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If you feel something is shifting and want to explore and connect with others, come and join us.

Next call Thursday 19 November 20:30–22:00 CET · online, free
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Come to a call

Meet people asking the same big questions, and start something together. Part conversation, part room for the projects people are starting. Come once or come often.

Weekly · 90 minutes · online, free What happens on a call →
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Talk it through on the forum

Discuss the questions behind the podcast and papers: what's going wrong, what could come next, how to live well now. Read along first; post when you're ready.

Any time · at your own pace Visit the forum →
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Learn with others

Take an online course: get to the roots of the ideas, with other people to think them through with.

Online · small groups See the courses →
If you want to go further
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Want better research on these questions?

A research group is working on how societies change and renew. Read their work and come to a Friday call.

Meet the research group →
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Want to write or make art?

Each issue of the magazine gathers art, poems, stories, practices and essays around one theme. The call for the next issue, Eternity, is open until 10 January 2027.

Read the open call →

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