A modest attempt to democratize law and legal education for social-ecological change by Isabel Feichtner.

From 26-30 August, an international group of distinguished lawyers and jurists are meeting at THE NEW INSTITUTE to draft a treaty for the creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court.

Discursive polarization as a multi-dimensional divergence emerging in and through communication

How can we gain insights into cycling and micromobility flows and the ecosystem in Hamburg to make the city more liveable and sustainable?

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

THE NEW INSTITUTE Program Chair Minna Salami contributes to the Club of Rome with a distinctive lens from Black feminism and African identity, empowering their battle against global crises.

The University of Bremen convinced the jury with its innovative approach of developing an AI-powered analytics dashboard to improve cycling and micromobility in Hamburg.

Lee Tzu-Tung’s “prolonged undercover performance art” and “bionic cryptocurrency” strive towards open-source futures on the blockchain and beyond.

In a fluctuating market, what has staying power? Mitchell F. Chan reflects on the construction of value and art and crypto’s shared status as “receptacles of faith.”

Penny Rafferty is LARPing new forms of organizing into existence. Taking up tools and processes used in the blockchain world, she aims to open wider portals of possibility.

Terra0 uses artistic narratives to propose post-human economies. As they put it: "On the blockchain, no one knows you’re a tree."

How does data sharing for the public good really work?

Our fellow Avram Alpert on his latest book about accepting our limitations and leading more fulfilling lives.

Five wellbeing economy principles for the world

Ideas and solution proposals for data-based improvement of cycling and micromobility wanted.
The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and THE NEW INSTITUTE are jointly launching the Urban Data Challenge Hamburg. The goal is to gain new insights into cycling and micromobility flows in Hamburg in order to make the city more livable and sustainable. The best proposed solution will be awarded €40,000.

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?

Out of crises comes the new: flood disasters, drought, heat waves, and forest fires, although accompanied by uncertainty, present an opportunity for sustainable change and necessitate the integration of the humanities to create new spaces for thought and action towards a more secure future.

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 starts a collaboration with the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg

Thea Riofrancos on the Global Economic Order

Kinga Kiełczyńska 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 years after the report “Limits to Growth”: We know we are destroying our planet – why is it so difficult to act? Fellows, practitioners, artists try to find answers. Join us on our quest.

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 receives the Helmut-Schmidt-Zukunftspreis 2022.

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 traumatic experiences and healing rituals.

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

On 28 June, the Helmut Schmidt Future Prize will be awarded in Hamburg - for innovative achievements in the fields of democracy, society and technology.

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 on Social Cohesion.

Dennis Snower on True Prosperity

Ece Temelkuran on Loss and Displacement.

Rüdiger Bachmann on the Case for Harder Sanctions.

Tobias Müller on Extinction Rebellion in Kenya.

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.

In this series, we look at the tragedy in Ukraine – intimately through art and testimonies, and in a wider context through the expertise of our fellows, and joined by other voices we find valuable.

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.

The Think7 Inception Conference.

Tobias Müller on Research and Activism.

Kathrin Böhm on Collaborative Economies.

Tobias Müller talks to activists in Malawi and Kenya.

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

Lin May Saeed on Art and Activism.

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

Markus Gabriel is an internationally acclaimed philosopher of the New Realism school of thought.

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

Ece Temelkuran is a novelist and political commentator whose work explores issues that are controversial in Turkey, such as the Kurdish and Armenian struggles and freedom of expression.

Christof Mauch is a historian with a strong focus on nature and the environment.

Catriona McKinnon is a political theorist who studies climate justice and climate ethics.

Cassie Thornton is an artist and activist who refers to herself as a feminist economist.

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is an independent curator, author and biotechnologist.

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

Jonathan White is a political scientist whose interests lie in political sociology and political theory.

Juliet Jacques is a writer, filmmaker and journalist whose practice explores the themes of literature, film, art...

Lea Ypi is a political philosopher whose research centres on issues of global justice, normative political theory...

Hope is promise and practice. Hope is about agency and community, it is both private and political and has the potential to transform us and, in the process, the world.

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 on the New Enlightenment.

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.

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.

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.

Taryn Simon is a conceptual artist who works at the intersection of memory, identity, representation, history and storytelling...

Ole von Uexkull on the Work and Ambition of the Right Livelihood Foundation

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

Esther Schipper is a gallerist in Berlin.

Evgeny Morozov is a tech writer and publisher of “The Syllabus”.

Andreas Malm is a climate historian at the University of Lund.

Audrey Tang is the Digital Minister of Taiwan.

Christoph Möllers is Professor for Constitutional Law, Humboldt University Berlin, and Senior Advisor THE NEW INSTITUTE

Corine Pelluchon is Professor for Philosophy, Paris, and incoming fellow THE NEW INSTITUTE

Eugen Baer is Senior Fellow at THE NEW INSTITUTE.

Geoff Mulgan is Professor at UCL and Senior Advisor at THE NEW INSTITUTE

Yuk Hui is a philosopher living in Berlin and Hong Kong.

Pankaj Mishra is a writer and lives in London.

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.

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...

In contemporary societies we can observe a growing tension when it comes to the relation between citizens and experts.

Lottie Cunningham Wren is a lawyer active in the fight to protect the rights of the indigenous people and the afro-descendants in Nicaragua.

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...

Joe Biden is the new President-elect – and Democrats have long insisted that an increasingly multi-ethnic population will favor them in the long-run.

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...

THE NEW INSTITUTE is opening its second call for fellowships for the program “The Future of Democracy”...

"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?

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.

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.