Life on Spaceship Earth — Reimagining World-Making Through Natural Agentic Reasoning

​Should we rely on the technological progress of space travel to secure humanity’s future, or focus on redefining our relationship with the planet beneath us?

​With all due respect for our civilization’s moonshot ambitions, research indicates that Earth is unique within a radius of 10 billion light-years. In other words, this charming planet will need to sustain many future generations. To achieve this, it is high time to rebuild our partnership with nature instead of clinging to the illusion that we can retreat from it within our built environments—not only for our immediate well-being but for the future and the peace of life on Earth.

​Our partnership with this planet demands a shift in perspective: nature is not merely a passive resource to be exploited but an intelligent and dynamic system filled with agents. These agents take the form of molecules, cells, organisms, and ecosystems that shape and sustain life through purposeful interactions.

​Shifting from taking advantage of this world to collaboratively ‘making it‘ can be described through the concept of natural agentic reasoning. From peptides acting as molecular agents in healing processes to ecosystems demonstrating self-regulation, this lens offers profound insights into biology, sustainability, and our shared future on this extraordinary planet.

​We invite you to an evening dedicated to exploring our shared human future as collaborators with nature. Klaus will guide us in reimagining societal practices, business, and wealth creation. Together, we will explore how the intelligence inherent in the natural world can be harnessed to foster innovation, resilience, and long-term prosperity. Ultimately, we will examine how civilizational progress can flourish in concert with planetary systems.

​Our guest
We are honored to welcome the recipient of the UNESCO Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2024, renowned architect, landscape architect, and academic Klaus K. Loenhart, as our guest for the Creative Leadership Salon No. 16.

Klaus K. Loenhart imagines and designs the future of our planetary society as interwoven living biomes. As a professor and head of institute, he and his teams at the Institute for Architecture and Landscape at the TU Graz, as well as in his studio TERRAIN: INTEGRAL DESIGNS, based in Munich and Graz, develop living systems that bring us humans into direct relationship with our more-than-human living environment through design innovation.

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​Agenda
18:30 Opening Doors
19:15 Story by Klaus
19:30 Fishbowl Discussion
22:00 Closing Doors

Catering
We will keep our tradition and kindly ask you to bring a piece of cheese—we'll take care of the wine.

Creative Leadership Salon
Since 2017, the Creative Leadership Salon has hosted conversations on shaping society and entrepreneurship. We have discussed topics ranging from technology, social entrepreneurship, education, and science to non-profit work. For us, the appeal of creativity lies in discovering possibilities beyond apparent contradictions: a company, for example, can certainly be both activist and commercially viable. And we believe they should aim to. Binary logic reaches its limits when confronted with the questions of our time.
The Creative Leadership Salon thrives on conversation—there are no screens or stages, just a special guest who shares their story as a conversation starter. From there, we follow the flow of the evening, with gentle facilitation on our part.

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FAQ

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