Our hypothesis is that humanity will only find its ability to take control its own future by explicitly building on the power of imaginaries. Not in order to write a single grand narrative for the future, but rather to enable the creation and sharing of multiple stories and other imaginary productions, from every cardinal point in our multipolar world. We believe that this shared capacity to regenerate imaginaries is the condition for the emergence of new alternatives for action, new common paths for future transitions. This intuition is shared by a number of researchers, innovators, artists, sci-fi writers, utopians, futures thinkers, speculative designers. Throughout the world, their practices and hold immense potential… provided they are known and exploited. The Plurality University Network (U +) is a networked, open and global organization, whose mission is to connect and bring together those individuals and organizations who mobilize the resources of imagination to explore other futures. With two main objectives: 1) To make these practices and their productions more accessible to all, organizations and citizens; 2) To shift expectations and aspirations and influence public debates – thereby widening the scope of alternatives available to business, public actors and society at large.
