Our latest Humanitas Technica white paper examines Environment and Place: how technology shapes the worlds we inhabit, and how technological design might instead contribute to environments ordered toward human flourishing.

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The question, then, is not simply whether a technology allows us to accomplish a specific goal. Rather, we need to identify the patterns created by its incorporation—and whether those patterns befit a genuinely human place.
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Whether looking at a computer screen, driving down a road, glancing through a window, losing oneself in a smartphone—each changes not only what surrounds us, but what we think easy or difficult, what attracts or loses our attention, how we tend to behave, and how we relate to one another.
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A technology may work perfectly—and nevertheless malform the persons for whom it is supposed to work.

Read Poiesis as the Rule of Techne:
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The first white paper in The Opportunities of Technology argues that techne must remain governed by poiesis: by the habitual vision which discloses a meaningful whole within which human action, language, and dwelling can retain their proper proportion.
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Read The Opportunities of Technology:
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Otherwise, technological success tends toward disproportion—improving one part of life while quietly deforming others.

The overview and accompanying white papers consider this principle through pattern, environment, communication, economy, education, memory, and time.
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The second Humanitas Technica seminar asks a harder question: under what conditions can technological extension actually contribute to human flourishing?

Its answer begins with a recovery of poiesis: technical making must remain subordinate to a vision of the whole.
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