Wednesday, June 17, 2026 at 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
ICA LA, Los Angeles
Inspired by the dreamscapes of artist **iris yirei hu** on view in the Speaking in Tongues exhibition, this program focuses on the dreamworld as a space of transformative thinking and psychosocial creativity. Led by **Dr. George Bermúdez**, the workshop will provide an experience of a “**Social Dreaming Matrix**”, an emancipatory practice accessing the “social unconscious” to facilitate the transformation of problematic, unresolved experience in our social systems (organizational, community, society, our global community). Moving beyond Freud’s individualistic and narrow wish fulfillment theory, social dreaming proposes that dreaming is an essential human ability for generating knowledge derived from experience. Social Dreaming engenders “transformative thinking”, a type of experience that moves us beyond binaries, holding multiple existential truths, bearing in creative tension the infinite unconscious and our focal awareness. The multiplicity of the dreaming mind challenges us to hold complexity and bear uncertainty, making room for multiple truths that facilitate new ways of being in relation, in citizenship, and in human existence.