part-1 imagination this is the island of
ghoulia to the right is Dragon Island
where only women live who are able to
tame their dragons to the left is a big
whirlwind called it bozo where everybody
who tells a lie is drawn into over the
last couple of years my now 12-year old
neighbor and I got very good at telling
stories about imaginary places we were
the builders of new countries new cities
new places we embedded everything until
one day he hesitated he said I can’t
write the spelling because he had to
jilt it down word down next to a new
drone castle and he said I can do this
I’m not good at spelling and I said what
do you mean I didn’t see this coming I
said to him never ever let your
imagination be overruled by how it
should be but something has changed his
free thinking disappeared and in the
back of his hand head was suddenly
occupied by the rules of reality I felt
sad and powerless I wanted to give him
back the power of his imagination but
something had changed from that moment
on I decided that imagination language
our day development we’re going to be my
field that’s what I’m passionate about
that’s what I that’s what I like to give
to people so I’m an idea developer and
writer and I make my living imagining
with all kinds of people and industries
and artists large corporations
I’m called in when there’s a need for
some kind of change a library that was
just a library that needs to evolve into
a meeting place for the community
business district with a lot of vacant
buildings that needs to be revived I
create conversation starters meetups and
interventions and cities to talk about
why the current situation simply doesn’t
work anymore and how we can improve it
for the future and what I’ve learned
from all these meetings and interactions
with people is that speculative thinking
is a great way to start which means that
you create stories imaginary stories and
new stories about possible futures to
explore what could happen in the future
you describe the implications of a
certain idea for instance what happens
if Caruso would have 30 libraries all
over the island what would happen and
what you know what would happen for the
children or the elderly or yeah 30
libraries instead of one that’s a change
but our imagination and the ability to
share our ideas and spread them like
stories is what opens up new
possibilities and we normally would not
come up with now Punda the oldest part
of the limb stopped it was my first
there my first time here take a look at
this picture what do you see what what
do you hear what kind of stories are
there what kind of sounds are connected
to this place
what does poonam mean to you do you feel
engaged to it and is it Pune part of
your culture last Wednesday I hosted and
meet up with eight participants to talk
about the future of Pune
because I’ve come to understand from
them that Buddha used to be a very
lively place where young people met and
interacted where people went out eating
and drinking and you know enjoying
having a good time but now I hear words
like boring or lack of diversity or dead
space and I was very curious to hear
what that was all about so yeah during
the meeting I heard all kinds of stories
about Buddha but how can we change the
current situation we speculated about
all kinds of ideas a swinging high
energy one long street of a lot of
restaurants next to each other so one
long street imagine the smells it really
reflects the cultural diversity of
curacao it could be an icon in Pune
we also spoke about bike lanes that
connect the whole area that will be
great then somebody mentioned that
actually nobody lives in Pune apparently
30,000 people used to live in Pune how
many people do you think in Pune live
right now only 50 50 people are living
in funda right now it’s amazing I think
and this by the way is one of them Sam
at 11 o’clock in the evening he was the
last man standing it was raining all the
streets were empty and he passed by so
Sam this is great this is one of the
fifty actually we live in Buda and what
about all the vacant buildings right now
the larger area of Pune has at least
fifty eight thousand square meters of
empty space which means that 27%
most one-third of all the buildings in
Pune is currently unused so let’s
elaborate on that and unleash your
imagination but would you like to see in
Pune probably women mothers with the
children eating out young professionals
opening up their laptops and retired
people first they get sick they take the
first sip of their beer at the end of
the day you know socializing the buzz of
socializing in short yeah
in short living is the catalyst that
could change
buna because now nobody lives there so
after 8 o’clock or even 7 o’clock it’s
as somebody mentioned in the workshop
and what I heard also it’s dead space
which is not a break from work to make
of a beautiful time like this so living
is the catalyst that could change Pune
and it should be a mixture of families
business owners and you know children
who live there and while brainstorming
we concluded that there are two
scenarios one scenario is that that the
sorry yeah one scenario is that within
20 years time the buildings will
devaluate and you know a landlord from
abroad a project developer is going to
redevelop the place and then it’s not in
the hands of course oh maybe and another
scenario is that the landlords who owned
the spaces can really Vella Pune and
make it a really lively place but the
good news is you can do something about
this on behalf of our
boom the brainstorming team represents
you a new project life in Pune or you
can apply for space and yeah you can
look it up on social media you can you
can apply for space life in Pune we’ll
collect all your ideas if you need a
space in Pune so why is this made
possible because one of the landlords is
on board and he offers some space and
there’s space available and hopefully
the other landlords will follow so
please submit your ideas to life in Pune
on social media it’s on Facebook so I
want to leave you with this I see a lot
of knowledge here connect all the dots
connect all the knowledge I’ve learned
from all the experiences I have that
while speaking about the ideas that is
already starting so after tonight invite
friends to come over and speak about the
ideas you all have because it always will lead to something thank you