Working alongside others, we prod, explore and deconsecrate the sacred cows that shape how social change is being imagined, seeking to spark new ways of engaging with complex and entangled challenges.
In the name of Public Good - a line of questioning that began in Arantzazu through conversations with innovation ecosystem leaders focused on collaborative governance and alliances among small nations. It asks what the /a public good is, who gets to speak in its name, for whom it is defined, where legitimacy is rooted, and how we determine what is good versus not. As an extension, the inquiry now turns to psychedelics, artificial intelligence, and the law. The Inaugural Thinkers in Residence - Exaptation, Dysphoria, the Strange and the Familiar
Love & Policy - sermons by Judy Ling Wong to accompany and steward us on this adventure In the name of public good What's the embedded ethics there?
Is it social liberalism? Is it harsh neoliberalism?
Is it some kind of weird mixture of the two? Read on Substack
Anna Grant
Demos Helsinki, Finnish Innovation Grant SitraThinkers in Residence A landscape I didn't quite understand Read in the book
Annesophie Norn
Museums for United Nations (UN Live)In the name of public good There is an unbelievable confusion, conceptual confusion, about the Common Good, common goods, public good, public goods and the general will...
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Antonio Casado
University of the Basque CountryIn the name of public good In my mind and when I hear public good, it's one of those dystopian terms. I don't think it's necessarily cynical, but I do think it's dangerous.
My personal mission or goal is to help people stay human in the hypertech world and that's important and so is critical thinking, abstract thinking - pure imagination. Do we have spaces where people are invited and inspired and where they desire to wonder, to be in awe, literally to wonder, to be “wonder-full”? Read on Substack
Bria Clemmons
Global Sports Attorney Thinkers in ResidenceBetween words and across words and underneath words Read in the book
We Are Museums, BlueshiftIn the name of public good I believe that “public” means that we need to feel it, that it's also ours, and that we have a say in it. I find for our well being and for dealing with the public good, we have to have rich relationships. And then the other one that we need to take into account is the limit of the environment and our planet. By going out away from our computers and getting to know our context, connecting to others, we are producing more public good.(...) To see the value of those activities. It would seem like losing time. So I feel like we need to really make a big shift in our societies. Read on Substack
Ione Ardaiz Osacar
ArantzazulabLove and Policy. Letters.Of course, when we extend beyond ourselves, we are confronted with chaos. It is important to recognise that chaos is just what it is. We just have to find our own way to our own effective presence as part of it, so that entry into chaos is a choice and an opportunity to make a difference.
Never underestimate the power of the presence of your full aliveness and how you can be the agent of cultural richness. Read in the book
Judy Ling Wong CBE
Black Environment NetworkThinkers in ResidenceThe more you put into, the more you got out of it Read in the book
Kalle Hellzén
180 Amsterdam / Artist & DesignerThinkers in ResidenceEverything was strange Read in the book
BBC Media Action In the name of public good There's something more in the lore and the relationships in between people. That is important... Read on Substack
Michelle Baldwin
Community Foundations of Canada, Faculty Governance Leadership Ethics, Huron University CollegeThinkers in ResidenceA little further into the water Read in the book
Nick Meehan
VVSSL, Berlin Institute for Sound and MusicThinkers in ResidenceThe conversation is not over... Read in the book
Olivier Bréchard
Learning Planet Institute In the name of public goodBringing in the right psychological space is going to be key going forward, to making sure that that we've all really got this space for psychological safety, belonging and motivation and, you know, there are so many messed up people, and we're just so lonely and so confused, including young people, we've got to somehow bring back that sense of community for and say: ‘See: this is your landscape, this is your belonging, this is where you get your local food from’.
A lot of it comes back to land - and land ownership, land management. There's so little creativity and thinking about how could we lock land into the public good, rather than leave it to the whims of the market.
It comes back to the collective and understanding that we're going to have to think beyond our private realm.
I go out into the public realm and therefore I give something that is for others’ good, suspending the thinking about just ourselves and go out and actually give. Read on Substack
Sara Prosser
Bioregional Weaving IrelandThinkers in ResidenceIf you can't be dysporic, there's no way you can be fully engaged in the process Read in the book
Terri Gilbert
Shawoman & Scientific Educator (Brain Science)In the name of public goodOrganisational structure is interesting to me. Why would we model it after the corporate world? (...)
Form drives behaviour. We need to support relational infrastrusture. Read on Substack