The polymathic Leonarda da Vinci kept idea notebooks throughout his life, during the course of which he covered over 5000 pages with drawings, questions and ideas. The words he wrote most frequently in those pages were “I question…”. He questioned just about everything, and delighted in what he called pre-imagining – imagining things that were yet to be. In addition to his still staggering art output, he designed many things long before the technology existed to make them possible.

There’s a link between incessant questioning (what we like to call exploring at The Table) and imagining a future that can’t yet exist. But (why is there always a but?!), staying in that exploratory space doesn’t come easy. It may require “staying liquid”, an idea that we’ll explore in the Talky Bit this coming Sunday.