'imaginative component' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it in any context where you are referring to something that requires creativity or imagination. For example, "This assignment requires a thorough and imaginative component."
"It has no imaginative component that I can see and apparently appeals to dull corporate minds like his own -- the sort of people who run American motels and malls".
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With regard to teaching art to produce the right kind of sensitivity, Nussbaum seems to realize that one will have to censor the content of the art that the students encounter: "The imaginative component of democratic education requires careful selectivity".
Gabriel's work also has been marked by an imaginative visual component.
One of the issues in applying evolutionary techniques to conceptual design is how to represent designs in a way in which genetic algorithms can be used to support the process of generating and optimising innovative and imaginative geometric components and parts.
In Synecdoche, New York, Kaufman creates the imaginative equivalent of a basic component of human life, fragile, ever changing in shape, elusive and contradictory in its instinct both for creation and extinction.
The use of death across a range of imaginative and heartfelt storylines is a key component of this darker, growing genre of fiction.
Being imaginative means using your imagination more.
In this research, the home is usually understood in spatial and political terms with three overlapping components: home as material and imaginative; the nexus between home, power, and identity; and the multiscalarity of home.
The exhibition looks at the artist's research methods; how he uses perspective to explain and dramatize architecture; how the illustrations peel back the skin of structures to reveal their components; and Mr. Macaulay's playful, imaginative style.
We apply models with a semantic component: Rayson's models of informative language and imaginative language [3], Suedfeld's model of integrative complexity [4], Pennebaker's model of deception [5], Koppel's model of jihadist language [6], and a model for gamification developed by the authors.
