From Functionalist to Dream Guide
Shifting from limiting possibility to cultivating imagination and vision.
Focus: Imagination, vision, and expanding possibilities.
Design is often constrained by questions of feasibility and funding before new possibilities have a chance to breathe.
Dream guides resist the urge to collapse vision into practicality too soon. They help people imagine futures that are just, regenerative, and compassionate, and they remind us that dreaming itself is a form of design. By guiding communities through creative practice and collective imagination, they create space for the futures we want to rehearse into being. Dream guides focus on possibility, vision, and expansive thinking, rather than immediate problem-solving or outcomes.
