A large-scale experiment finds that brief online videos explaining democratic principles — rights, checks and balances, accountability — measurably strengthen support for democracy and reduce acceptance of authoritarian alternatives, even among the politically disengaged.
A PhD student at Learning Planet Institute examines how education within prisons shapes justice capital and institutional recognition — testing whether carceral systems can transform or merely replicate inequality.
V-Dem's annual assessment finds 74% of humanity now lives under autocracy, with 44 countries actively autocratizing. The US loses liberal democracy status as freedom of expression and legislative constraints deteriorate worldwide.
A doctoral researcher at FIRE examines bacteriophages to understand life's fundamental coupling of form and function — a question with implications for how we design adaptive, living governance systems.
A new PhD student joins the FIRE Doctoral School at Learning Planet Institute, bringing a background in agronomy and molecular biology to questions of research and learning systems. Another researcher entering the work of governance experimentation.
A three-year transnational project examines how nature-based infrastructure performs in post-disaster cities across Japan, Sweden, and Poland — treating urban recovery as a testing ground for ecological governance under stress.
The research collective has released a working paper proposing standards for governance tool interoperability — enabling rules and processes to flow between online communities, DAOs, and physical assemblies.
Learning Planet Institute's Graduate School in Paris seeks students willing to cross disciplinary boundaries to address systemic challenges — a model that tests whether academic structures can adapt to planetary-scale problems.
New satellite research reveals that 40% of corn and 60% of wheat depend on land-based rainfall — unstable moisture from forests, wetlands, and soil that agricultural expansion is actively destroying.
Researchers at Bonn University developed a self-cleaning filter modeled on fish gills that captures microplastics from washing machines — addressing a governance gap where household infrastructure meets ocean pollution.