Tania Zittoun

Professor of Sociocultural Psychology , University of Neuchâtel

Tania Zittoun is professor of sociocultural psychology at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. She studies human development in the lifecourse, and the role of imagination within. Her current projects explore the lives of older persons, and mobility in small localities. She is the author, with Alex Gillespie, of Imagination in Human and Cultural Development (Routledge, 2016), among others.

Written by Tania Zittoun

Photo of an elderly person in a wheelchair on a beach facing a large picture of a forest and shrine.

Nourish your imagination and you will be forever free

The imagination is fundamental to the human experience, freeing us from physical confines and anchoring us during unrest

by Tania Zittoun