Climate Change & the Imagination - Streamable Recorded Dialogue

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In this wide-ranging and intimate conversation, poet Alice Oswald, theologian Rowan Williams, scholar-musician Valentin Gerlier, and cultural strategist Alan Boldon gather to explore the role of imagination in times of planetary emergency. These are thinkers and makers who have long walked the edges of language, myth, and meaning—each bringing their own craft and care to the question of how we respond, feel, and create in the face of ecological unraveling.

Rather than offering easy answers or policy solutions, this dialogue dwells in the deeper work: what it means to see clearly, to listen to what’s missing, and to remain in relationship with the unknown. “To imagine,” Oswald says, “is the way we are when we are using the whole of our apprehension.” Williams adds, “We have to arrive where we are—because our problem is we’re not where we think we are.”

Expect a conversation that is both poetic and precise, gentle and unflinching. It asks what happens when we stop treating imagination as decoration or escape, and instead recognize it as “a kind of starting point… a tuning in to seeing the world more accurately.”

Join the conversation, and begin listening more deeply to what our time is asking of us.

In this wide-ranging and intimate conversation, poet Alice Oswald, theologian Rowan Williams, scholar-musician Valentin Gerlier, and cultural strategist Alan Boldon gather to explore the role of imagination in times of planetary emergency. These are thinkers and makers who have long walked the edges of language, myth, and meaning—each bringing their own craft and care to the question of how we respond, feel, and create in the face of ecological unraveling.

Rather than offering easy answers or policy solutions, this dialogue dwells in the deeper work: what it means to see clearly, to listen to what’s missing, and to remain in relationship with the unknown. “To imagine,” Oswald says, “is the way we are when we are using the whole of our apprehension.” Williams adds, “We have to arrive where we are—because our problem is we’re not where we think we are.”

Expect a conversation that is both poetic and precise, gentle and unflinching. It asks what happens when we stop treating imagination as decoration or escape, and instead recognize it as “a kind of starting point… a tuning in to seeing the world more accurately.”

Join the conversation, and begin listening more deeply to what our time is asking of us.

 

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