Aus den Krisen entsteht das Neue: Flutkatastrophen, Trockenheit, Hitzewellen, Waldbrände und andere Extremereignisse gehen einher mit großer Verunsicherung – der systemische Zusammenhang dieser Krisen und die Konsequenzen für unser künftiges Denken und Handeln sind allzu deutlich. Was wir brauchen sind nachhaltige Veränderungsvorschläge und neue Denk- und Möglichkeitsräume. Was wir brauchen ist eine verstärkte Einbindung der Geisteswissenschaften und ihrer integrativen Kraft.

Ana Prvački on the Lessons of Nature for Societal Change

Carolyn Kirschner on Design for a Planet in Danger

Vanessa Nakate’s speech at the Helmut-Schmidt-Zukunftspreis 2022

THE NEW INSTITUTE beginnt eine Zusammenarbeit mit der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg

Thea Riofrancos on the Global Economic Order

Kinga Kielczynska on Reincarnation and The Limits of Art Production

Emma Enderby on Arts and Speculative Scenarios

Elisabeth Strowick on Stories, Scenarios and Climate Change

Kim Stanley Robinson on Climate Change and Science Fiction

50 Jahre nach dem Report “Limits to Growth”: Wir wissen, dass wir unseren Planeten zerstören – warum ist es so schwer zu handeln? Wir haben Fellows, Aktivist*innen, Künstler*innen gefragt. Begleiten Sie uns auf unserer Suche nach Antworten.

Imagining possible futures – 50 years after “The Limits to Growth”

Dennis Meadows on The Need for a Mature World

Karimah Ashadu Describes the Limbo Within Capitalism

Alevtina Kakhidze on the Art of Surviving

Vanessa Nakate wird mit dem Helmut-Schmidt-Zukunftspreis 2022 ausgezeichnet.

Raj Patel on Food Justice

Our colleague Katharina Lima de Miranda on designing new measures of economic and social wellbeing beyond GDP. A policy brief for the G7.

Our fellows Dennis Snower and Paul Twomey on shifting control of personal data from data aggregators to digital consumers. A policy brief for the G7.

Our fellow Ece Temelkuran asks if she will ever be able to return home to Turkey – or worse, will there be a home to return to?

Sandra Vásquez de la Horra on Healing Rituals and Traumatic Experiences

Our fellow Vladimir Safatle on the revolutionary process of rewriting Chile’s dictatorship-era Constitution – and what it means for the rest of the world.

Tobias Müller on Solidarity as Co-Liberation

Ingo Venzke on the World Order

Raj Patel on Food Rebellions

Adam Harvey on Wartime Tech

Markus Gabriel on Invisible Goods

Am 28. Juni wird der Helmut-Schmidt-Zukunftspreis in Hamburg verliehen – für innovative Leistungen in den Bereichen Demokratie, Gesellschaft und Technologie

Max Krahé on Containment.

Hakan Tanriverdi on Cyber Warfare.

Oxana Timofeeva on Denial.

Jonathan White on the European Project.

Our program director Francesca Bria talks to Evgeny Morozov about how digital technology can be democratized.

Georgiy Kasianov on the Politics of Memory.

Tobias Zielony and Maria on Drones.

Vladimir Safatle on Neutrality.

Jeff Deutch on Forensic Truth.

Tobias Zielony and Vicky on Healing.

Tobias Zielony and Tasia on Partying.

Jan-Werner Müller on “the West” and the War.

Janine von Wolfersdorff on Helping People.

Ingo Venzke on the Crisis of International Law.

Max Krahé on the Financial Origins of the War.

Vienne Chan über sozialen Zusammenhalt.

Dennis Snower über wirklichen Wohlstand.

Ece Temelkuran on Loss and Displacement.

Rüdiger Bachmann on the Case for Harder Sanctions.

Tobias Müller über Extinction Rebellion in Kenia.

Christian Stöcker on Energy Independence.

A message from Alevtina Kakhidze.

Nicole Deitelhoff on the New European Order.

Christoph Möllers on Post-Militarism.

Anna Katsman on Her Family.

Philip Manow on the Geo-Economics of Geo-Politics.

Georg Diez on History and Memory.

