Questions, Gratitude, and the Gift of Shared Imagination

Saturday felt like a moment of collective breathing.

At the ArtScience Museum in Singapore, we gathered to celebrate not just a book launch, but a shared inquiry into what becomes possible when we imagine together.

IMAGINE: Embracing Chaos and Possibility in a Planetary Emergency is finally here, something we’ve been creating as a labour of love for years (more about that here). But this moment isn't really about the book, it's about what the book represents: a collection of 40+ voices from across the globe who dared to sit with uncertainty as fertile ground.

For those who couldn’t join us in person, here are some highlights!

When Questions Become Gifts

Two contributors to the book from Singapore joined us for the evening; engineer/designer Dr. Hossein Rezai and artist/photographer Marvin Tang embodied everything this anthology hopes to offer. Rather than providing neat answers, we explored questions that opened more questions:

What if a building could become a gift to its place?
What stories might emerge if we reimagined progress as healing?

Hossein shared how his design process fundamentally shifts when nature becomes the primary client. Marvin reflected on how his camera reveals the hidden narratives between Singapore's built environment and its living systems. Both reminded us that the most powerful ‘innovations’ often emerge from the spaces we don't yet know how to name.

A Living Collaboration

This launch happened in partnership with Singapore Design Week and my co-creator at anewkind, who initiated and believed in this project when it was still just an intention. To everyone who made this possible, the contributors who trusted us with their deepest inquiries, the partners who held space for complexity, the readers who showed up ready to sit with questions rather than demand answers, thank you.

For our Montreal community: I'll be bringing a limited number of books back with me in December. If you'd like to secure a copy, add your contact details here!

What Happens Next

The real magic of Saturday wasn't in the book itself, but in watching a room full of people lean into the discomfort of not-knowing together. Someone asked about holding space for grief and possibility simultaneously. Another wondered how we might practice regeneration while balancing the books. These questions don't have simple answers, and that's exactly the point.

In a world that demands certainty, IMAGINE is an invitation to remember that our most profound innovations emerge from collective sensing, from allowing questions to multiply rather than rushing toward solutions.

To everyone who has supported this journey, whether you were in that room on Saturday, sharing our posts online, or simply holding space for the kinds of conversations this work makes possible, you are part of what makes transformation real.

The book is out in the world now, but the inquiry continues.

With deep gratitude and endless questions,

Laura

Imagine—Embracing Chaos and Possibility in a Planetary Emergency is available now online and at select bookstores worldwide.