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The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues. By dreaming and building together in public, IA creates the conditions to shift culture and transform inequitable institutional and societal structures.

WHAT’S NEW

Toolkit: Agreement for a Just Partnership with Indigenous Culture-Bearers

Imagining America is pleased to launch a toolkit in collaboration with IA regional partner YoloSol Collective. This Agreement for a Just Collaboration with Bearers of Knowledge and Tradition is intended to build trust and address sensitive issues upfront, when working with cultural knowledge. It is based on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) created by members of YoloSol with Wintun/Maidu/Hupa/Yurok culture-bearer Diana Almendariz.

+ Toolkit: Agreement for a Just Partnership with Indigenous Culture-Bearers

IA Announces 2026 Regional Collaboratories

Imagining America is proud to announce the 2026 cohort for the IA Regional Collaboratories. IA staff reviewed many excellent submissions and we thank all who shared their visions as part of the call for proposals. We selected eight projects that examine how the work of imagining and practices of imagination are critical to organizing personal, institutional, and societal transformation.

+ IA Announces 2026 Regional Collaboratories

Digital Divestment Roundtable: Re-orienting to Community Tech

The session is open to the entire IA community, and will be hosted by PAGE Fellow Leah Friedman, and IA Communications Director Anuj Vaidya. We invite you to come with your own questions, suggestions for actions, tools, and resources, so that we may establish a community of practice specifically within the IA community, to collectively transition to technologies and platforms that hold privacy, security, and community connection at their core.

+ Digital Divestment Roundtable: Re-orienting to Community Tech

 

WHAT’S HAPPENING

 

 

 

 

National Gathering

Annual convening of public scholars, artists, designers, students, and cultural organizers addressing today’s pressing issues.

 

New Campus Host

IA has begun the search for a new campus home. Hosting IA is an exciting opportunity to become a national hub for public scholarship, and for activating the mission, vision, and values of IA.

Fellowships

IA fosters vibrant networks of graduate and undergraduate students from our member institutions.

 

Collaborative Research and Learning

IA’s research initiatives and learning opportunities leverage the intellectual and creative capital that is the consortium’s greatest strength.

WE ENVISION

We envision a world of expansive social imagination, constructed by multiple ways of knowing, where people work together to nurture healthy, vibrant, and joyful communities.

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OUR MISSION

The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues.

By dreaming and building together in public, IA creates the conditions to shift culture and transform inequitable institutional and societal structures.

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Funding has been provided by California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.