citizens of the future

length distance outside our radius of exposure. Yet our present experience is anchored by legacy narratives. Our past is a silent investment partner in our future. Our ability to contribute to the next emergent chapter in our story is dependent on our ability to distinguish between resilient wisdom and situational practices that are no longer

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 requires that we approach the world critically, rather than passively. It compels us to question the ways in which power operates, often invisibly, rather than accepting the power structures that the world has presented to us.

If we are to take on the task of renewing the world, we need to care so deeply about the world and about the future that we are willing to unlearn many of the mental models and ideologies that have been directly or indirectly taught to us. To do this requires Radical Curiosity.

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.

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

Meanwhile, the majority of “normals” (to borrow a term from the sci-fi film Gattaca) are expected to take orders, complete tasks, stand in line, clock in and out . . . punctually, obediently, subserviently. No dancing in the halls, and certainly no daydreaming about a world put together differently.