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Beyond Imagination: Art’s Role in Impact Innovation

Art has the power to inspire change and reflect social conditions. But it has an other, less realized, potential: to be the bridge from our current world to a better one.

Expect more in this space about how best to be that bridge. For now though, an example: Blueprints for Better Worlds, a linked speculative fiction novella. Not only are its individual stories linked but it shares a connection with the real world, an evolving social good site. Today it has information. Tomorrow it will have tools and spaces for people to organize and implement progress.

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Blueprints for Better Worlds is a bridge to buildabetter.world

Myriad problems require myriad solutions. This work and upcoming others provide new ways of connecting – the actual world with more ideal ones, and people to the issues that compel them to bring about positive transformation.

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Inclusive Innovation

The last few weeks, more press has appeared about the power of new perspectives and the possibilities they provide. Though overdue, it’s welcome.

Wherever we’re going we’re getting there together or not at all.

Just as racism, misogyny, ableism and every other way of discounting and disregarding perspectives outside one group’s can permeate every layer and crevice of a society so too can the potential for progress when we open up to all perspectives. When a true “we” appears,  our vision and ability to deliver on a shared vision improves.

Don’t take our word for it. Just look at three instances of breakthroughs enabled by a change in perspective. Note that these are scientific breakthroughs. So even those pursuits grounded in empiricism and logic, the ones that are considered objective, benefit from inclusion. This is not identity politics (well no more than pretending identity doesn’t already play a role); it’s a recognition of reality and even that shifts when we make room for one another. 

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PreLaunch

What is Progress By Design’s mission?
It probably can’t be said better than this. Ladies and gentlemen, James Brown –