning 52 countries.

The complex story can be accessed in a couple of ways:

HARVARD CASE STUDIES: You can read more about the scaling journey through the Harvard Business Case Study on AIME.

FILM: To come on a journey with us, and ride the waves of change we went through, watch 7 Down.

Cogs - Short Story (2:29)

7 Down - Long Story (47:10)

2019-2023

The Systems Change Story: Redesigning Mainstream Systems

Understanding the need for changing the systems that underpin everything to truly build a fairer world, we have been building a suite of systemic solutions by centering Indigenous Knowledge Systems and intelligence from other marginalised sources and bringing them to the front of the design queue.

Beyond our core work on the ground in Australia, and around the world, we have:

Our systemic work has been recognised on Global Stages as one of the Good Design Awards - Gold - for Social Impact, Top 50 Organisations in Education, UNESCO's Global Education Coalition, Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Top 100 Leaders in Education, and so on.

Systems Change - Short Story (2:20)

Systems Change - Long Story (1:02:27)

2023-2033

IMAGI–NATION STORY

We have now digitised all of the above as AIME’s network of networks serving as the most multi-disciplinary cross-hatched lab for humanity, fusing the best of humanity powered by the internet to launch a virtual nation, IMAGI-NATION, that centres intelligence from outside the margins into the mainstream systems design and activates humanity as a whole to healthier patterns synched with natural economies.

This relational digital network is for all people from inside and outside the margins, and 50+ of some of humanity’s best organisations & networks per year for the next decade (i.e. a total of 500 organisations / networks max), to come together in unlikely connections and rewire our unhealthy systems & solve the challenges of our times.

To model a healthy regenerative sustainable system, AIME has an intentional death date set for March 2033, after which we cease operations & return our IP back to Nature and the ecosystem around us.

The symbol of the movement is theiconic AIME Hoodie that connects everyone from around the world, and the underlying economic framework that underpins our entire systems is "Hoodie Economics".

Indigenous Knowledge - The short story (0:52)

IMAGI-NATION Long Story (25:19)

Welcome to the home of a nation for human kind to find our way to centring the value of nature in our economies

AIME: A Journey of Imagination and Impact