Others is a postdisciplinary research and strategy cooperative. We work with visionary leaders around the world to deconstruct stagnating complexity and design the future during times of transformation.
As an early stage startup we are currently focused on three endeavors.
(Community Building) Cultivating a community of artists, academics, policy makers, and professionals who share a common ache to reimagine how we imagine. We all this practice Dream Thinking.
(Consultancy & Think Tank) Partnering with like minded organizations who seek to better understand the dark matter shaping the future of society, specifically within the context of the four systems that constitute our research ontology. See below.
(Micro Conferencing) Convening an intimate invite-only group of public and private executive leaders to discuss fringe and disruptive ideas that exist outside the mainstream, yet have the potential to radically disrupt business and society as we know it. If you are interested participating in this forum, please reach out.
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Our Ontological Model for Research
In the pursuit of shared prosperity among human and non-human persons, we focus on four domains of inquiry — educational systems of learning, existential systems of meaning, economic systems of value, and ecological systems of emergence.
These four domains of inquiry comprise what we consider to be the primary building blocks of a prosperous society. Additionally, these building blocks are (intra)relational—they each shape and inform the others. Educational systems of knowledge shape and inform existential systems of meaning. Or said more simply, our knowledge of the world shapes our knowledge of ourselves (our identity, our purpose), and our knowledge of ourselves shapes our knowledge of the world—these categories of knowledge are inextricable, or what some may call 'intersectional.' Likewise, our economics is inextricable from our ecologies—our relationships to each other, to our institutions, and the world around us.
These four domains of inquiry help direct our dream thinking—the practice of encountering, exploring, understanding, and communicating stories of possibility. We call these stories Functional Fictions—the narrative scaffolding by which our hopes, dreams, and aspirations are built and shared with others. The stories that catalyze a faith in the possibility of the impossible; a new way of being, together.
