Designing institutions that are aligned with living system principles
We are living in a time of entangled global crisis, often described as a polycrisis. Our institutions are not equipped to meet this reality. More than that, the way they are designed and operated actively accelerates it. Built on a mechanistic worldview shaped by reductionism, separation, and control, modern institutions attempt to manage the world as if it were a machine. But the world they are acting within is not mechanical. It is composed of living, vibrating systems. This is not only a problem of greater complexity. It is a clash of ontologies. The Living Institutions Project explores how to design and govern institutions as living systems that can sense, learn and adapt in ways sufficient to meet the polycrisis.
Collaborating Organizations
