Consilience Project, The

The Consilience Project was founded in order to explore and address some of the profound challenges facing public sensemaking at a time of rapid technological change. Its original set of publications aimed to describe the state of our information commons and uncover the roots of the challenges facing open societies.

While the topic of public sensemaking remains at the core of the Project’s focus, future publications will also touch upon adjacent fields with an impact on people’s ability to think critically and holistically about the state of the world, such as politics, warfare, vested economic interests, and advanced technologies.

The Consilience lens is about bringing together multiple perspectives, so that a clearer understanding may emerge from the synergies between different viewpoints. The articles aim to provide a set of frames for making sense of our world system, and as such they may also analyze consequential global topics that need to be understood more broadly if humanity is to succeed in engaging with our challenges in any meaningful way.

The Consilience Project is a publication of the Civilization Research Institute.