Project Area 1: Systems, Society & Human Experience

Phillips Brickers Institutes™ conducts multi-year research examining how environmental, social, and relational systems shape human well-being and collective life. This work centers on the relationships between historical structures, contemporary conditions, and the shifting realities individuals and communities navigate in everyday life.

Our focus is on identifying patterns, tracing emergent questions, and offering grounded insight that supports understanding within complex social systems.

Project Area 2: Relational Ecology & Transformation

This project area explores how relational systems—personal, communal, institutional, and environmental—shape experiences of connection, conflict, orientation, and change.

Through interdisciplinary inquiry, we examine how relationships adapt under pressure, how environments influence behavior, and how individuals and groups cultivate pathways toward coherence, repair, and understanding.

This work bridges social science, lived experience, and ecological awareness.

Project Area 3: Narrative, Memory & Emerging Futures

This project area develops work engaging narrative, memory, and the stories carried across generations. We examine how histories persist in the present, how meaning is shaped after disruption, and how individuals and communities imagine futures grounded in clarity, coherence, and possibility.

The work supports writing, scholarship, and community engagement that invites deeper reflection on where we have been, how we are situated, and what is taking form.