Eco-imagination as a Topological Force for Eco-systemic Thinking

This contribution addresses contemporary sustainability challenges by proposing eco-imagination as a key epistemological and ethical paradigm. Drawing on Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s phenomenological cosmology, imagination is rethought not as a subjective faculty but as a formative, ontopoietic force through which humans co-participate in the unfolding of life. Eco-imagination is grounded in the interconnectedness of biotic systems within the ecosphere and articulates a mode of responsibility, care, and co-creation. The volume develops this concept along two trajectories: its relation to digital, virtual, and artificial domains, and its expression in literature, architecture, and the arts. Engaging Husserlian genetic phenomenology and theories of presentification, the book challenges the primacy of perception and emphasizes imagining as a process of spacing and quasi-presence. Eco-imagination thus emerges as a transformative eco-phenomenological tool for reconfiguring human–world relations toward environmental justice and sustainability.