architectures
Segregation and Urban Design: Does the Urban Structure Inhibit the Sharing of Public Space?
Ann Legeby, KTH School of Architecture Seminars hosts are Peter Hedström, David Sumpter and Fredrik Liljeros from the Institute for Futures Studies. The seminars are free of charge and take place at 12
Postdoctoral researcher studying the psychological significance of online recommendations
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in a project that aims to empirically investigate the psychological impact of online recommendation systems.
Chapter 26: The evolution of legal positivism: Reflections on continuity and discontinuity in the positivist tradition
In Zaluski, W., Bourgeois-Gironde, S. & A. Dyrda (eds.) Research Handbook on Legal Evolution. Elgar Abstract This chapter maps the evolution of legal positivism (LP) with an eye to both continuous and
Whatever You Want: Inconsistent Results is the Rule, Not the Exception, in the Study of Primate Brain Evolution
PLoS ONE Abstract Primate brains differ in size and architecture. Hypotheses to explain this variation are numerous and many tests have been carried out. However, after body size has been accounted for
Benjamin Gerdes
Benjamin Gerdes is an artist, writer, and organizer working in video, film, and related public formats, individually as well as collaboratively. He is interested in intersections of radical politics,
Movie premiere! A New Society
Why do we need social progress? On July of 2014 a monumental task began as hundreds of the world's leading academics came together to set new standards for a just, secure and healthy global society. T has been tirelessly forming a non-partisan report addressed to all social actors, movements, organizations, politicians, and decision-makers in order to provide an architecture for present and future global issues and crises.
Eli Cook: Choose Your Own Captivity: Choice Architects and the Analog Origins of Digital Capitalism
Venue: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online Research seminar with Eli Cook, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Haifa. Abstract Based on my forthcoming book with Penguin-Random House, seeks to redefine how we understand freedom and power in a choice-saturated world.
New study deconstructs Dunbar’s number – yes, you can have more than 150 friends
An individual human can maintain stable social relationships with about 150 people. This is the proposition known as ‘Dunbar’s number’ – that the architecture of the human brain sets an upper limit on
Urban Futures from Essentials to Experiences - The transformative role of marketplaces in 21st century cities
Place: The Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, StockholmRegister hereInformality is on the rise. From remote labour and services-on-demand to food trucks and pop-up shops, its transformat
History of the Institute
Throughout history, people have consulted everything from oracles to crystal balls in order to predict the future. But it was not until the 1960s that interest developed in a more systematic study of
