Culture is worth investing in.

Before people build a different future, they need ways to picture it. Stories supply the first drawings. Memes carry them through the culture. A possibility becomes shareable before it becomes ordinary.

International Meme Fund is a cultural publishing concept about that circulation of imagination. We want to make the stories, images, and practices of a more generous world easier to encounter, understand, and adapt.

This founding prospectus asks what deserves more attention: public knowledge, human agency, collective competence, and a future with room for joy. Consider it a reading room for the imagination economy.

This is the founding charter: an invitation to develop the ideas below.