I am just so thrilled about what is happening working the Watchet community, Onion Collective, the artist Reilly Dow and our Moral Imaginations community in developing our collective imagining process and working with people and seeing how deeply it impacts them. This last 4 days has been beyond words, but what we are hearing is that this process is healing and deep for people, and opens a collective creativity that was previously unimagined.
The outcome of Moral Imagining is deep community connection, a wealth of a sense of self- and community-empowerment, a fresh creativity and a fierce desire to protect what is important to them: their relationships, creativity and ideas for the future. Very excited about what is happening.
Artwork emerging from the 5-day immersive Imagination Lab with the Watchet Community:
Art by Reilly Dow + the Watchet Moral Imaginations Lab group
These are just a few glimpses of what is emerging from the Lab… There has been artwork, poetry, collective song writing, collective artworks, storytelling, and imagination and theatre techniques to explore relationships to the future generations, nature, time, community and place. Through our methodology we are supporting 20 community members to explore what a ‘next generation economy’ for Watchet looks like — re-attaching to the things that are important, named for now ‘Attachment Economics’. We will be posting more over the coming weeks and will be publishing a manuscript of the sessions as well as audio clips, poetry, stories and the artwork.