Critical imagination is an active and creative capacity that can discover, construct, and explore connections and interrelations across multiple dimensions. Critical imagination can mediate between diverse perspectives, temporalities, scales, disciplines, as well as processes of domination, integration, and change. For this reason, it is a capacity that presupposes a critical distance from reality, enabling the distinction and perception of bridges between the existing and the non-existent, and between what is real and what is possible. With this in mind, the research line on critical imagination will conduct two pilot studies on the production and circulation of contemporary critical repertoires. The first study is based on an exploratory mapping of critical imagination in Brazilian society through recent editorial production in the country, focusing especially on constructive contributions around themes such as labor/production, gender/sexuality, race/ethnicity, and the environment. The second study is an ethnography of collective actions and social movements aimed at mapping alternative critical repertoires.