RAUM+ZEIT E.V.

raum+zeit e.V. is a non-profit organisation founded in 2017 to enable constructive public discourses around the most pressing structural and systemic issues of our times. Room for imagination, doubts, ideas beyond what is deemed realistic and possible. "raum": room for thought. "zeit": time for action. 

Because, as bell hooks famously wrote: »What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.«

Together with our THE IMAGINATION AGENCY TEAM we have developed a prototype: The IMAGINATION DINNERS. These are designed to train our muscle of imagination, shift our attention from what there is to what there could be, and reframe our power in the now.

From a world of commons/without private property to worlds without racism and oppression, to the reimagination of the roles of literature, theatre or music in a just world, we have dived into several imaginations with experts, academics, practitioners, artists with a diverse and wide range of connection to the respective topics. E.g. at the second dinner, together with experts on local engagement, homelessness, city data science, politics, architecture & infrastructure, we explored the question: What if we lived in a world in which we humans, here in the industrialised and urban areas of the West, were capable of truly living locally? 

With this work, however, we are not only exploring, but slowly learning how to answer yet another question: 

What would a world look like,
where the imagination of just futures are not only possible,
but also accessible to all?
Especially to those humiliated into aiming
to merely survive?

We strongly believe that the transformation into a just world is not only possible, but it's already happening. At THE IMAGINATION AGENCY, we aim to move beyond what there is. From reaction into action, from deconstruction to construction, from analysis to practise. Towards what there already is.