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The difficulty of difficult conversations

Reflection on our recent Protopia Lab workshop in Barcelona Finally, after two years since the founding of Protopia Lab, we were able to...

Workshop in Barcelona 28/29 October: Difficult conversations in polarised times

We are delighted to announce that we are hosting our first in-person Protopia Lab workshop 'Difficult conversations in polarised times'...

Switching off the autopilot: An evolutionary toolbox for the Great Transition (book)

This book is about the ecological crisis that threatens to collapse our entire civilisation. It is about the crisis of liberal democracy unf

Three theses for the Protopia Lab

Highly polarised societies won’t tackle the environmental crisis Tackling our most pressing problems like climate change requires...

The Protopia Lab Newsletter January 2022

The agitation against and exclusion of the unvaccinated from large parts of public life – as we have seen in many Western democracies...

Can the pandemic serve as a model for tackling climate change?

Why we should value dissent and not just ‘follow the science' Perhaps it is a very positive phenomenon that emerged at the beginning of...

Doughnut Economics is the answer, isn’t it?

Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics has been hugely successful in progressive civil society spaces. It pops up everywhere as the solution...

New book: The Social Instinct – How Cooperation Shaped the World (Nichola Raihani)

A growing number of activists and civil society spaces focus their attention on the idea that we humans have to get rid of our...

Become a Supporter of the Protopia Lab

Help us start a new conversation and foster diverse perspectives Very soon, when the Covid 19 restrictions are lifted throughout Europe,...

Why do we need to switch off the autopilot?

Ever since Darwin, evolutionary biology has been used to justify all kinds of different political philosophies and economic orders.

New publication: Thinking about climate change and polarisation together

How to start a new conversation Tackling our most pressing problems like climate change requires ground-breaking solutions that can reach...

The Protopia Lab Newsletter December 2020

This is our first official newsletter for the Protopia Lab (from what was formerly the Smart CSOs Lab newsletter). The reason for this trans

Invitation to Online Workshop Series: Starting A New Conversation

Are you worried about the spiral of polarisation in our societies, and the dysfunctional public conversation around our most pressing issues