“We can't build a future we haven't first imagined.”

Lisa Kay Solomon, d.school Futurist in Residence

For over 20 years, the d.school has been a hub of creativity and imagination where people learn to spark bold new ideas to create positive change even when the path ahead isn't clear.

On April 25 & 26, the Stanford d.school will host a generative, interactive, future-focused gathering for democracy makers, movers, and multipliers at the Stanford d.school. 

This highly experiential and interactive gathering is designed to activate and amplify  passionate, and grounded, "civic imagineers" who are committed to building a strong, robust, inclusive, and participatory  “democratic protopia” - a better version of the tomorrow than exists today.  

Together we will explore and expand our capacity for civic imagination and creative agency. Grounded in bright spots of today, this gathering aims to create and empower bold possibilities for a better tomorrow.

We know that a single gathering cannot solve the many challenges our democracy is facing right now; and yet, we also know that if we don’t spend time working on more positive postures and possibilities for our future, we risk staying in a constant state of reactive despair, or worse, disengagement.

This website captures the program design, and will provide access to video links, photos, visual resources and other materials to help all of us imagine and shape better futures.