Imagination Practice

I like the way Filliou describes the need to ‘practice…natural imagination’ p20. Imagination is not often thought of as something to practice.

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this also relates to Ruha Benjamin’s thought about imagination benjamin-2024-imagination

Thinking about Improv

In reading Sal Khan’s book about AI in Education khan-2024-brave-new-words] , I was captured by a scenario that he laid out where ChatGPT (his bespoke version of the model Khanmigo) would collaborate in a game of ‘yes and…’ as a way to encourage creative writing. One, I think this is a really interesting idea, and two, I started to think about improv (which I have been thinking about trying for inspiration) and the fact that it is very generative and playful and seems to be a great activity for ‘imagination practice’(whatever that actually is). I wonder if there is more to be learnt from improv that I could take as inspiration