Seeing Invisible Things

Isabel Minhós Martins & Madalena Matoso

The world needs us to sit and talk about many subjects: climate change, wealth distribution, disinformation, teaching methods used in schools, how we manage our time.

How can we find solutions to so many problems? What can we do to improve everyone’s lives? As we’ll see in this book, imagination and creativity can be part of the solution.

But what is imagination and what is it for, after all? Is it related to creativity? Where can each of them lead us? On the other hand, can creativity be learnt? Is it inherited? How can you tell a good idea from a weaker idea? And what can you do when you don’t have ideas?

In this book, we behold the many stages of the creative process: we go out into the world, searching for aspects that can infl uence creativity; we put the spotlight on science, art and school; and we challenge readers with stories and experiments inspired by scientists, artists and other people with a lot of imagination. Get on board!

Press voices

“A book which is as courageous as those who dare to imagine, and pertinent in a world which is increasingly uniform and automated.” Ana Dias Ferreira, Observador

“How to See Invisible Things appears in Planeta Tangerina’s catalogue as part of an educational series (…). It’s quite possible that it won’t be the last book in this editorial line. But if it were, it would beautifully conclude an exploration of participative knowledge in relation to space, self-knowledge and behaviour.” Andreia Brites, Blimunda magazine

“This is a book that was designed for children but in which all readers, whatever their age, might experience that thirst for knowledge and for a discovery of new connections between things which they perhaps already know about.. (…) “How to See Invisible Things” explores lines of thinking that can’t be limited to a few lessons of the school curriculum, because they really need to be returned to every day – even when one’s school days are long since passed – with one’s heart, mind and body, ready to be amazed at every turn”.” Sara Figueiredo Costa