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A sustainability education consultancy dedicated to facilitating more effective ways of teaching and learning sustainability.​
"...the environmental crisis invovles a crisis of imagination,

the amelioration of which depends on finding better ways of

imagining nature and humanity's relationship with it".

Lawrence Buell, 'the environmental imagination', 1995.

we belive the importance of imagination is often overlooked
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educating   the   imagination


​is the most important thing we believe we can do.




​imagination is not of the unreal

it is a pathway to understanding
the more real
​that is beyond our experience.
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Imagination is not dislocated from the world
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it is deeply related
​ with the earth.


​Imagination is not inconsequential


   it has material consequences
on the brain, body
​and environment.
Our powerful and precious imaginations need to be noticed, educated and developed.
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​The ability to imagine is not a specialised gift or talent but a muscle that can be strengthened and developed.
But an our imagination be educated?
​Sure, we do it all the time: with living pictures, different perspectives, TOTAL - LIVING PICTURES - AIR DRAWING - VISUALISATION - STORYTELLING - THINKING INTO OTHERNESS and plain old experience.

Theses imaginative strategies offer new pathways for thinking about sustainability and our own capacity to truly understand something, where it is information or our own belonging.


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​The Environmental Imagination Map​
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The Environmental Imagination Map is a conceptual tool for organising what it is to understand sustainability. It is also a teaching and learning tool designed for classroom use in any topic. The Environmental Imagination Map is a simple diagram that can demystify the complexities of sustainability issues. The map is the only student-centered framework we have in Environmental Education.

The simple map is the basis of Environmental Imagination Education. 
As individual selves, we are all edged by the limits of our experience, of here and now. In the map, the axis of time and space move through us as 'here' and 'now'; so the self is in the centre. Anything outside the centre is beyond our immediate experience, and requires imagination to be understood.
Sustainability lives at these edges.
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Experiential knowledge has been the basis of truth and reality for centuries. However, the idea of Sustainability demands new ways of understanding the world and our relationship with it. The ability to IMAGINE that which we cannot experience directly; the past stories, the future consequences, the global and micro perspectives of our materiality and experience. 
We can increase the effectiveness of teaching and the clarity of learning by educating the imagination. 


Education is changing. As well as attaining knowledge, and memorising factual data, we need to imagine to learn and understand. Our human imagination is often neglected and misunderstood, but it is a powerful and essential element of our consciousness, and our ability to think big, reflect, empathise and futurise.

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​ENVIRONMENTAL Imagination Education has a big commitment: to advance the quality of Education for Sustainability and the perception of imagination in education around the world. 

Our resources are for anyone wanting to understand sustainability especially for 
for educators, school principals, facilitators, and curriculum writers wanting to engage ​with sustainability better or enhance  education for it. ​