This chapter investigates the connection between democracy and creativity and social change. The Swedish author of children’s books, Astrid Lindgren, underpins the importance of imagination as part of social change: ‘Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination’ (Lindgren, 1987). Here she was echoing John Dewey, who portrays ideas as ‘images-of-things-that-might-be’ (Dewey, 1938/1976). But in order to transform and materialise an idea, human action is needed. It calls for reflection that draws on knowledge and experience in order to determine whether the ‘might be’ can be transformed into ‘are’. This means that transformation processes include dialogue processes, interaction, and negotiation. To me, the essence of innovation is that, in contrast to creativity, the latter may appear through the idea or the vision itself.