HORIZON 02024 – 02027 / An Inquiry into 10,000-Year Learning Futures
The Long Now
Core Convictions / Vision & Values
Traditional education reform has repeatedly focused on working to improve existing systems without questioning their fundamental premises. The Long Now of Education is an opportunity to break free from this cycle by asking questions in a radically different context.
“The current educational model was designed in a bygone era. Despite numerous reform efforts, the fundamental structure remains largely unchanged—often dehumanizing our schools. Moving beyond requires more than standing at the edge of the box, talking about what is outside of it. Instead, we must move into the space outside the box to truly reimagine what is possible in the future of education.”
From the Founding Working Papers · LNE Synthesis
The Four Guiding Values
Education that nurtures and supports each human and the living world over centuries.
We view learning not as a transaction to extract human capital, but as an act of multi-generational stewardship. We nurture environments where learners cultivate responsibility for themselves, their communities, and living ecologies.
Reflected in small daily rituals, restorative discipline, and environments built to outlive short-term funding cycles.
A lens focused toward multi-generational arcs rather than policy cycles.
True educational transformation requires thinking across centuries, not legislative sessions or election cycles. We ground our experiments in the deep time of human culture and civilizational resilience.
Practiced through 10,000-year curriculum mapping and intergenerational design juries.
Engaging in diverse dialogue and collective care across all difference.
Learning happens in relational spaces where every voice holds dignity. We reject top-down standardization in favor of grassroots wisdom and shared collective sovereignty.
Embodied in community circles, participatory governance, and cross-sector convening labs.
Hope, agency, and creative energy in response to complex challenges.
Facing uncertain futures requires bold imagination, not cynicism or despair. We cultivate joy, creative bravery, and radical faith in humanity's potential to shape thriving futures.
Realized in active prototyping, celebratory showcases, and youth-led vision laboratories.