What if, beyond form and function, we designed our world for flourishing?

We are a research space for the creative fields to explore and shape a new culture of flourishing.

Prize

What if mushrooms can help us grow new economies of care?

Helen Chen

Fruiting Bodies: Internet of Mycelium (IoM)
ThoughtfulWondrous community, environment

What if our neighborhoods could come alive with regenerative energy?

Daan Roosegaarde

Gates of Light & WindVogel
ThoughtfulWondrous environment, infrastructure

What if we enlisted kids to help us balance the masculine and feminine in all of us?

Andrew Schlesinger

GENTLEmen
AuthenticHuman culture, education

What if we could translate other species’ languages to co-create our future world?

Natalie Jeremijenko

Mussel Choir
PlayfulThoughtful environment, infrastructure

It’s time we give intolerance a playful kick in the pants.

Antanas Mockus
Krista Tippett
John Oliver
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Nelly Ben Hayoun

HumanPlayful politics, society

It’s time we move beyond the call for greatness into a much grander imagination.

Anthony Dunne
Neri Oxman 
Bjarke Ingels
Michael Bloomberg 
Anab Jain

PlayfulThoughtful culture, society

William Myers and Georgina McDowall

PlayfulThoughtfulculture, society

Founders of M21D on reinventing the museum beyond conservation to conversation about how we can thoughtfully re-design our world.

Anne Quito

AuthenticThoughtfulculture, society

The award-winning Quartz design critic on limning injustice with love letters to the world.

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