How do our temporal frames and orientations to rhythm shape our perception of possibility in the present? How can we build dialogue across temporal difference? In this talk, Keri will discuss how time, timing, rhythm and temporal framing play critical roles defining social problems, structuring solutions, producing injustice and intensifying conflict. Drawing on a series of examples related to climate change and ecological transitions, she will make the case that a ‘temporal imagination’ can offer new routes to understanding and framing complex situations and opening up pathways to mutual engagement and dialogue. She will also explore this issue from a pedagogical perspective - what might it take to foster a temporal imagination both in our research and in our communities.