Utopian Thinking Workshop

  • Date: 9:30-13:00 on 15 October 2026 (followed by lunch)
  • Location: 4 West 1.7 (Wolfson Lecture Theatre)

Summary

In the face of a planetary crisis, many of us experience a growing tension between the realities of climate breakdown and social decoherence, a deep yearning to do something meaningful about them, and the business as usual of our work.

In this workshop we’ll step out of this business as usual for half a day to:

  • take an honest look at the mess we’re in,
  • identify constraints that prevent adaptive responses to it,
  • imagine practical utopias that ignore, contradict or dissolve these constraints, and
  • explore our contributions to these utopias as adjacent possibles – next steps on our individual paths through possibility space.

We will make sense, develop ideas, and gear up for action together – to turn the tension we experience into a source of energy and creativity.

Please click here to sign up for the event.

Organisers and contact

For further enquiries, please contact the IMI.

External event page

https://imibath.ac.uk/2026/08/26/utopian-thinking/