"We have this sick model, right, that's operating. Your spiritual life, your purpose is separate from your work, and the world. And so you go to Sundays, you go for your spiritual life, and the rest of the time you're like, doing something else. So how do we actually see work as worship again, the sacredness of all the work that we're doing in the world, I think that's one of the invitations of a 'livelihood'.
[And I have some questions for this]: so, does the work I do give me a sense of joy and purpose? Does the work I do help to generate real wealth—so real wealth being, our social bonds, natural ecosystems, our local knowledge systems, our health, our time with children and relationships with children, for example? All of these things are unmeasured by the current economic models that we have. So how do we bring different forms of wealth into our conversation? And seeing, am I part of a model which is depleting or commodifying those forms of wealth?"
In this session, we explore a world of commons: where resources are managed together, where we are all stewards, all stakeholders. How can we resist the idea that Silicon Valley algorithms know better? How do we rewrite the rules? How can we revalue diversity and the local? How could technology mirror ecology? We hear from experts who are building infrastructure to take back the commons and generate capacity towards a fundamental transformation of the digital age. We also explore what a diverse education system might mean, and how important it is to unlearn many of the realities we have come to believe as our only option.
Nathalie Nahai
taught by Nathalie Nahai
