OUR MISSION
We are a mission driven Institute of Advance Study and a platform for change. Our mission is to develop visions for fundamentally reconfigured societies. We combine academic rigor and innovative practice to inspire, promote and implement societal change. We will close the gap between insight and action, by bringing together academics from different disciplines and practitioners like activists, politicians, journalists, artists, and entrepreneurs.
Our home is the Warburg Ensemble, which provides the conditions for the rethinking of conventional approaches and commonly held beliefs. We will host up to 35 fellows and build unlikely alliances.
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Tom Carlson – Love as CareCaught up in the rushed busyness of our countless everyday concerns — a cloudy stir of the truly pressing and deeply trivial — we often tend to forget and thus to neglect what we most care about.
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Colin Mayer – Care as PracticeCare is central to human emotions, feeling and thinking. It is the essence of what it is to be human – to care for the well-being of others; to provide care for them; and to act with care in regard to them.
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Geoff Mulgan – Our TaskCourage is one of the classical virtues. But it is a subtle virtue. Courage can easily spill over into folly or hubris. Yet all communities need at least some people to be courageous, and not just in a martial sense.
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Corine Pelluchon – The Capacity to Feel FearWhy is courage a key virtue, especially in the context of the ecological, economic, social and political challenges of the 21st century?
Corine Pelluchon | The Human Condition in the 21st Century |
PROGRAMS
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The Human Condition in the 21st Century
How can we create a sustainable value-system for the 21st century?
Read MoreThe foundational program tackles the problem of how to think of the human condition in the 21st century.
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The Future of Democracy
How can we transition to an ecologically responsible and democratically resilient future?
Read MoreThe program “The Future of Democracy” places its main focus on the prospects for comprehensive ecological democratization. The guiding rationale is that social transformations require a collective imaginary of a future worth striving for.
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Socio-Economic Transformation
How can the economy serve social well-being within planetary boundaries?
Read MoreOur economy must serve our social needs and respect planetary boundaries. But this is currently not the case: we are on an unsustainable path. Our economic activities have contributed to societies growing more unequal across various dimensions, depriving some of meeting their basic human needs and putting political systems under stress.