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31 research categories across 4 orientations
ASSEMBLY
Climate Justice & Global South Leadership
1 actors
Movements centring equity, reparation, and southern leadership
Education for Planetary Citizenship
3 actors
Curricula and methods for raising crew members
Global Governance Innovation
5 actors
New models for planetary-scale decision-making
Long-termism & Future Generations
1 actors
Institutional design for intergenerational responsibility
Network States & Parallel Institutions
0 actors
Digital-first governance experiments, opt-in societies
Participatory Democracy Movements
10 actors
Citizens' assemblies, deliberative democracy, sortition
Planetary Health & One Health
1 actors
Frameworks connecting human, animal, and ecosystem health
Rights of Nature
5 actors
Legal personhood for ecosystems, earth jurisprudence
GARDEN
Bioacoustics & Ecosystem Sensing
1 actors
Listening to ecosystems through sound, sensors, monitoring
Biodiversity & Ecosystem Restoration
3 actors
Rewilding, corridor ecology, species recovery
Community Land Trusts & Commons
4 actors
Collective land ownership, commons governance, anti-enclosure
Indigenous Land Stewardship
3 actors
Traditional ecological knowledge, indigenous governance, land rights
Nature-Based Economies
3 actors
Economies rooted in ecological health, not extraction
Regenerative Agriculture
7 actors
Agroforestry, permaculture, food forests, soil restoration
Water & Ocean Stewardship
1 actors
Watershed governance, ocean conservation, blue economy
SPACESHIP
AI for Planetary Governance
5 actors
AI serving ecological decision-making, climate modelling, resource allocation
Anti-Corruption & Transparency Infrastructure
0 actors
Zero-knowledge proofs, open ledgers, institutional transparency
Blockchain & Regenerative Finance (ReFi)
8 actors
Nature-backed tokens, transparent ledgers, regenerative finance
Decentralised Governance Tech
5 actors
DAOs, quadratic voting, liquid democracy tools, participatory platforms
Digital Twins & Earth Modelling
4 actors
Planetary-scale simulation, digital twins, earth system models
Open Earth Data & Satellite Intelligence
6 actors
Open-source earth observation, satellite monitoring, climate data
Spatial Web & IoT Infrastructure
2 actors
Spatial computing, mesh networks, programmable physical space
Steward Ownership & Alternative Corporate Models
2 actors
Purpose-driven ownership, cooperatives, commons-based enterprise
TEMPLE
Arts & Performance for Social Change
1 actors
Theatre, immersive art, participatory performance as civic practice
Experiential Futures & Design Fiction
3 actors
Embodied futures, immersive scenarios, speculative design
Festival & Burn Culture
1 actors
Participatory festivals, temporary autonomous zones, gift economy events
Megagames & Civilisational Simulation
7 actors
Large-scale multi-player simulations of governance and society
Overview Effect & Awe Research
0 actors
Psychology of awe, overview effect, planetary consciousness
Psychedelic & Consciousness Research
1 actors
Altered states, contemplative practice, consciousness studies
Ritual & Ceremony Design
1 actors
Contemporary ritual practice, rites of passage, collective meaning-making
Transformative Game Design & LARP
4 actors
Games and role-play designed for personal/social transformation