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Society, Technology & Relational Futures
EXPLORING HOW TECHNOLOGIES, ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND INFORMATION ENVIRONMENTS SHAPE BELONGING, PARTICIPATION, CONTINUITY, AND RELATIONAL LIFE.
What kinds of systems support relational integrity and human flourishing?
Research Questions
- How do technologies reshape human relationships and participation?
- How might relational principles inform the development and use of artificial intelligence?
- What makes organizations and institutions capable of sustaining belonging, participation, and continuity?
- How do information environments influence relationships, identity, and collective life?
- How can relational integrity be evaluated within policy, technology, and institutional change?
- What forms of leadership support participation, responsibility, and shared purpose?
- How do societies move from fragmentation toward more relational forms of organization?
- What kinds of social and technological futures enable human and ecological flourishing?
Current Research
Artificial intelligence and relational ethics
Organizational dynamics
Relational integrity
Information environments
Technology and society
Leadership and participation
Relational impact assessment
Civilisational and social futures
project 1
Relational Intelligence: Kanyini and the Ontology of Artificial Intelligence
Explores how Indigenous principles of relationship and responsibility can inform the future development of artificial intelligence
project 2
Resonant Knowledge vs Linear Knowledge
Contrasts relational, participatory ways of knowing with linear models of knowledge and information
project 3
From Individualism to Belonging: A Civilisational Phase Shift
Investigates belonging as a possible foundation for emerging relational forms of collective life.
project 4
Dialogue as Belonging
Examines dialogue as a social process through which relationship, participation, and shared meaning are created.
project 5
Ancestral Future
Explores how societies can orient toward the future through continuity, care, responsibility, and intergenerational relationship.
project 6
Engineering the Sky
Examines technological intervention in planetary systems through ecological, ethical, and relational responsibility.
project 7
Community Wellbeing Through Kanyini
Explores relational principles that may support resilient communities, participation, care, and collective flourishing.
project 7
Pollution as Relational Breakdown
Investigates how institutional and technological practices can distribute environmental consequences across relationships, places, and generations.
project 8
Kanyini and the Survival of Meaning in the Anthropocene
Explores relational responsibility as a resource for responding to social and ecological disruption.
project 9
When Science Overreaches
Examines how the boundaries of scientific authority affect wider relationships among knowledge, institutions, and society.
project 10
Language Futures
Investigates the future of linguistic diversity as part of cultural resilience, identity, and human flourishing.