This month’s Living Library revisits a flashback episode from the first season of Imagine Action: Social Arts Across Borders, returning to a conversation recorded over five years ago with Ravi Resck, presented as a time-travel capsule whose insights remain strikingly relevant today. Ravi reflects on how growing up within a family engaged in social-environmental theatre and grassroots social entrepreneurship in Brazil shaped his commitment to curiosity, social justice, and independent thinking. Looking ahead, Ravi shares a vision of an ecocentric society grounded in “mollification,” shifting from large centralized systems toward localized cycles of production and care, and concludes by reflecting on the ImaginAction network as a living organism sustained through shared rituals, transparent onboarding, and light, adaptable agreements rather than rigid institutional structures.

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