Insights

Notes from an emerging field.

Essays, research notes, conversations and reflections exploring the relationships that shape public life and possible futures.

Our Thinking
Forthcoming

Founding essay

What do we mean by relational futures?

How relationships among people, institutions, knowledge systems and the living world shape the futures we create.

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Development
In development

Research note

When solutions become part of the problem

Why well-intended interventions can create consequences beyond their original purpose.

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Technology
In development

Inquiry

Artificial intelligence and the future of human connection

Questions of agency, power, work and belonging in an age of intelligent machines.

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The library is growing

RFI will publish carefully, not constantly.

New work will appear here once it has been written, reviewed and approved. The ideas that frame it are set out in Our Thinking.

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