Srećko Horvat and Georg Diez in conversation.
What does learning mean in our societies? Philosopher Srećko Horvat talks to Georg Diez about his experiences in founding an experimental school on the Croatian island of Vis, the School of Social Autonomy. The conversation serves as an introduction to the concept and idea of the SCHOOL OF SURVIVAL.

Ece Temelkuran and Georg Diez in conversation.
We need new words for a new world. Democracy consists of rules and abstraction: freedom, equality, fraternity - but how do these concepts relate to love, beauty, grief, anger? The writer Ece Temelkuran and the curator Georg Diez present their project of a vocabulary for the 21st century - and invite participants to expand this vocabulary and find new words for a new reality.

Jackie Grassmann and Georg Diez in conversation.
The SCHOOL OF SURVIVAL is a place where craftsmanship is learned, where the tools for our collective survival are taught - and writing is one of these tools. Artist and author Jackie Grassmann talks to curator Georg Diez about writing as a way of understanding one's own life and creating new paths.

A report from our discussion evening at the Hamburger Landesvertretung and our Data Commons Working Group Meeting in Berlin

How does data sharing for the public good really work?

How The New Hanse tries to tackle the question of private-public-people partnership in the digital age. What is the role of data in the digital age? What are prominent ways of governing data? How can we best use data for our common good?

THE NEW INSTITUTE starts a collaboration with the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg

Elisabeth Strowick on Stories, Scenarios and Climate Change

Kim Stanley Robinson on Climate Change and Science Fiction

Georg Diez on History and Memory.

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

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.

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...

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?

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...