Sacred Creation: Just Imagine... We Are Not Designing Alone

Abstract

If we realized that we are not alone when we design, would it help us to approach the possibility of a wider Sacred Pedagogy? The contemporary world poses some significant challenges to the realization of a sacred pedagogy. Some of them have been theorized as The Secular Age, The Disenchanted World and the Technologic Time. “To throw the baby out with the bathwater” is an idiomatic expression that adequately represents the state of the art on this subject: something valuable – the sacred – has almost been eliminated while trying to get rid of something deemed to be worthless. But if the sacred is – broadly speaking – about transcendence, then sacred pedagogy should be less about easiness and more about resilience. Through this paper, we will try to work through a small exercise together: we will provide a picture as an inspiration to cross the levels of Creation step by step, from the most evident for an architect to the most subtle. With this goal in mind, we hope to take a small step towards a fraternal pedagogy of sacred imagination. And finally, to try and question the unrecognizable role of the pedagogue within this context.

Keywords

• sacred
• imagination
• pedagogy
• creation
• inspiration