This July, we began our annual Gathering with a visit to CERN IdeaSquare in Geneva, continuing our collaboration with CERN for a second year.
Across four sessions — three online and one in person — participants worked in interdisciplinary teams, co-facilitated by CERN and School of Commons, to imagine bold responses to complex societal challenges. Together, they explored what it might take to build a new society from the ground up, considering questions of governance, education, healthcare, infrastructure, ecology, and collective care.
During the in-person workshop at CERN, participants also met students from the Stony Brook Center, who were exploring related challenges in parallel. The exchange created an opportunity to share perspectives across disciplines and institutions before everyone travelled on to Zurich for the School of Commons Gathering.
Over the following three days, our community gathered to share practices, exchange methods, and reflect on what it means to learn, create, and organise in common.
