THE MAKE HUMAN PROJECT
Creative orientation for the age of optimization
Right now, the definition of human creativity is under renegotiation. Technological forces, unstable markets, systems built to optimize and automate life are making their case. In that kind of world, creativity is another word for output, content, productivity.
The Make Human Project exists to stake another claim, and support culture workers who are doing the same.
Rather than simply debating technology or nostalgia, we’re here for orientation: what kind of intelligence we trust, and what kind of life we build around it. We do the spiritual and existential work that supports a life we can all be human in.
Who it’s for
The Make Human Project is for culture-makers.
This includes, but isn’t limited to, writers, artists, founders, educators, organizers, and thinkers who know that their work has some intervention to make in the culture as it shifts before our eyes.
You may already be leading in some way, or you might feel a persistent pull toward the work that is yours to do. Either way, you know that following it requires trust in a creative intelligence deeper than strategy.
What we do
At the Make Human Project, we honor the signals of wisdom that systems of optimization tend to flatten or automate. We treat them as sources of intelligence.
Friction.
Resistance.
Strange ideas.
The thing you care about more than seems reasonable.
Through conversations, gatherings, and immersive spaces of work, we help people learn to read those signals and work with them so they can trust their aliveness enough to lead creatively in this moment.
We cultivate and amplify creative leaders: people willing to stay present to what is emerging and shape culture from there.