Empirics of Hope Workshop

Key Takeaways

• There is an unexplored potential in studying hope to navigate living in the Anthropocene, a world where humans are impacting the planet on multiple scales and magnitudes.
• There is a need for a transdisciplinary science of hope to leverage mobilisations and actions towards more just and sustainable future
• Gathering, documenting, and analysing the empirical evidence of such mobilisations and actions could play an important role to leverage hope as a driver of actions
• Such scientific work needs to be accompanied by a careful examination of the object of hope, to whom the hope is intended and distributed, and how signs of hope might be observed.