In What Ways Might Imagination Improve Society?

206 IDEAS GENERATED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT 'CREATIVITY + SOCIAL CHANGE' STUDENTS ON 6 APRIL 2010 - HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT

What's YOUR idea for how imagination might improve society? Add your ideas in the comments section below. And plan now to participate in the Connecticut Imagination Conversation on Monday, April 19, in Hartford, Connecticut ... or host your own Imagination Conversation in your community.

1. Communicating
2. Open communication between groups
3. Stop cancer
4. Stop juvenile diabetes
5. Stop crimes within the same community
6. Feed the world
7. Improve living conditions
8. Respect people's sexuality
9. Discover or create new ways to safely and effectively mass produce food and other products
10. Lead to more openness, diversity, tolerance and integration of differences
11. Encourage creative conversations
12. Invest in creative education
13. End child abuse
14. Education will become an adventure that children will crave - no more dropping out
15. Tell them that you are happy with imagination, then they will join you
16. Teach the youth manners and morals so that they can grow
17. Create tolerance
18. Stop hunger
19. Celebrate diversity
20. Neighbors of the community care for each other more
21. Stop poverty
22. Be positive
23. Stop hate
24. Appreciate or accept people stepping out of the norm
25. I can use my imagination to encourage prisoners
26. Think before you act
27. Treat one the way you want to be treated
28. Providing ideas with individuals in society to solve problems
29. Teamwork or brainstorming in a group
30. Clarity of mind and soul
31. Respect life as a whole
32. Read other people's minds
33. Work with other people's strengths
34. Help those who need us the most
35. Fight racism -> open mindedness
36. Peace with others
37. Improve self-esteem
38. Encourage more active, positive citizen engagement
39. Encourage others to join organization
40. End homelessness
41. Creative ways to be healthy, maintain health, regain health, defeat disease
42. Show the society how important they are, then they will accept it
43. Through education
44. Team work
45. Talking things out
46. Appreciation of different types of beauty
47. Fly to new, livable planets
48. By laughing
49. Build a healthier place for my kids and other kids
50. Open-mindedness
51. Make a commitment
52. Love the curvalicious
53. Travel to new dimensions
54. Travel through time and space
55. I can use my imagination to help my own community
56. End frivolous spending in government
57. To infinity and beyond - explore the universe within and without
58. By coming up with different solutions for different issues
59. Helping neighbors, taking care of each other's children, watching out for one another
60. Allowing expression through art, music, theater and dance
61. Reading books
62. Give importance to all animals
63. Have a moment of silent (regrouping)
64. Live life ... one life, one blood, one love
65. Make batteries that never have to recharge for my cell phone and laptop
66. Make batteries that are environmentally friendly when disposed or recycled
67. Eliminate existing regulations against farmers in Connecticut
68. Open new doors
69. Greater-good technology
70. Warm, nurturing environment to support the development of great ideas
71. Through education, broadcasting
72. Through billboards
73. Playing a game on team building
74. Promote trust among individuals
75. "The world can live as one"
76. Live forever - never die
77. Don't be afraid of death
78. Stop discrimination among us
79. Say no to Botox
80. Play
81. Get kids to be more physically active and healthy
82. Move
83. I can use my imagination to improve the unemployment rate
84. Creative community building - creating jobs
85. Build magnificent cities - buildings, gathering places, parks, museums, schools, etc.
86. Make sufficient information available to the community
87. Visiting the sick
88. Helping those in need (homeless)
89. Believing in yourself
90. Make veggies taste better
91. Build places that encourage creativity, instead of limiting it (i.e., Billings Forge and the G. Fox Building, respectively)
92. Encourage kids to continue with school and get educated
93. "Imagine there's no hunger, I wonder if we can"
94. Plant a tree
95. By communication
96. Travel to the past
97. Help third world countries
98. Bring out technologies that do not already exist. Similar to how real technologies can follow the imaginative, fiction-based technologies proposed in science fiction. How culture and arts can "invent" technology.
99. I can help the youth thing critically and explore their creativity
100. Creating meaningful jobs, reducing unemployment
101. Create/implement ways to care for and preserve the earth for generations to come
102. Make creativity a learning tool for society
103. Live Love Laugh
104. Have a social gathering
105. Love your neighbors
106. Less serious
107. Downloadable intelligence and knowledge (like in the Matrix)
108. It could give us new games to play
109. Share more with people in the community
110. Living for today
111. Spread the word by gathering with others or making a Web site for a fundraiser.
112. Interact with others more
113. Imagination can improve society through additional ideas being deposited into the "idea bank" and when there are more options, it can lead to more solutions to problems
114. Decrease the crimes among teenagers
115. Increase ideas among everyone (not just children)
116. Educate children to be creative
117. Spread the love
118. Encourage uniqueness
119. Marketplace of ideas
120. I can bring peace to the world
121. End drug abuse
122. Life will be interesting, stimulating, purposeful and a delight
123. Involve some stipends; it will bring people's interest
124. Ignite idea that would improve the community
125. Having dinner together - everyone likes to eat
126. Love like you haven't been hurt before
127. Humor - entertainment
128. Comedians will have better jokes and can make us laugh in different ways
129. Help people in the community to be more humble and to care for others
130. Open communication
131. Get some fresh air and fresh ideas
132. Live Love Laugh for a better me
133. Improve self-esteem and community confidence
134. I can use my imagination to create a farm
135. Improve or encourage people to eat healthier since one of my imaginings is about promoting organic food
136. Stop judgment
137. Improve the environment
138. Improve economy
139. Lead to healthier school lunches
140. Lead to healthier planet and humans
141. I can spread love throughout the world
142. Proper treatment of animals
143. Crime will decrease as there is openness, acceptance, a place for all
144. It will create jobs; many will participate
145. Share ideas
146. Hand shaking and hugging each other
147. Peace and love for every creature in the world
148. Stop greed and pointless want in society
149. Lead to society being more collaborative as opposed to individualistic -> solve problems together
150. Increase mental capacity about a problem
151. I can join different organizations within the community and help them resolve issues
152. Decrease unemployment
153. Accept each other
154. More advertisements/commercials
155. Through prayers
156. Listen to others
157. Less technology and more free play (outside)
158. "Imagine all the people, living life in peace"
159. Birth control that is 100% effective
160. Guns that are truly idiot-proof
161. Decrease healthy activities in kids in our community
162. Go shopping
163. By maximizing its potential
164. Establish better problem solving skills to introduce to children in school
165. By fostering problem solving potential in students and society's youth
166. My imagination can help encourage others
167. I can bring a sense of joy to others
168. Reduce teen drug abuse
169. Harmony and connectedness and unity among all cultures
170. Do it in many different ways, even in different languages, others will enjoy
171. Create something to challenge the community
172. Don't be judgmental
173. Challenge everyone to be the person they were meant to be; no judgment if that person turns out to be different than you expected
174. Open minded
175. Growth
176. Defer judgment
177. Improve existing ideas
178. Keeping a smile on people's faces
179. Decrease homelessness
180. Develop spirituality
181. Make known to the society why it is important
182. Be creative in arts and music
183. Develop strategies as a team or group
184. Dance
185. "No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man"
186. Never have traffic jams on the highway
187. Exploring new areas and investing tourist dollars in them
188. Focus on those young kids forgotten by parents and provide them with the love their parents don't give them
189. Free spirit
190. New ideas
191. Globalization
192. Defer judgment
193. Engage students more in their learning experience
194. Defer judgment
195. I can create a community organization to improve the community
196. Creative after-school programs
197. Being there for each other in neighborhoods
198. Keep kids out of trouble
199. Purpose and work for all
200. Do it with others, you will succeed
201. Go hiking with kids
202. Bring more family togetherness
203. The world is your family, embrace your diversity
204. Stop hate and war
205. Help globalize an economy while preventing the fall of local business
206. Care more for our elderly