Was in der Ukraine geschieht, ist eine Tragödie und ein Verbrechen – wir reflektieren den Krieg dort durch die Perspektive der Kunst und der persönlichen Erzählungen und in einem größeren Kontext durch die Expertise unserer Fellows und anderer relevanter Stimmen.

Our fellow Corine Pelluchon on why we need to rethink the way we produce and consume what we eat. A Policy Brief for the G7.

Our fellow Ingo Venzke on an international alliance for transformative and inclusive climate action. A policy brief for G7.

Die Think7-Auftakt-Konferenz.

Tobias Müller über Forschung und Aktivismus.

Kathrin Böhm über kollaborative Wirtschaftsformen.

Tobias Müller spricht mit Aktivist*innen in Malawi und Kenia.

Our fellow Philip Manow explores the relationship between hyperglobalization and the heterogeneity of global protest movements.

Lin May Saaed über Kunst und Aktivismus.

Hope is a promise, a contradiction, a quiet revolution.

Of all the promises made in the name of Web3, two stand out as particularly radical and democracy-enhancing.

Igor Levit is a pianist who connects his art with the social events happening around him.

Artist and activist Ina-Maria Shikongo talks about the fight for justice and for survival in her native Namibia.

Raisa Galofre’s work challenges Western narratives around gender and identity, offering an alternative perspective...

Akinbode Akinbiyi is a wanderer. On his walks through cities such as Berlin, Lagos and Johannesburg, Akinbiyi closely observes and documents social realities of the streets.

Against the colorful and radiant backdrop of his paintings, Anjel (born Boris Anje) is celebrated for his depictions of contemporary African dandies.

Sim Chi Yin’s photographic work lays bare the monumental challenges our planet faces, and simultaneously provides personal accounts of human existence by uniting intimate storytelling with documentary photography.

As they describe themselves, Jota Mombaça is a “non-binary bicha” (pejorative Brazilian slang used for gay men), and a “mutant” whose personality is in constant flux.

Social injustice and inequality are at the heart of Kiri Dalena’s work as a visual artist, filmmaker and activist.

Corine Pelluchon über die Neue Aufklärung.

Germany has voted. Yet fundamental questions remain open.

Bettina Steinbrügge has a real passion for the arts: “With every project I learn something new and am confronted with questions that I had not thought about before.”

Francesca Bria is the program director of "The New Hanse" and President of the Italian National Innovation Fund. She is one of Europe’s leading digital policy experts and an innovation economist, working at the intersection of technology, geopolitics, economics, and society.

Should the social sciences only analyse the past and present? Or should they also try to help design the future?

María Inés Plaza Lazo knows how to connect individuals and institutions within and beyond the international art world. She is a curator, publisher, journalist and the co-founder of “Arts of the Working Class”.

Which dominant thought patterns deserve an update so that social and ecological goals can move to the center of economic activity?

With a background in arts and philosophy, Chus Martínez has been working both as a curator and author.

In his works, encompassing installations, sculpture, print and video, Simon Denny deals with the social and political implications of the technology industry.

Deliberative democracy is an innovative concept to redefine and reinvigorate the reality of citizenship in the 21st century...

“Peek greed” – this is what Sir Paul Collier calls the present state of mind, both in business and society. But the resistance against the most obvious forms of market excess is growing.

Taryn Simon is a conceptual artist who works at the intersection of memory, identity, representation, history and storytelling, using photography, text, sculpture and performance to create or recreate a reality that all too often eludes us.

The coming years have global threats in stock, each one of which is more lethal than Covid-19, and they are amalgamating fast into a fatal downward spiral.

We are in this together: An attempt to reflect on the unexpected – the year of the pandemic.

I was actually in Wuhan in November of 2019 to visit a collector and came back with pneumonia. And already in December some people were talking to me about a strange virus in Wuhan.

I don't think Covid revealed anything we did not already know about capitalism – a system that makes certain priorities, and those priorities are based mostly on ideals of profitability and cutting costs.

It is a relationship on quite a few different levels. The coronavirus, SARS-Cov-2, is just one of many instances in recent years of emerging infectious diseases that leap over into humanity from the animal kingdoms.

It is important to understand that this is our second confrontation with this kind of virus. The first time was SARS in 2003, and we just panicked. The central government said different things from the municipal governments, locking down an entire hospital unannounced, all in all 73 people died.

