We are delighted to share The Fifth Element’s 2025 activity report. The Fifth Element’s work is “rooted in a simple but urgent conviction: that bridging the human gap between our capacity to act and our ability to understand the consequences of that action is the defining challenge of our time.” The report covers last year’s key developments and learnings across The Fifth Element’s threads of work.
We are excited to share the second paper of The Fifth Element’s discussion paper series: 'The unitive science of a living universe' by Jude Currivan, associate member of the Club of Rome and co-founder of WholeWorld-View.
This chapter by Franz Krause offers a fascinating look at Aklavik, a hamlet of approximately 600 inhabitants in the Mackenzie River Delta. It explores how the collision of Western "river literacy" and the volatile Arctic environment creates a state of liquescence, both physical and social. This chapter explores key concepts and provides pertinent observations on: The People and the Place; "River Literacy" vs. Delta Reality; The Evolution of Infrastructure; Liquescence vs. Liquefaction; The 2006 Flood and Infrastructure Failure; and Socio-Political Shifting Ground.
"How to Get Things Done" is a toolkit designed to empower young people everywhere to transform the world around them. A collaborative effort between Responsible Project Management and The 50 Percent, this resource serves as a companion to the Young person’s guide to systems change.
We invite you to read the Outcome Report of the ‘Learning for Planetary Citizenship and Anticipatory Governance’ UNESCO Futures Literacy Lab: Reworlding Planetary Governance: YOUTH CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UN DECLARATION ON FUTURE GENERATIONS. The goal was not to predict what may come next, but to practice different ways of seeing, sensing, conceptualizing, and shaping what might be possible by imagining and developing plausible scenarios for the future. What if the very act of learning could be planetary? What if a university could be a place not only of knowledge, but of responsibility, reciprocity, and regeneration? And what if governance made space for those who have never been allowed to speak—rivers, trees, future generations, and the systemically unheard?
