This paper explores the role of imagination as our primary cognitive mechanism for anticipating and deliberating on the future, and adopts the perspective that imagination is an innate human faculty that can be developed and deployed through particular methods and practices. Imagination is a crucial component for individual self-efficacy, collective agency, and our broader capacity for long-term survival and thriving as a species, driving fundamental advances in all arenas of human activity, from technological innovation to literature and the arts. We present a set of three case studies that we used to build our Imaginative Collaborative Framework, which aims to foster imagination within interdisciplinary teams. This framework extends research on collaboration to specifically account for, and foster, imagination, and identifies three primary areas of practice: creating conditions, defining processes, and shaping outputs.

本文探讨了想象力作为我们预测和思考未来的主要认知机制的作用，并认为想象力是一种人类天生的才能，可以通过特定的方法和实践来发展和运用。想象力是个人自我效能、集体能动性以及我们作为一个物种长期生存和繁荣的更广泛能力的重要组成部分，推动人类活动各个领域的根本进步，从技术创新到文学和艺术。我们展示了一组三个案例研究，用于构建我们的想象力协作框架，旨在培养跨学科团队的想象力。该框架将合作研究扩展到专门考虑和培养想象力，