Nested crises demand new ways of thinking and acting. We need to recouple human and non-human nature, economic and moral value, democracy as a form of governance and as a way of life, technology and ethics, social complexity and realistic utopias, and finally, the theory and the practice of social change.
OUR MISSION
THE NEW INSTITUTE is an experimental initiative aimed at developing social imaginaries for future societies. We combine academic rigor with innovative practice to inspire, promote and implement societal change. We try to close the gap between insight and action by bringing together academics from different disciplines with politicians, entrepreneurs, journalists, and artists.
We live and collaboratively work together in the Warburg Ensemble, which provides the conditions for rethinking conventional approaches to work. We 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.
