Chapter 1
ROOTS
Who are we? Stuck vs. grounded.
We start the season at the beginning — our roots. Here we connect psychology and place to ask: who are we? We consider home, city, language, culture and ancestry to explore our formation.
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2026 / 2027 Season
Life Cycles
What does it mean to be human? To move across the earth — or to remain still, held in place by borders, circumstance, or the limits of the body and mind? To flee, travel, build, explore, grow and age? To live, exist, and navigate humanity in all its beauty and contradiction.
We live in a world accelerating at extraordinary speed: shaped by digital chaos, misinformation, and an artificial intelligence we both embrace and fear. In such a world, what does it mean to be human? To be grounded in the earth, to find stability, to move and to be moved — and, eventually, to let go.
This season began with a book and a set of questions spanning displacement, rootlessness, migration, movement and stillness; travel, mobility, preservation, collections and the body — ultimately, questions of time and humanity.
The Journey
Three chapters.
An annual season of ideas, Life Cycles unfolds across an interconnected three-chapter journey through the human experience. It is an evolving narrative that moves between community-led encounters and larger flagship events, creating continuity rather than a single moment.
A movement through what shapes us, moves us, and remains. Join us for the full sequence.
Chapter 2
MOVEMENT
Mobility and freedom vs. displacement and rootlessness.
Where Roots asks what grounds us, Movement asks what happens when we begin to move through the world — by choice or by force.
Chapter 3
PRESERVATION
Death vs. longevity — what do we leave behind?
The season closes by asking what remains: what we preserve, what we let go of, and what we pass on.
