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What if healthcare prescribed living, not just medicine?

What if education taught us
 how to think, not what to know?

What if philanthropy invested in civic futures, not repair?

Imagination is the capacity for experiencing, exploring, and inventing new possibilities.

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Who We Are

Curiosity Society is an imagination community galvanizing a cooperative inquiry into the century ahead. We identify, develop, and celebrate the questions shaping the human experience and invent labs that design + build future models.

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What We Do

We curate + convene Imagination Salons. Fourth Places that host extraordinary leaders in 3-day immersive celebrations + accelerations. We combine inquiry + action. Salons introduce fundamental new thinking and cultivate conditions for collaboration to realize better futures. 

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50 for 2050 Imagination Salon

The Shed, Hudson Yards, New York City

October 7–9, 2025

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The Shed, a contemporary cultural center in New York City’s Hudson Yards, featuring its distinctive quilted, movable facade illuminated by the golden light of sunset, surrounded by modern glass skyscrapers.
Denise Young speaks on stage during a civic imagination salon, seated in front of deep red curtains. She gestures thoughtfully while holding a microphone, wearing a black blazer and pearl necklace. A small table with a vase of flowers and glasses of water is visible in the foreground, adding to the intimate, conversational atmosphere.
Salons enable us to take time, be more rigorous, and expansive. In doing so, bring in much more richness and robustness and quality of thought. I think that's what we're all after.
Denise Young speaks on stage during a civic imagination salon, seated in front of deep red curtains. She gestures thoughtfully while holding a microphone, wearing a black blazer and pearl necklace. A small table with a vase of flowers and glasses of water is visible in the foreground, adding to the intimate, conversational atmosphere.

Denise Young Smith

previously Worldwide Chief of Human Resources at Apple

Previous salon attendees

Trusted by

  • Disney
  • Apple
  • Airbnb
  • General Electric
  • MIT
  • American Express
  • ABInBev
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