Becoming Us: Creating Human Futures in a World Coming Apart at the Seams

Harvard HGSE

This is an optimistic course about a pessimistic state of affairs. There is no denying it – something feels fundamentally broken about our world. Across education, work, politics, technology, health, and community life, many of the systems that organize human society feel increasingly strained: inequality is widening, racism is persisting, institutions are losing trust, consumer capitalism rewards extraction over care, bureaucratic systems center the measurable over the meaningful, and…