There is a future of possibilities we haven't yet dreamed of.
imagine a stone city built on water a thousand years ago.

We deliver immersive human mastery programs in the singular city of Venice, Italy.

PURPOSE

To push the limits of imagination and embrace the future.

Our first response to the challenge of global mental health quickly broadened to lifespan development, lifelong learning, human displacement and institutional integrity — all underpinned by age old existential questions.

The most important connection remains with yourself.

IN/VEST YOURSELF

Technology has given us the opportunity to think about quality of life. Algorithms, a new sense of scale, and AI, the possibility of other dimensions. Meanwhile, climate change draws us towards a sustainable society.

Conscious future-making, at the intersection of art, science and nature, is at our core..

For hundreds of years artists and intellectuals have profited from residencies to focus full-time on their creative life.

Time out to be open minded and create value for self and others.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay

‘Whether it was boats or money, medicine or face cream, opera, semicolons, tiramisu or child-labor laws, these all originated in Venice and have shaped contemporary notions of institutions and conventions ever since. The foundation of how we now think about community, health care, money, consumerism, and globalization all sprung forth from the Laguna Veneta.’

Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization, Meredith F. Small

BOOKSHELF

Are we greater than the sum of our parts? Are we science fiction? Or are we more basic than we’ve ever imagined? What do you already know about how you want to live in the future — physically, spatially, communally and aesthetically?