An Open Letter
to the Future

01 Pandemics

are accelerators of mental renewal. Things emerge in emergencies. We refuse to go back to normal. Normal wasn’t working anyway. Many are calling the Coronavirus the Great Reset.

02 Resets

are required when there are fractures. When our social systems fail in front of our eyes, it is not only possible to radically reimagine, it is irresponsible to do anything less. We need to pause, break our addiction to fast time. Gift ourselves the slow time of regeneration.

03 Regeneration

is an act of moral care. We are propelled by an audacious sense of possibility. The next decade will enjoy a profound imagination designing and building new ways to thrive in the world. We are convening a community committed to Radical Futures.

04 Radical Futures

come to life when we question commonly held beliefs, immerse ourselves within communities in transformation, propose challenger projects, and engage the public in the stories of possibility. To realize this, we are barn raising an experimental school.

05 School

needs to be redesigned. The objective is not to know what things are, but ask what they might become. To work on ourselves, create new ways to work with others, and work on the institutions and systems of public life. A guided and self-guided transformative experience.

06 Experience

is the meal of wisdom. We are an intergenerational, interdisciplinary, inter-geographic learning cooperative. Made up of and led by challengers. A community of radically curious leaders. Collective action catalyzes change. It requires participation.

We’re galvanizing
a new experimental learning community.

What is needed, now more than ever is nothing short of complete disorientation and reorientation of thinking. A community committed to co-authoring how the next chapter will unfold. Guided by new abilities, sensibilities, and moral models for flourishing. This "unlearning" community is a four-part journey of signature experiences and work products. A guided adventure that is rigorous and joyful, individual and collaborative, digitally remote and selectively in person, carefully curated, and audacious in ambition.

ASKING
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

• APRIL-SEPTEMBER 2021Think deeply alongside leading challengers in a five-month digital discourse, followed by the creation of a thorough Inquiry Plan that will serve as your guide to unpacking complex cultural change.

UNDERSTANDING
COMPLEX CHANGE

• • SEPTEMBER-FEBRUARYFully immerse with a newfound critical consciousness in a community undergoing profound cultural change, followed by the creation of your own Design Brief that will serve as your catalyst for proposing transformative intervent…

PROPOSING
NEW MODELS

• • • • SPRING 2022Author and engage with 100 proposals that articulate clear and compelling visions for a better shared future through this inaugural Story Studio, multi-media showcase and school-wide commencement.

CATALYZING
CULTURAL IMPACT

• • • WINTER 2021Co-author new ways to thrive in the world by collaboratively framing design possibilities for the next decade, and develop an audacious Challenge Proposal that will be your blueprint for the next decade of impact.

Participation is everything.

Over the past 10-years, we’ve concierged a community of thousands of exceptional challengers through our IDEAS Salon forum. A network of talent committed to accelerating the ideas, projects, and organizations shaping the future. Looking forward, we invite you to join our global collaborative community and share the multi-disciplinary and multi-sensorial experiences found in this lifestyle of inquiry.