Advanced Imagination Workshop by Jack Manning Bancroft & Professor Hope (Post Solarpunkification 2026, Ticketed)
Advanced Imagination Workshop by Jack Manning Bancroft & Professor Hope (Post Solarpunkification 2026)
Advanced Imagination Workshop with Jack Manning Bancroft
What if we could unearth for humanity the most enduring source of human knowledge on the planet – Indigenous systems thinking — and fuse it with the best of modern knowledge and technology? What if we could bake in more relational, expansive, nature-based design into how we approach our lives and work, and solve our biggest challenges?
Jack Manning Bancroft
Jack Manning Bancroft is the founder & CEO of AIME. He is a graduate of The University of Sydney and Stanford University, a former NSW Young Australian of the Year, and an author of books for children and adults. Jack has received a Human Rights Medal, an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Western Sydney and is the youngest person in Australian history to be awarded an Honorary Doctorate, which he received from the University of South Australia. He is currently an Honorary Fellow at Deakin University with the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab.
Jack Manning Bancroft is the CEO and Founder of AIME, an award-winning social movement that uses mentoring and imagination to unlock the potential of marginalised youth to create a fairer world. AIME is an imaginative educational program and a volunteer mentoring movement – a social network for good. Jack, a proud Indigenous Australian from the Bundjalung nation, founded AIME in 2005 at the age of 19 to find a solution to Indigenous inequality in Australia. Driven by imagination and audacious kindness, he re-engineered the concept of mentoring. He developed a cost-effective and scalable model that brings university students together as volunteers to mentor marginalised and minority high school kids so that they complete high school successfully, go on to university and ultimately, into fulfilling careers. Jack has received a string of awards and recognition for his work, his philosophy and his vision for a fairer world. He was MJ Bale’s Man of Character in 2014 and won Australia’s Happy Harold Education Award in 2013. In 2010, five years after founding AIME, he received the Australian Human Rights Medal, GQ Man of Inspiration, New South Wales Young Australian of the Year and the University of Sydney Young Alumni of the Year awards. Jack holds a BA in Media and Communications from the University of Sydney. He was awarded the Stanford Australia Foundation Dyson Bequest Scholarship in 2013 to attend Stanford University’s flagship Executive Program. In 2016 he received an Honorary Fellowship from Western Sydney University, and in the same year, he became the youngest person in Australian history to receive an Honorary Doctorate from the University of South Australia. Jack is also a published children’s author with The Eagle Inside and has written The Mentor and Mentoring – The Key to a Fairer World
Professor Hope
HOPE is the Professor of Imagination at IMAGI-NATION {University}, working tirelessly to unlock the imagination of the world to summon new intelligence.
HOPE knows that hope doesn’t come easy: it’s a struggle. Always. He is the epitome of hard work – you don’t get to opt out of the work if you want to change the world. He’s trying as hard as possible to build a bridge between reality and unreality.
As the leader of the University, HOPE feels the heaviness of hope, and at times that burden is too big to shoulder alone – the responsibility of helping the world heal. HOPE is an exhausted optimist. He’s steadfast, tired, yet refuses to give up his belief that humanity can find a better way forward.
This workshop will take place after Solarpunkification 2026- https://luma.com/8u07vkhv