Lesson Two: Power and the Imagination

Goal: Developing Communities of Practice and Praxis

Objective: Facilitate the use of imagination in the classroom and access your senses and embodiment as power/superpower.

Task: To use power to connect to art and community. 

Prompt to action: Choose one piece from the archive.  Document your response to these questions:

• What power is in the piece? 
• What is your sense of the author’s power? 
• What is yours while you access the piece? 
• Does the author’s power and your power combine/collide/create a sphere of influence that you might access in the future?

Resources

Connect to The Futures Project, a global community of changemakers.

Learn about Ford Foundation’s 2024 Disability Futures Fellows.

Listen to Dr. Julian Chambliss on Afrofantastic and Afrofuturism.

Listen to The Henceforward, a podcast that considers relationships between Indigenous Peoples and Black Peoples on Turtle Island.