Dreams We Practice
A session on imagination with Ruha Benjamin
What does it mean to dream responsibly? What realities must we unlearn to make space for collective freedom? This intimate program invites a small circle of students, artists, organizers, and thinkers to collectively explore the radical possibilities of imagination as a tool for liberation and social transformation.
Departing from Ruha Benjamin’s latest work Imagination: A Manifesto this interactive, book-club-style session offers space for exploration and reflection, not just on the text, but on the possibilities it opens up for collective dreaming and/in action. Overall, this program gives participants an opportunity to informally engage with Ruha herself about the very topics Imagination: A Manifesto explores and adresses.
What to expect:- Imagination Speed-Dating
Inspired by Benjamin’s Imagination Playbook, we’ll open with an interactive exercise that sparks creative dialogue between participants. - Interactive talk w/ Ruha Benjamin
Our Moderator will use curated excerpts from Imagination: A Manifesto as springboards for communal thought and conversation, with commentary from Benjamin. - Dialogue Circle
Here, participants get to share questions, insights, and reflections, in dialogue with Benjamin. - Hangout session
We’ll close with a relaxed and informal moment over coffee, tea, soft drinks, and snacks. It is an opportunity to connect more personally and continue the conversation in a cozy atmosphere. This is also an opportunity for a book signing. Bring your copy!
Ruha Benjamin is Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab. Her award-winning books include Race After Technology, Viral Justice, and Imagination: A Manifesto.
Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha BenjaminA world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn’t strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. In Imagination, Princeton University professor Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future.
Would you like to attend this program, but don’t have the means to pay for a ticket? Send an email to info@felixmeritis.nl, we can work something out.
