How can designers help people imagine and reimagine the world around them? Can provoking and supporting imagination be part of the role design plays in transforming our societies towards more equitable and sustainable futures? Can imagining with people, with co-design methods, enable hope in an age of crisis? Writers focused on how people think about the future have used terms such as the “crisis of imagination” (Amitav Ghosh, 2016; Max Haiven 2014) to capture a notion that there is a shortage of new ideas. In an era of urgency for some and apathy for others, it is easy to feel overwhelmed with powerlessness at the complexities and uncertainties of the situations ahead of us. As engaged designers, how could we help society to move beyond the current crises of imagination? How might we empower communities to imagine otherwise, away from taken-for-granted future visions, such as the idea of perpetual economic growth? In this course, you will develop and apply your design skills in the direction of bringing out people’s creativity, enabling them to share and externalise their ideas with others, giving voice to ideas that are underrepresented in dominant narratives, helping design researchers understand people’s imaginaries, and turning ideas and fabulations into forms that people can engage with. You will develop and try out your own co-creation tools and activities to bring people’s imaginations—and possible futures—to life, in the present.