Home Overview Themes Resources Visuals Context Associates Contact Overview   Significance of the domain name: www.un-imagine.org Emergence Contrasting organizing principles: international, intelligible, imaginative Strategic context Knowledge management evolution Nature of Union of Imaginable Associations Institutional context Psychosocial energy from polarization Emergent higher-order symbol Operational implications Indicative examples Intent FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Nature of Union of Imaginable Associations   Associations Imaginable Union Institutional context   Historical origins Three-stage emergence Themes   Aesthetic associations and sustaining patterns Challenge of "the pattern that connects" Creativity and design Dynamics of collective imagination Identity and destiny as a process of (re)imagination Image management Imaginative engagement with the "real" Imaginary groups, places and relationships Imaginative education & imaginal training Imaginative leadership & governance Imagining explanations Innovative environments Paradigm change and new thinking Metaphoric parallels and correspondences Paradoxes of imagination management Resources for imaginative processes Virtual reality Aesthetic associations and sustaining patterns   Music Plastic arts Poetry Challenge of "the pattern that connects"   Recognizing it Entrainment by it Communicating it Dynamics of collective imagination   Challenge of groupthink and premature closure Challenge of unchecked divergence Challenge of quenching enthusiasm Incorporating variety Sustaining the imaginative process Identity and destiny as a process of (re)imagination   Imaginary identity and destiny Reinventing oneself Image management   Credibility reinforcement Cultivating an image ("talking it up")" Image makeover ("rebranding") Negative campaigning (vs positive campaigning), rumour-mongering Imaginary groups, places and relationships   Imaginary and mysterious groups Imaginary and mysterious places Imaginary relationships Imaginary and mysterious groups   Conspiracies & Illuminati Secret societies Société Imaginaire Imaginary and mysterious places   Atlantis Camelot Places of power / Points of pilgrimage Shangri-La, Shambhala Imaginary relationships   Friends of the spirit Imaginary friends Totemic animals Imagining explanations   Alternative explanations and revisionism Hypothesis formation Omens (auspiciousness, inauspiciousness) Traditional superstition Alternative explanations and revisionism   Future (Armageddon, etc) Historical Long-term human development accounts Long-term human development accounts   Channelled Religious doctrine Traditional Innovative environments   Artists' & writers' colonies Hermitages Intentional communities Research laboratories & Technopoles Solitude Metaphoric parallels and correspondences   Biomimicry General systems implications Possible parallels and their replication Ensuring image coherence Possible parallels and their replication   Esoteric parallels ("as above, so below") Galactic and extraterrestrial parallels Historic parallels and replication Paradoxes of imagination management   Ensuring image coherence Resources for imaginative processes   Fantasy (books, movies) Insights from magic Nature Tools and processes for enhancing creativity Virtual reality   Artificial life Artificial worlds Virtual communities and societies Resources   Specific documents Collections of documents Other documentary resources Visuals   Selected presentations of interrelationships between UIA databases Selected Screen-shots of Problem and Organization Networks in Virtual Reality (PDF images) Network visualizations (PDF images) Gallery of screen shots of virtual reality displays (interrelated problems or organizations) Experimental representations of entity interrelationships (using SVG) NetMap visualizations of questions, world problems, global strategies, and values Network visualizations (PDF images)   2001: Spring maps (organizations, problems, strategies, values) 2002: Network analyses (organizations, problems, strategies, values) 2003: Network analyses (organizations, problems, strategies, values) 2004: Network analyses (organizations, problems, strategies, values) NetMap visualizations of questions, world problems, global strategies, and values   Problems and strategies: Energy / Water / Strategies against violence Questions: Peace-related / Faith/Prosperity-related Pattern-language Human values Context   Association context (map) Complementary initiatives Research resources Historical associations Complementary initiatives   Cognitive Fusion Reactor (ITER-8) Union of Imaginable Associations University of Earth Union of the Whys Research resources   Laetus in Praesens Historical associations   Union of Intelligible Associations Union of International Associations Mankind 2000 / Humanité 2000 Contact   FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Contact

Significance of Domain Name (URL) of the Union of Imaginable Associations - / - The web address of this site (the URL) is designed to challenge easy assumptions about this initiative. Use of the prefix "un-" (www.un-imagine.org) may therefore be variously understood as: stressing the value of a contrarian approach by also implying the merit of a "negative capability", in contrast to uncritical contemporary emphasis on "positive" approaches -- thereby raising the question of the implication of "unimagining" dominant images in favour of more creative alternatives introducing a healthy degree of self-mockery as a corrective to unfruitful presumption pointing to the fundamental importance of cultivating attitudes in anticipation of the "unimaginable" -- beyond the cultivated images of reality -- in the spirit of preparedness of the injunction to "expect the unexpected" highlighting the widespread challenge of reliance on the "unimaginative" in a period when imaginative responses are perhaps one of the few possibilities of avoiding a range of disasters provocatively implying that the initiative is in some way related to those of the United Nations -- whether or not a United Nations of the future should indeed be specifically associated with some such imaginative approach implying a conventional static form of "union" -- when the intention is rather to favour understandings of union as characterized by continuing emergence from a dynamic process An alternative URL (www.u-imagine.org), associated with this site, makes the point that in a very important sense the radical process of (re)imagining promoted here is an opportunity open to each and everyone -- namely one's own personal responsibility rather than that of any imagined collectivity.

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