Since 1919, The New School has been home to scholars, creators, and activists who challenge convention and boldly make their mark on the world. To celebrate this groundbreaking legacy, we are opening our doors to the public for a weeklong festival of innovative performances, talks, workshops, screenings, exhibitions, and more.
On October 1–6, 2019, join us as we reflect on a century of world-changing ideas and together imagine a new kind of future.
We are living in a time of extreme inequality of income, wealth, and opportunity, much as the U.S. was experiencing a century ago during the first Gilded Age.
The concentration of wealth has reached a pinnacle, with three billionaires owning as much wealth as the bottom half of US households combined. The racial wealth divide is growing, with the median white household holding 41 times the wealth of the median black household. These grotesque inequalities undermine every aspect of our lives, including our physical health, environment, social connectedness, democracy, civic life, and economic health and vibrancy.
What will it take to reverse engineer these trends to build a more radically equal and regenerative society? How do we decolonize our concept of wealth –and disrupt the societal stories and narratives of deservedness that justify and perpetuate these inequalities? What is a vision of a radically more equitable society look like? What are the pathways forward?
