Cosmopolis2045

The Cosmopolis2045 project is a collaborative thought experiment involving many people and taking place over a number of years exploring the question of what sort of better social world can be made possible through attending meaningfully to the process of communicating.

The website depicting our vision of Cosmopolis is one manifestation of our response to the challenge of how do you envision better social worlds, knowing that there is no “best” goal outside of the very process of communicating itself. On that site, we have created a virtual depiction of a community set in the future (circa 2045) in which residents and leaders of the community have adopted a communication-centric view of how their own and other social worlds function. It is our belief, and one that can be substantiated, that this communication-centric view is what we need for the evolution of better social worlds.

You will find many stories of how everyday citizens can become visionary leaders for new social initiatives, how new modes of living, being and working together can emerge, and how new social institutions can evolve. The website is also a resource-rich site for exploring these new possibilities for a better social future.