However, it is going to take a different kind of approach, involving business, government, community organizations and the people to produce the as yet unseen levels of engagement, imagination, possibilities, partnership and progressive pragmatism that will define the 21st Century communities we want to live in and have thrive.
An NEH-funded research leave (1989) led to papers on imagination, possibility, color, and causal relations.
In order to raise oneself beyond the merely aesthetic life, which is a life of drifting in imagination, possibility and sensation, one needs to make a commitment.
"Gardens and art give us hope: hope for growth, imagination, possibility, joy, fellowship," she told me one day (after she told me to be patient with the painting).
In political terms it engages the imagination, the possibilities of shared responsibility.
For Van der Kleij, mobile banking in Africa has been a lesson in imagination and possibilities.
The most compelling aspects of Schartmann's book involve the widening circumference of Kondo's imagination, the possibilities he saw in this new world of electronic composition.
"Where the trail of evidence disappears, where intellect fails," Hayden says, "one must rely on imagination, on possibilities that are technically unprovable".
But what magic he pours into the delicate wire creations he sends whirling through the air in these minimalist circus acts: his hands, our imagination, endless possibilities.
One of my greatest mentors was the late Jay Chiat of TBWA Chiat Day, an iconoclast in the field of advertising with a constant imagination for possibilities in business and life.
With just a little imagination, the possibilities are endless.
