I'm currently reading Emergent Strategy, by Adrienne Maree Brown, and she said something that stuck with me. We're all living in someone, or some group's, imagined future. Everything around us exists as it does today, because someone or some group of people in the past, imagined a future where these things could come to be. So it's important that we actively imagine the futures we want to see. And to imagine better futures, we need to actively engage in the process of imagining a better future.

The Open Space's main goal is to serve as a place that will help people come together and imagine those better futures