At a time when technological acceleration increasingly shapes our lives, we need educational and cultural spaces capable not only of producing innovation, but also of cultivating critical reflection, ethical responsibility, democratic imagination, ecological sensitivity, and collective care -and the capacity to imagine futures beyond inevitability. This would meaningfully connect innovation and the ethics of social imagination.

We are living through a time of profound change. Ecological breakdown, political polarization, social fragmentation, economic precarity, and rapidly accelerating technologies are reshaping everyday life across the world. Artificial intelligence, in particular, is beginning to transform not only labor and education, but also communication, social relations, and the ways knowledge itself is produced and circulated. Yet beneath these visible crises lies another challenge: a cris