What we're tending

Studio Imaginal is a living field of inquiry rather than a fixed offer. We host small, emergent inquiries that begin with a question - not a problem to solve. Current fields include:​​

• How might we support bodies living with chronic illness through relational healing -centred on consent, pacing, and what the body can metabolise now?

• How might we design forms of care that reduce sensory and cognitive load, so the body can soften out of defence and into repair?

• How might we create conditions for long-term healing that honour fluctuation, uncertainty, and non-linear progress, without turning the person into a project?

• How might we practice systemic design as a relational act; working with interdependence, power, and context rather than isolated “solutions”?

• How might we do relational futuring that strengthens present-day capacity to respond - without bypassing grief, conflict, or complexity?

• How might we cultivate immunity, personal and cultural, without purity, exile, or extractive narratives of “resilience”?

• How might we prototype sustainable products not as solutions but as companions – things that hold story, tension, or tenderness without demanding resolution?

• How might the act of making become a site of cultural fermentation – composting extractive logics into relational offerings?

• How might fashion become a practice of slow myth-making rather than fast identity – honouring seasonal rhythms, ancestral materials, and the wisdom of decay?

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