We all have a responsibility to future life
Social and environmental crises are colliding. Academia is not set up to help society navigate towards a safer, fairer, and more sustainable future.
We can change this.
We all have a responsibility to future life
Social and environmental crises are colliding. Academia is not set up to help society navigate towards a safer, fairer, and more sustainable future.
We can change this.
Faculty for a Future helps universities unlock their transformative potential to navigate the polycrisis through people-powered decision-making. We support university groups to run inclusive deliberative assemblies in universities, helping them become:
- Widespread: 100+ universities by 2025
- Impactful: supported to make tangible progress beyond the assemblies themselves
- Networked: a connected movement able to learn from each other, and capable of collectively addressing deeper systemic issues
- Permanent: we envision assemblies as a fixture of university decision-making
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Our story
Faculty for a Future was formed in summer 2021 by a group of academics who felt similarly disempowered and unable to face up to a complex and precarious future.
To find out more about our perspective on this future, please read our analysis of the crisis, a distillation of research at the intersection of social and ecological issues into six key points describing the world ahead. It outlines our understanding of the emerging world and informs the objectives and development of all of our work.
For our thoughts on the role of academia in this crisis, check out our about us page.
Values
Academia has never been value-free. To orient objective academic work towards a safer, fairer, and healthier future, we are guided by four values.
Acceptance: We join the dots between different academic disciplines and lived experience, actively acknowledging the severity of environmental and social crises.
Care: We feel a duty of care to those most affected by these crises, and a responsibility to prioritise life, wellbeing, and justice.
Integrity: We aim to conduct our personal and professional lives with respect, courage, and modesty, towards a better and more equal future for all living things.
Freedom: We seek ever greater freedom to act with care and integrity, so that others can enjoy ever greater freedom to live well.
