The Nil Journal

Nil's Musing: That thing called Imagination

Author - Ankita Singh

As human beings, we have compartmentalised our time into calendar years, financial years, quarters and so on. To be fair, these breaks do help us pause and reflect upon our journey while also look forward and wonder where we will be this time next year. Wonder, I say and not plan. Wonder gives you so much scope to imagine what can be! And as Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."

Imagination allows us to let go of those constraints that limit our potential. Imagination allows us to open up to a world where anything and everything is possible. Imagination allows us to experiment, discover, invent and innovate. At Nil, we believe that intuition and imagination are core to the design process. Without it, we are just dry, uninspired individuals finishing our chores, getting things done that were defined by someone else. With imagination, we are dreamers who envision a more beautiful and a better world for now and those to come. With imagination, we discovered gravity, invented a telephone, created an electric bulb, climbed Everest and even landed on the moon!!! Crazy, impossible ideas which happened. Because at some point, somewhere in this world, somebody, imagined it. No doubt that commitment, effort and collaboration led to refining and implementation of these ideas, but it all started with a seed of imagination.

This is our year of imagination. Imagination that allows us to develop our perspectives, look at new ways to process information, create new prototypes, and learn to improvise. Imagination that fuels design for people, making their lives better. We will invest in imagination for every proposal we write, every presentation we make, every tool we design, every meeting we plan and every framework we apply.

Let that imagination go wild!