"What the inventive genius of mankind has bestowed upon us... could have made human life care free and happy if the development of the organizing power of man had been able to keep step with his technical advances." — Albert Einstein, Berlin, September 4, 1931

Human Systems is about "redesigning social systems around human values and meaningful lives". As it says in Our Mission, "We need new local and global systems... that work together to support 11 billion people with meaningful lives at zero carbon. New forms of architecture, politics, economics, land ownership, agriculture, etc."

It comes down to a simple (but very large) task—we must replace the western "social stack".

The Social Stack*

How do we replace all of this with something new?

Society

• Public sphere
• Economy
• Nation of self governing people

Org/institution

• Corporation
• Club
• School

Team

• Product team
• Family
• Church group

• also known as: the social imaginary, the social pattern language

Our Work

Human Systems provides infrastructure for this work. This involves coordinating and funding research (via the Turtleocracy and HS Web of Questions), it involves testing new institutional ideas in various settings (via the Test Network).

• Our research groups

And it involves keeping everyone abreast of the state of the art in:

• values-based institutional redesign (Redesign Method and HS101 Deluxe)
• metrics (HS202: Monitoring for Values and How They’re Working Out )
• and of new criteria by which our community is learning to judge its inventions (‣ and Towards “Game B”).