citizens of the future

when we find the convergence of where we belong and where we are encouraged or at least allowed to make a contribution, the magic happens.

The aim of all of these was to shift the culture so that citizens felt a shared responsibility for their city, while expanding their sense of what might be possible after a long period of depressed fatalism.

In the worst of these conditions, knowledge is wielded as a tool of power through which education systems can actively oppress entire populations, preventing the awareness of their own agency in their lives.

It is as though a student can identify with either the story of capitalism or that of civic enlightenment, but never both.

Fundamentally, Citizens are humans who want to shape the world around us for the better, and who claim and where necessary demand the right and the means to do so. To be a Citizen is to care, to take responsibility, to acknowledge one’s inherent power. To be a Citizen is to cultivate meaningful connection to a web of relationships and institutions.

What if we understood the opportunity that “radical” represents as not only the process of inquiry but also the permission to shift the very subject of the inquiry? Could Radical Curiosity enable us to take on the most essential questions that have challenged us for centuries?

Radical Curiosity questions commonly held beliefs to imagine flourishing futures. To be radically curious is to challenge the narratives inherited from the past and author new stories that reflect who we are and what we value today. It is to recognize when our collective wisdom, like any outdated technology, needs an operating system upgrade.