Project Area 1: Systems, Society & Human Experience

The Institute conducts multi-year research examining how environmental, social, and relational systems influence human well-being and collective life. This work centers on the connections between historical structures, contemporary conditions, and the shifting realities individuals and communities navigate daily.

Our focus is on understanding patterns, identifying emerging questions, and offering grounded insights that support meaningful change.

Project Area 2: Relational Ecology & Transformation

This area explores how relational systems — personal, communal, institutional, and environmental — shape the ways people experience connection, conflict, belonging, and transformation.

Through interdisciplinary inquiry, we study how relationships adapt under pressure, how environments influence behavior, and how individuals and groups create pathways toward healing, coherence, and understanding.

This work bridges social science, lived experience, and ecologic.

Project Area 3: Narrative, Memory & Emerging Futures

The Institutes develop work that engages narrative, memory, and the stories communities carry across generations. We examine how histories live in the present, how individuals make meaning after disruption, and how people imagine futures grounded in clarity, integrity, and possibility.

This project area supports writing, scholarship, and community engagement that invites deeper reflection about where we’ve been, who we are, and what is becoming.