Where imagination is our most advanced technology
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
AI + Imagination Curriculum for People and Planet
An immersive learning experience for civic storytelling
Welcome to an ecosystem of AI-powered games, lessons, and interactive experiences where young people imagine, design, and build protopian futures that unlock real-world civic agency.
Imagination as the human advantage
Only 8% of stories are about the future—and most are dystopian. Yet stories and experiences largely determine what we believe is possible. In an age of AI, imagination metabolizes disruption, uncertainty, and designs cultures technology alone cannot create.
Here, we treat imagination as core infrastructure, not a soft skill.
How It Works
A journey through three stages: what is, what if, and what could be…
AI World Building Game
Design future civilizations based on values. Generate immersive worlds in real time using a growing dataset of collective futures.
Open Imagination Curriculum
A modular curriculum designed for classrooms, museums, and cultural institutions that combines futures thinking, storytelling, and ethical AI frameworks.
Each experience connects participants to real civic opportunities through the Civic Futures Toolkit, helping translate imagination into participation.
Civic Action Pathways
A Blended Approach
Strengthen imagination as a muscle
Discover strategic futures thinking
Integrate ethical AI frameworks
Drive leadership and civic impact
Why Technology (and why now)
AI is already shaping how young people learn, work, and imagine. Avoiding it doesn't reduce its impact. Young people face real anxieties about job displacement, algorithmic bias, environmental cost, and power concentration—but current approaches either avoid technology or treat it as inevitable.
Read our AI ethics framework.
Created Through Collaboration
About Our Partner Conscious Futures
Conscious Futures is an independent collaborative studio led by Kate Barranco. Born from years of work at the intersections of imagination, systems change, and care, Conscious Futures exists to design pathways toward futures that are both more protopian, creative and grounded in possibility .
Digital Resources
Explore the Sandbox
We're building an open learning hub where AI + imagination tools, practices, and resources are shared globally—accessible to all who seek them, not gatekept.
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Bring the Sandbox to Your Community
This curriculum is modular, adaptable, and context-responsive. Designed for collaboration with schools, cultural institutions, nonprofits, funders, and learning communities worldwide.