Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems: The Catalytic Power of Radical Engagement

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20 may 2025 18:00 - 19:00

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Institut d'études avancées de Paris - Salle des Gardes
17 quai d'Anjou
75004 Paris

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information@paris-iea.fr

Gruia Bădescu, research fellow at Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, and 2024-2025 research-fellow at the Paris IAS (FIAS program) in conversation with Adam Kahane, director of the international organisation Reos Partners and fellow for a one-month writing residency at the Paris IAS in May 2025, to mark the publication of his book Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems: The Catalytic Power of Radical Engagement on the 8th of April 2025.

Onsite event, open to the public with registration (see form below).
In English only.

Presentation

How can you contribute to creating a better world? Adam Kahane, drawing on three decades working alongside leading changemakers, offers an answer: seven everyday habits for transforming systems. In conversation with Gruia Bădescu, researcher at the University of Konstanz and 2024-2025 research-fellow at the Paris IAS, Kahane will present his new book that, through vivid stories of profound change, shows how these practices enable ordinary people to achieve extraordinary impact.

"Radical engagement with a system doesn’t mean participating in that system distractedly, resigned, knowing it all, hierarchically, at arm’s length, with arms crossed, superficially, impatiently, saying take it or leave it. It means taking part in it alertly, with hope and curiosity, horizontally, leaning forward, hands-on, digging deep, persisting, and above all reciprocally and relationally."

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20 May 2025, 18:00 - 19:00

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Fellows

Gruia Bădescu, University of Konstanz, Germany (FIAS Program)

Research project

Urban imaginaries and political ruptures: Three aspiring Parises and their discontents

Dates of stay

01 September 2024 - 30 June 2025