Consulting & Advisory
Policy advisory, commissioned research, relational-ethics review, program design, evaluation, and training, for governments, the UN system, universities, hospitals, and other NGOs.
The Work
Building the conditions for relation
We build relational infrastructure: the durable conditions that let relational being be understood, felt, decided well, made together, taught, and cared for, across distance, asymmetry, and vulnerability.
How we work
We work in the open. Process is shared, reflection is collective, infrastructure is built together, so anyone can follow a project, observe it, and respond.
Research & Development
We develop infrastructure ourselves: methods, curricula, indicators, frameworks, and, where it serves a relation, technology. Open-source in principle.
Development Support
We help partners build their own relational infrastructure: co-design, technical and methodological support, and long-term stewardship.
Deployment
We help put working infrastructure into real settings, care facilities, schools, institutions, and study, in the open, what actually happens.
The Nine Infrastructures
Not nine separate things, but one connected field: the durable conditions that let relational being be understood, felt, decided, made, taught, and cared for.
- I
Theoretical & Ontological
Seeing clearly how people are really bound to one another, and giving that understanding a precise, shared language.
- II
Epistemic
Coming to truly know and trust one another, instead of mistaking our own reflections, or a machine's, for the other person.
- III
Co-presence
Letting people who are far apart, lying in a hospital bed, or living alone still feel that someone is near.
- IV
Decision
Keeping a person's own voice audible in the decisions that shape their fate, care, welfare, education, justice, not only the data.
- V
Co-creative
Letting different people, including those with disabilities, the very old, those who struggle to express themselves, make something together, rather than be left out.
- VI
Educational
Teaching the next generation to truly listen, to feel, and to live in relationship, not only to test and compete.
- VII
Normative
Shaping law and justice so the rules we live by hold relationships, rather than flatten them.
- VIII
Ethical & Aesthetic
Sensing what is good in the places no rule can reach, a judgment as much felt as reasoned.
- IX
Care
Sustaining a relationship when it cannot be repaid in kind, when the other is fragile and depends on you.
Projects
Each infrastructure is carried by concrete projects. Every project is shown with its abstract and, where available, its proposal, reports, and disclosures, so anyone can follow the work in the open.
Projects will appear here as they are opened to the public.