ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces a working development of the accepted practice of the social dreaming method, involving the use of art-making to complement and amplify the task of the social dreaming matrix. Congruous with social dreaming ethos, this is a work-in-progress hypothesis, whose outcomes, or even principles, are under scrutiny; any further development of the model will need systematic research. The hunch that art making can concretely add something of value to a social dreaming programme may find agreement as well as objections. The social dreaming programme in Rome’s botanical gardens explicitly set out to explore the question of what conditions are conducive to a creative mind-set. The dream synthesised the idea of the matrix, organising the shared ownership of the oneiric material wherein and the possibility that art could be a conduit for that material’s further amplification, illumination and understanding.