It will be a very mixed verdict – but democracy might not be the deciding factor on how to solve the problem of the pandemic. We see democracies performing very differently. So far, we don't really have an explanation for that.

We are all vulnerable and we all have a common destiny. A lot of people have come to realize that they cannot master everything and that the connection with humans is the most important thing.

It turned out to be one of the most memorable summer vacations in my lifetime — I found myself lying on a sunny, picturesque beach in the South of France; being swept away, much like with waves, by the wafting scents of Provençal seaside cuisine; and surrounding myself with three happy children building sea castles in the warm sand.

This crisis has been the biggest real time simultaneous challenge to governance and policy that anyone can remember. It has had extremely uneven responses all over the world, the successes and the failures of which are complicated.

I came to Hong Kong early this year when there was suddenly this outbreak. I have been stuck here since then.

I think the pandemic will be seen as having accelerated a process that was already deeply advanced – the decline of Western ideological and intellectual hegemony. The material decline started a long time ago, but the hegemony was still intact through the years of decline.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on the vulnerability of our very existence, and heavily disturbs daily routines that hitherto have been taken for granted. Unpreparedness and uncertainty prevail among experts as well as political leaders.

It is hard to think of a period when every single person on the planet was facing the same threat, forming a collective of vulnerables...

Homi Bhabha was the perfect person to talk to about the outcome of the U.S. election – a scholar of multiculturalism with a keen eye for...

Daniel Ziblatt is sitting in his study in Newton, not far from the Harvard campus where he normally teaches as the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government. Now everything is done via Zoom.

THE NEW INSTITUTE is opening its second call for fellowships for the program “The Future of Democracy”, bringing together academics, artists, journalists from fall 2021 on to addresses the current challenges and failures of the democratic system and aiming to find ways to strengthen participation.

"Well, here we are." This is the first sentence in Jean-Paul Sartre's play "No Exit", in which the four protagonists Garcin, Inès, Estelle and an enigmatic figure, the valet, find themselves in the underworld. They do not know how they ended up there.

How would our perception of ethics and politics change if we were to understand the body as the starting point of our experience? If we would put the materiality of our senses first, beating back the pretension that consciousness is at the origin of all sense?

What is the meaning of death? Or, as the philosopher would say: finitude? In other words, if live must end - isn’t that the ultimate limit to our existence, the very opposite of freedom?

What will this coming decade be – the ten years, some say, that are essential if we want to change the course of things, tackle climate change before more tipping points are reached.

THE NEW INSTITUTE is expanding: Francesca Bria, President of the Italian Innovation Fund, Geoff Mulgan, the former head of the UK innovation agency Nesta, and Christoph Möllers, law professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, support THE NEW INSTITUTE.

THE NEW INSTITUTE issues its first fellowship call – focusing on “The Foundations of Value and Values”. The program will be a central element of the fundamental research activities of the new Hamburg-based institute.

Markus Gabriel, Germany’s most innovative contemporary philosopher, will become a fellow at THE NEW INSTITUTE. Beginning in the fall of 2021, Gabriel will help to shape the program “The Foundations of Value and Values”.

Lea Ypi has an academic mind and an activist heart. She aims for an “activist political theory”, as she states in her book on global justice.

Geoff Mulgan is one of the most curious and constructive thinkers and practitioners around. He used to work in politics, he founded and ran big think tanks, he is an academic with a strong leaning towards action and change.

Care, verstanden als die Sorge füreinander, ist für menschliche Gefühle und das menschliche Denken von zentraler Bedeutung.

Während wir mit den Sorgen unseres geschäftigen Alltags beschäftigt sind, einem trüben Gemisch aus wirklich Dringlichem und zutiefst Trivialem...

Warum ist Mut eine zentrale Tugend, insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit den ökologischen, wirtschaftlichen, sozialen und politischen Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts?

Mut ist eine der klassischen Tugenden. Mut ist aber auch eine heikle Tugend: Mut kann leicht in Torheit oder Hybris umschlagen.

Kreativität ist eines der wertvollsten Werkzeuge, die uns als Menschen zur Verfügung stehen.

Der Begriff „commitment“ hat im Deutschen keine direkte Entsprechung: Engagement, Verbundenheit, Solidarität, so könnte man es übersetzen.