Foundations of Envisioning

The work of creative democracy is, in fact, creative. Imagination is not a child’s playground, but rather, it is one of humanity’s most powerful and primordial forces – to author worlds of the mind. Critique has limited pragmatic value if it is never followed with generative envisioning of better possible worlds. Envisioning has both organizing and scholarly ends. Vision can alter the flow of organizational life. 

It can also produce models and schema that gird theory. In addition to generative imagination, envisioning also involves planning. Planning is often required to transform social conditions. Based on observations, experiences, and imagination, planning structures ideas in a way that makes them easier to convey and more likely to be put into practice.

Skill Development for Envision

Envisioning can be improved by acquiring heuristic devices, imagining often and vividly, drawing ideas on paper, and learning planning/problem solving models.