The Radical Imagination Project is an ambitious response to a pivotal moment in human history—defined by rapid technological change, ecological instability, democratic uncertainty, and the rise of artificial intelligence. We see this not only as a time of crisis, but as a rare civilizational threshold that calls for collective dreaming at scale. The project convenes writers, artists, academics, technologists, young people, and community leaders—centering voices from marginalized and historically excluded communities—to imagine possible futures and build new worlds we can begin living into today. Using science fiction, fantasy, and speculative storytelling as tools, the Radical Imagination Project applies collaborative worldbuilding to reimagine core systems shaping our lives, including democracy, technology, economy, Indigenous futures, regenerative futures, mental health, and climate futures. This work extends the Collaborative World Art Movement, launched in 2023, which brings interdisciplinary communities together to imagine healthier, more sustainable realities through shared narrative, myth-making, and cultural creation.
Fiscally sponsored by Creative Visions, the Radical Imagination Project is activated through traveling salons, panels, and immersive workshops that move through colleges, campuses, cities, and communities. These gatherings generate shared fictional worlds that are expanded through story, art, film, and collective play—offering participants, especially young people, a way to step beyond inherited logics and imagine new symbols, archetypes, and social possibilities. A central pillar of this work is International Worldbuilding Day, a global observance held annually on February 18 to celebrate the practice of imagining new worlds through speculative storytelling.
In 2026, International Worldbuilding Day marks the public launch of the Radical Imagination Project through the Chez Gallery—a traveling salon (from chez) that serves as a living site for dialogue, worldbuilding, and cultural activation.
Together, these efforts advance a growing global movement grounded in the belief that imagination is not escapism, but infrastructure—and that radically imagining the impossible is how new realities become possible.
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