What is the society?
The Society brings together those who want to create conversations that open up new possibilities in difficult times.
We are experimenting with dialogues, forums and practices that challenge polarisation, disrupt power relations, and open up pathways to ecologically sustainable and socially just futures.
We experiment, we study, and we share what we learn.
Who is ‘we’?
The society was set up by four collaborators – Åsa Berggren, an ecologist with interests in the future of food, Keri Facer, an undisciplined researcher and futurist concerned with time and listening, Pernilla Glaser, a writer/ facilitator/therapist drawn to play, and Jasmine Zhang, an anthropologist with an interest in inter-disciplinarity.
The society is also a loose network of people from all sectors of society who are curious about and exploring new forms of dialogue. Our members are facilitators and researchers, community organisers and government officials. They join our workshops and events and share their own practice with other members and here on our website.
‘Where’ are we?
Based at the Swedish Agricultural University in Uppsala, Sweden – where we hold most of the Society’s events – and in Bristol, where Keri is based.
We are also wherever interesting conversations are happening.
Photography by Cajsa Lithell