liberating thoughts for reflexive minds
We co-organise a symposium ‘Imagining Futures for a New Humanism’ together with the Robert Boyle Foundation at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin. Download the programme here, and check the event website www.newhumanism24.com.
Can we try to make the world a better place for all?… Read more > >
The pamphlet ‘Verbeter de wereld. Begin bij het onderwijs’ (in Dutch) was published today, and marks the start of a dialogue organised in cooperation with the news website APACHE. The local dialogue in Dutch will soon be extended with new international events.… Read more > >
What are the intellectual and ethical competences children need to develop in order to become (self)reflexive, caring and tolerant cosmopolitans or ‘citizens of the world’?
What kind of education could support and guide them in that becoming while they are exploring their own path of life?… Read more > >
Centerpoint Now is a publication of the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations (WCPUN). The new issue, entitled ‘Are We There Yet?’, is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the United Nations with articles on older and new challenges for global governance (the last obviously including the virus pandemic).… Read more > >
We contributed a chapter to the book “Bio#Futures – Foreseeing and Exploring the Bioeconomy” published by Springer. While other contributions explore sustainable development methodologies and practical applications, we were invited to provide an ethical-philosophical framework applicable to the bioeconomy.
See more info and purchase options here: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030649685… Read more > >
Health.Holism.Cosmopolitanism
– building ethical competence for human health –
This text is a contribution for the next issue of the magazine Centerpoint Now published by the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations (issue to be published later this year)
Health is the basic human capacity that makes everything else in life possible.… Read more > >
We joined the Network of the Paris Committee on Capacity Building, a voluntary association of interested stakeholders engaged in climate-related capacity-building, an essential condition for current and future climate change resilience, as specified in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.… Read more > >
The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2-virus has now lead to a global pandemic, followed by a worldwide mobilization to control the spread of the virus and courageous attempts to care for the vulnerable and the already affected. Of course, the current crisis needs a prompt practical and globally coordinated reaction, but let us use this case to also go into some deeper thinking about the world we live in and in which the current crisis became possible.… Read more > >
We participated in the first UNESCO Global Futures Literacy Design Forum in Paris on Monday 16 December 2019.
The Forum brought the general public together with leading Futures Literacy practitioners, designers, facilitators, teachers and researchers. It had two primary objectives. One is to prepare the ground for a UNESCO Ministerial Summit on Futures Literacy in late 2020 by showcasing and refining a range of already proven techniques for integrating Futures Literacy into government activities.… Read more > >
We were invited by the UN Climate Change Secretariat to present our New Humanism Project during the Capacity Building TED Talks at the United Nations Madrid Climate Change Conference on 11 September 2019.
See the presentation with the talk here.… Read more > >