CIFAR Future Flourishing

The idea that humans are separate from their environment, other organisms, or the tools they use — human exceptionalism — has been critiqued from all sides. But what will it mean to flourish without exceptionalism in the future? The interdisciplinary network in the Future Flourishing program brings together philosophers, historians, curators, conservators, artists and anthropologists to imagine what it will take to create a better world for all of the entities that make up humans and live with us.

This research programme explores the boundaries between humans and non-humans through a variety of observational vantage points, including animal cognition, the metabolic processes studied in modern chemistry, food and agricultural practices, and the forms 

• PI: Tarek ElKaik, Christopher Kelty, Hélène Mialet

• Partner: British Academy

• Website: https://cifar.ca/research-programs/future-flourishing/#topskipToContent

• Events programme: ‘Inhabiting the World at the age of Anthropocene’ Lecture Series convened by Stéphane Van Damme & Martine Drozdz