An overview of Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Imagination Infrastructuring event, from one of its curators. An article that goes deep and wide, raising the (“daunting, delicious”) challenge of weaving a system of systems – “more like a mycelium and less like a graph” – through the times ahead. “Perhaps this time between worlds, with all its unknowns, with all its grief-making and intense necessities, its joys and its terrors, will at least end up being ‘the axe for the frozen sea inside us,’ as Franz Kafka once wrote.”