Ecological/Planetary Futures
What are the Networks and Subsystems (both Visible & Invisible) that comprise the world we inhabit?
What is a planetary Consciousness?
Sustainability- yes; but for whom? and how?
Urban+Rural Futures
What is an Urban Complex System? What are the networks and flows that constitute this?
What is the Interface between the urban and the rural?
What Devices and Applications can be designed for Rural Development, especially for their empowerment?
What Knowledge can we gain from the volumes of data received from Urban Sensing?
If sensing or awareness is Step One, along the evolution of a collective consciousness, what are the subsequent stages?
What kinds of Systemic Intervention Strategies are apt for today's highly complex urban context, with minimal disruptions and negative side-effects?
Personal Wellness/Wellbeing
What personal Data is needed to stay aware and healthy? In what forms can this be presented to end-users?
What kinds of new personal Devices and Applications can help us towards our wellbeing?
How can Public Health viz Epidemiology benefit from ubiquitous, networked devices?
Biological Systems
If the current mode of biological investigation is seen as reliant on the methods of Reductionism and Isolation, what new methods can we devise, from a Systemic perspective?
How does the Micro/biological relate to the Macro/ecological? How can this be visualized?
Is there a level of interchange between Bytes and Cells? What exists, or can exist, at this interface?