Between cosmopolitanism and escapism, we are searching for orientation. Timely concepts for social and political architectures of order are necessary to shape our concepts of living. Is it possible to go back to the approach “small is beautiful” as Ernst Friedrich Schuhmacher and Leopold Kohr proclaim? Or are we running into danger by not seeing the signs of time?
The laws of boundlessness, simultaneity and velocity accelerate our lives and shorten, by increasing urgency, the time to find appropriate solutions for the problems of our time. Are we able to take the opportunity of the digital revolution and social media, to overcome the pitfall of “over newsed but underinformed”?
The desire for manageability, for equity, for succession in live is significant. The regulatory framework, within we are able to fulfill our desires, requires continuous reflection and renewal. What holds the world together: that’s what its all about at the 20th GLOBART Academy.