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67 IDEAS GENERATED BY THE RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE 'THE AMERICAN NONPROFIT SECTOR AND PHILANTHROPY II' STUDENTS ON 7 APRIL 2010 - PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND

What's YOUR idea for how imagination might improve society? Add your ideas in the comments section below. And plan now to participate in the Connecticut Imagination Conversation on Monday, April 19, in Hartford, Connecticut ... or host your own Imagination Conversation in your community.

1. By creating a bike trail that goes through the whole town
2. Clean-up crews for the community
3. Neighborhood closeness to reduce crime/increase community
4. Help community to produce better housing for diverse people
5. Imagination could show people parts of the place they live like they've never seen them before
6. Dig a deep, underground housing complex
7. Build better buildings
8. Make environment of community
9. More conducive to green technology - less polluted
10. Could add beauty to community art projects, music, opportunities to participate
11. Imagine ways to be more energy efficient
12. Have a community-wide BBQ
13. Creativity in finding solutions to health problems
14. Create dams and levies
15. Think out of day-to-day procedures -> fill someone else's shoes for a day (i.e., public/union workers and laymen)
16. Space travel
17. Off to civilization (arts, theater, etc)
18. Better public welfare systems
19. Improve different fuel sources
20. Renewable energy
21. New ways of communication
22. Improve transportation
23. Make community more fun to live in
24. Create another system in some part of space (zoning)
25. Better government system
26. Better transportation system
27. Better schools
28. Better cars
29. More ways to share resources
30. Increase social interaction
31. Thinking outside the box for creative solutions to common problems
32. Better land use
33. Imagining a better community - like better schools - imagine what we wanted schools to be filled with when we were kids - putting it into action
34. Children govern the adults as they have better grip on imagination
35. Offer community-wide movie showings
36. Improve arts
37. Find different resources - imagine possible venues
38. Better ways to share resources
39. More accessible buildings with less technology handprint
40. Provide creative ways for people to make social connections - community projects
41. Find new uses for the resources/food sources near you
42. Have a community garden to grow food
43. Improve environment
44. Create a center for the arts
45. Community cooking classes - take garden product and put in school lunches
46. To expand people's minds to new things
47. To expand the local business base of the community
48. Provide opportunities for people to be things they've imagined - musicians, painter, teacher ...
49. Have a town-wide pajama day
50. Improve opportunities for high school graduates
51. Healthier consumer products/food
52. "Own" a block for clean up and community pride
53. Time travel
54. Imagination can give a community a different perception of old things
55. Recycle old things into props; or add areas in parks with toy boxes or props
56. Have playgrounds on every block
57. Better ways toward health care
58. Create climate of creativity to problem solve as community
59. Get out of our houses and interact with people
60. Better transportation for people with mobility problems
61. New social interactions that are authentic, unplugged and involve storytelling
62. Have a community clean-up day
63. Creative activities in classrooms
64. Create a community center
65. Recycle end products to use waste in different ways
66. Just go clean up a neighborhood without asking for anything
67. Involve more people in volunteer projects for community