They even created a Civic Imagination Office to better inspire and support the imaginations of local communities, and to enable their ideas to become reality.

realised from my research’, Baden later reflected, ‘that we desperately need cultural offerings with positive visions of what a sustainable society might look like, to inspire hope and positive change.’9

This infrastructure will be more than a set of foundations or a scaffold. It will look, in fact, more like a playground: which exists, not subordinate to or below some other, more important work, but as a structure in its own right, one which supports, co-creates, and constantly re-produces play, creativity, imagination. Not something which can be

our engagement with possibility is, at all times, constrained (e.g., by what is, by previous imaginations of what could be, by their enactment). This doesn’t mean that we cannot envision radical possibilities but that constraints – themselves never fully fixed in time and space – are enablers of our relationship with what is possible, both in its m