The participation event for our sustainable human existence
If you are working on the sustainable future of humankind, you don´t want to miss this event.
For over 30 years I have developed Sustainocracy as a new evolutionary layer (layer 4) for our sustainable development as people, communities, cities, businesses and entire regions. This has been done in living lab environments with the involvement of governments, business entities, citizen initiatives, science and education. It became a co-creation movement with an upward, regenerative and participatory spiral. This warm engagement approach of mutual reinforcement through a meaningful and shared purpose is worth experiencing rather than reading about it. Only then it makes sense for application elsewhere in the world.
Cocreation: “When 1 plus 1 become much more than 2!”
We will take the city of Eindhoven in the Netherlands as our source of reference and inspiration. The city went through various development stages since receiving its cityrights in 1252. In the 1990´s it was nearly bankrupt, with over 1 million square meteres of empty factory spaces, nearly 60% unemployed and the most unsafe and unhealthy place of Northwest Europe. In 2011 it was named the most intelligent region of the world. But intelligence is not the same as smart or sustainably wise. That process was started with the introduction of Sustainocracy. Today it is attracting people from all over the world and has modern challenges in all four layers of regional development. But the fourth one, the cocreation one based on Sustainocracy, makes a difference.
And that difference is what we want you to experience during this unique event.
You will receive the book “Our Sustainable Human Existence” and a Certificate of Participation (bronce level).
Our Sustainable Existence publication
Mid October 2026 the publication anbout 30 years of research on developing our sustainable existence trhough Sustainocracy saw the light. It describes in chapters about awareness breakthroughs, living lab initiatives and the ups and downs lived in the process. Someone once said about sustainocracy: “It exists, now we want it too”.
Read a sample of the book here.
In May 2027 we organize a leadership Summit in Eindhoven during which you can experience Sustainocracy yourself. Keep an eye on this site for more information soon.
A healthy city
During Dutch Design Week 2026 in Eindhoven we designed an experience for people around our “Healthy City” approach. We did this through the spirit of Sustainocracy, purely based on cocreation, without the involvement of money. The sum of uniquely engaged talented people made the impossible possible, the invisible visible
Visitors are guided through a 3 step corridor with meaningful awareness triggers:
1. Self awareness as a unique, living human entity.
People enter a cublical. The message here is: “Inside this space you will find the most valuable in the rest of your life”. The people react in suprise when they find the cubical to be totally empty. But it is not empty. It indeed contains the most important. Which is the person him or herself.
The message here is that we tend to forget what we really are as we are forced into the behavior of a consuming, robotized puppet in a political financial performance system. We come to be inspired by information and external triggers. And the we are confronted with the minimalistic nothingness around is which brings us back into the only maximised issue that remains: a large heap of living molecules that represents our unique selves.
After that experience we look at reality in a different way. We let go of the forced influences of our surroundings and meet again with our emotional and spiritual self. We are now ready for the next step.
2. Reintegration with nature
We are now ready to understand that we ARE nature. That nature provides us with everything we are made of and that what we need to live and evolve. Instead of abusing nature out of immoral interests we need to work together symbiotically with nature directly for our sustainable existence.
3. Reintegration with each other
With these two wisdoms we come back together into the environment to cocreate our wellness and community spirit together as active, motivated, creative and caring chuman beings and citizens. Because together we make 1 plus 1 much more that 2.
