Collaborations, Projects, Affiliations and
Friends of SoDy
Current Collaborations & Projects
The Repatterning Collective
Exciting talks are underway with the Repatterning Collective about how we can join forces on a project…More to come soon!
This Euro - African collaboration is dedicated to addressing pressing global issues and their interconnected consequences, and aims to explore our biggest current challenges such as escalating economic and social disparities, environmental degradation, and the overarching climate crisis. SoDy's own Dr. Rachel Ainsworth is part of the team working on the important project, Confronting the Polycrisis in Europe and Africa through Research, Policy and Education, over the next few years, so expect to see more updates about her work from us soon!
Partnerships & Affiliations
Seshat: Global History Databank
The Seshat team systematically collects what is currently known about the social and political organization of human societies and how civilizations have evolved over time. This massive collection of historical information allows us and others to rigorously test different hypotheses about the rise and fall of large-scale societies across the globe and human history.
Several of our SoDy team - Dan Hoyer, Rachel Ainsworth, Jim Bennett and Samantha Holder - are part of the Seshat team and have worked on several major projects, analyses and publications since its founding in 2011.
Accelerator for Systems Risk Assessment
ASRA is a unique initiative catalyzing the development of practical tools decision-makers need to effectively cope with and navigate polycrisis, and is home to a global network of risk thinkers and doers - including SoDy’s Dan Hoyer, Florian Jehn and Rachel Ainsworth - who are radically rethinking risk in order to improve policy and decision-making to the benefit of nature and humanity.
Social AI Research Group
Our Founder & Director, Dr. Dan Hoyer, isn't just a “surprisingly upbeat collapseologist" who spends his time thinking about polycrises; he's also at the cutting-edge of a project to develop AI-integrated computational models to study human social behaviour using approaches from neuroscience, psychology, sociology, history, and cultural anthropology. This brings theoretical and empirical insights from across the social sciences to explore critical questions surrounding social cognition, perception and behaviour, and will allow us to understand the past better while boosting our ability to navigate the pressing challenges facing us in the future.
Dan Hoyer and Jim Bennett are Associate Faculty at the CSH in Vienna, which undertakes independent scientific research which embraces a pioneering approach: not only do they advance complexity science, but they apply it to problems that matter now. Within a network of top scientists, practitioners, and policymakers the CSH and its wider team seek to understand the challenges and risks confronting diverse facets of our society.
