NO MAD Times and Spaces
Pop-up thinking spaces for world building.
Based on metaphors that shift mental maps, we create NO MAD Times and Spaces: transformative moments, public formats and pop-up thinking spaces dedicated to civic imagination.
intro
Not just events — playgrounds for world building.
These are not just events. They are playgrounds for world building — spaces where people of different backgrounds, ages and professions can come together in humanity, humility, humor and creativity to share, shift perspective, rehearse the Future together, and open the door to desirable futures.
WHY THIS MATTERS
Change the story, change the world.
Many of today's collective situations remain blocked not because people do not care, but because they remain trapped inside inherited assumptions, polarised narratives, echo chambers and familiar scripts.
Civic imagination matters because culture is also a set of stories — the invisible architecture of world building. So if we want to change the world, we must also change the story.
This is why we need dedicated spaces for the Future: places where private life and public life reconnect, and where we reclaim our role as civic actors responsible for shaping what comes next.
We need places where people can:
- see the status quo with fresh eyes
- revisit unexamined assumptions
- attend unheard voices
- articulate counter-stories that make radically different and desirable futures visible.
what it is
Where imagination becomes
a shared civic practice.
These are spaces where people can rethink, re-engage and rewrite their relationship with the world as it is — and with the world as it could be. Not only to discuss the Future, but to begin reauthoring it.
They are not just events. They are platforms for world building, laboratories for imagining new ways to BE in the world, and visible spaces for the Present Future. Their purpose is not merely to gather people, but to help them revisit assumptions, notice emergent narratives, and prototype more life-giving ways of thinking and acting together.
what it offers
Civic Imagination takes six main forms.
It is a living experience designed to shift mindsets, approaches and the quality of collaboration itself.
Through cordial, creative and constructive conversations, it helps people clarify what matters, reformulate key questions, get out of an impasse, negotiate difficult situations, and reopen the field of possibilities. It is neither standard consulting nor coaching, but a public micro-practice of re-perception.
WHAT IT HELPS YOU DO
What Civic Imagination
helps groups and communities do.
WHAT IT GIVES YOU
What it gives you.
For youth and specific groups in need of reauthoring their Future, these formats also answer a vital need: to unlock imagination and create the erotica of the Future.