#6 The power of imagination

The power of imagination

Imagining the future, with Koert van Mensvoort.

Time to let our creativity run wild.

It is an essential skill to envision those ‘unexpected’ future scenarios and come up with creative solutions to the challenges ahead.

Meet Koert van Mensvoort.

Koert is a multimedia artist, philosopher, and founder of Next Nature.

Humans have been telling each other stories since the beginning of time.

It's the details in our stories that allow us to truly experience a scenario.

But what is creativity?

We asked Koert.

Back to Koert.

So why is creativity so important?

The best way to predict the future is to make it.

- Koert van Mensvoort

Speculating is about asking the “what if” question.

Let's try that out.. Click through to go to the next screen.

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You’ll see: it requires a lot!

Your answers provide starting points for developing solutions. You could develop or design something for a future where humanity establishes new colonies in space.

You may have noticed that we incorporated a nod to Star Trek in the previous screen.

What does Koert think about the link between fiction and the future?

Take a look at this picture.

Lab-grown meat?

Click on the plus icons to read more. Read it clockwise!

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That sounds quite futuristic, doesn't it?

In 2014, Koert and his colleagues wrote a cookbook that focused on lab-grown meat. This cookbook has 45 recipes that show what the future of ilab-grown meat might look like.

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In Koert's own words...

In summary.

This chapter covered the following: 




You're another big step further!

Now that you know how to give your creativity complete freedom, it's time to learn how to work towards a future you want in the next module.

Module 6 Completed!

UP NEXT: A spot on the horizon


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