In society and as individuals we have lost our imaginative skills. We no longer imagine a utopian society, only dystopic social futures. Is there an imagination crisis? If so, why? And how can we overcome it and find new paths to social imagination? How can we quicken social and public imagination in our organisations and in society? And what can we do as individuals and as a collective? Watch Sir Geoff Mulgan, Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London, talk about social imagination.

Time to find a new way to measure happiness. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxObserver, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxObserver event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized. http://www.ted.com/tedx

The floodgates are set to open when it comes to AI and machine thinking tools, but human wisdom will need to channel the flow, says Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive of NESTA. العقل الكبير للذكاء الجماعي: جيف مولغن يتحدّث عن الذكاء الاصطناعي سيكون هناك فيض هائل من الذكاء الاصطناعي ووسائل التفكير الآلي، ولكن على الحكمة الإنسانية "أن تضبط هذا التيار الجارف، بحسب ما أعرب عنه جيث مولغن، الرئيس التنفيذي في "نيستا.

Recorded at the 2016 Annual ESPAS (http://espas.eu) Conference "Global Trends to 2030: Society and Governance" on 16 November 2016 in Brussels. Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive, NESTA

Geoff Mulgan (CEO, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) delivered this keynote lecture on 26 June 2019 at 'Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age' (www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28385). An earlier generation of work on collective intelligence focused primarily on aggregation of individual insights and inputs for citizen science, web projects such as Wikipedia and crowd-sourcing ideas. The key insights of more recent work on CI is that the combination of functional elements of intelligence (models, observation, creativity, memory, judgement etc) increases useful intelligence, especially when these feed into cycles of action and learning. This highlights the need in everyday intelligence for ways of combining formal and informal, codified and tacit, whether in the hospital, classroom or political decision-making. This requires tacit information and knowledge to become less tacit so that they can be shared, interrogated and combined. I will suggest some of the practical and theoretical dimensions of this: - A general thesis about the growth of roles involving mutual supervision of machines and expert humans, formal data and tacit judgement, which will have the effect of making human judgement more formal and self-aware - A thesis about tacit knowledge in innovation, prompted by current work with the UNDP (mapping and supporting positive deviants, grassroots innovations etc) - A thesis about skill and how people can represent experience and competence in ways very different to the formal definitions of CVs and qualifications; or the thin descriptions and feedback of Linkedin; how this may help with the discovery of latent potential (this links to the current Nesta programme of work on Open Jobs) - A thesis about democracy, and how knowledge can be connected to experiences and feelings (with vTaiwan as a live example) There is a long history of tension between standardised metrics and representations on the one hand, and on the other the diversity of lived experience, especially the poor and powerless. Formal knowledge is associated with external power. These examples may suggest new accommodations between formal and tacit, new ways to get below the surface of data, and to reconcile the internal and external.

In the first edition of Nesta Sparks our Chief Executive Geoff Mulgan discusses what the world has learned about innovation over the last couple of hundred years - and why so much of what's said about innovation is wrong. Follow Nesta on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nesta_uk Like Nesta on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nesta.uk Follow Nesta on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nesta_uk

What will the world look like after the Coronavirus pandemic? Matthew Taylor is joined by Geoff Mulgan, Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London. Global crises cause big changes and reveal deep structural weaknesses. As drastic measures are taken across the world to stop the spread of COVID-19,  what are the short, medium and long term implications for our society, our economy, geopolitics - and us as individuals? In this special interview series from the RSA, it’s chief executive, Matthew Taylor, talks to a range of practitioners - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - to assess the scale of the response and consider how we build effective bridges to our new future. Produced by Craig Templeton Smith. We invite you to join our community today to stay connected, inspired and motivated in the months ahead. You can learn more about the Fellowship or start an application by clicking  here: https://bit.ly/2YIQxkt

Geoff Mulgan of Nesta introduces what social innovation is at the SIX Wayfinder Istanbul in 2018.

Geoff Mulgan - CEO of Nesta - was one of four keynote speakers on this year's Social Innovation Summit. He spoke about the past and future decades of social innovation.