FOR OUR TIME
NEW WORKS
Writers with ideas that change how we work and live
Started in 2021, New Works showcases intersectional thinking and practices that meet the complexity of our current time. Each series brings together visionary writers whose recently published work uniquely illuminates the status quo and identifies possibilities for other ways forward.
Our departments work year around to review hundreds of books and films. We select the themes and curate the writers who can interrupt stuck narratives, dismantle that which no longer works, and open new spaces of transition. Each session is designed by our departments working together with featured writers to spark curiosity, generate insights, and build capacities and stamina. Over two series, we’ve connected over 1,000 changemakers from around the globe.
Still from Playtime (1967), Jacques Tati
Announcing New Works 3:
Organizational Mazes
Starting August 2025
Organizations shape our lives in ways that run deeper than we often recognize. They affect who we become, what we believe is possible, and how we see ourselves. The workplace structures we navigate—thickets, labyrinths, leviathans—aren't just inconvenient bureaucracy. They're emotional, cultural, existential forces. What can we learn by interrogating the structures and logics of organizational life? Might we interrupt our own patterns of legitimization that thwart our autonomy and narrow our visions? What will it take to remake organizations for right social and ecological relations? How might we constitute alternative futures from within the organizational lives we live?
New Works Organizational Mazes is about the push and pull of organizational life that shapes not just what’s possible in our workplaces—but who we become in the process.
We invite you to join us with brilliant writers and practitioners who can help you break free from organizational autopilot. You’ll have the opportunity to deeply explore the author’s ideas with them followed by hands-on workshops where you'll practice new approaches. Through collective learning and trying on new behaviours, we will test boundaries, reclaim agency, and build the muscle for actualization of ourselves and transformation of our organizations. This is your invitation to move beyond managing the organizational maze and start redesigning it.
Announcing New Works 3:
Organizational Mazes
Starting August 2025
Still from Playtime (1967), Jacques Tati
Organizations shape our lives in ways that run deeper than we often recognize. They affect who we become, what we believe is possible, and how we see ourselves. The workplace structures we navigate—thickets, labyrinths, leviathans—aren't just inconvenient bureaucracy. They're emotional, cultural, existential forces. What can we learn by interrogating the structures and logics of organizational life? Might we interrupt our own patterns of legitimization that thwart our autonomy and narrow our visions? What will it take to remake organizations for right social and ecological relations? How might we constitute alternative futures from within the organizational lives we live?
New Works Organizational Mazes is about the push and pull of organizational life that shapes not just what’s possible in our workplaces—but who we become in the process.
We invite you to join us with brilliant writers and practitioners who can help you break free from organizational autopilot. You’ll have the opportunity to deeply explore the author’s ideas with them followed by hands-on workshops where you'll practice new approaches. Through collective learning and trying on new behaviours, we will test boundaries, reclaim agency, and build the muscle for actualization of ourselves and transformation of our organizations. This is your invitation to move beyond managing the organizational maze and start redesigning it.
How the Series Works
🌀 Each month we will host two sessions around the work of a single writer. The first session will be with the author present to share their ideas, inspirations, and aspirations. This will primarily have a dialogic orientation to think about our thinking. Attendees will have the chance to engage with the writer and each other. The second session will be a space to practice new ways of being and knowing inspired by the writer.
📚 While it is not required, we encourage attendees to engage directly with the actual writing. We are currently working with publishers to try and offer bundles.
🤝 The Solvable team remains committed to making New Works financially accessible so anyone can attend regardless of access to wealth. Each session is $5. Your enrolment fees go directly to writers’ honoraria.
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WHY REGENERATION?
Occasionally, a concept with massive socio-cultural significance emerges whose future is not yet cast. We’re in a transitionary moment between systems with a growing recognition of the imperative to change the direction of social and planetary travel. As we let go of sustainability as an insufficient paradigm shift for our flourishing planetary future, Regeneration offers the promise of life-giving rather than life-sustaining ways to inhabit the planet.
WATCH THE RECORDINGS ⪢
READ our thoughts on regeneration ⪢
Rebecca Henderson on Regenerative Leadership
Join Solvable & Magnolia Moonshot 2030 for a conversation with Rebecca Henderson on Regenerative Leadership in the context of her book, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire. Can leaders reimagine and implement a capitalism that regenerates living systems and supports democratic institutions while being an engine for the prosperity of all?
Arturo Escobar on Regenerative Design
Join Solvable and The RSA for a conversation with Arturo Escobar on the changing social role of design to navigate regenerative futures rather than further exacerbate intensive resource use and vast material destruction at the core of degenerative economies. His work and context are uniquely situated within the history of decolonial efforts of Latin American Indigenous peoples that recognize a plurality of responses suitable to the very localized contexts in which they emerge.
Nicole Masters on Regenerative Agriculture
Join Solvable & the Social Gastronomy Movement for a conversation with Nicole Masters on Regenerative Agriculture. Together we’ll explore the answers that lie in the soil through the practical applications of projects around the world by farmers, ranchers, and growers.
Dominique Hes on Regenerative Cities
Join Solvable for a conversation with Dominique Hes to explore cities as living systems and as possibility spaces for regenerating net gains to ecological and social health through their designs. Hes continues to be an important critic in asking why after decades of so-called advancement, sustainable development continues to underperform.
John Fullerton on Regenerative ECONOMICS
Join Solvable & nRhythm for a conversation with John Fullerton to discuss how a living systems approach can restructure how we see, think, and practice economics and finance. What are the alternatives to perpetual growth that expand the possibilities of long-term prosperity for all life? What needs to be done to shift our financial systems from degeneration and extraction to the principles of regenerative economics?
Andri Snær Magnason & MELANIE GOODCHILD on Regenerative Cultures
Join Solvable & Turtle Island Institute for a conversation with Andri Snær Magnason on Regenerative Cultures. We'll share stories from Anishinaabe and Icelandic peoples as we look backwards into future cultures.
Bill Baue on Regenerative REPORTING
Join Solvable and Anthesis for a conversation with Bill Baue on Regenerative Reporting. While reporting is typically understood within the context of finance or marketing, Baue seeks to expand the possibility space in defining what the next era of reporting can be. How can reporting transition companies, governments, and communities to a multicapitals approach to regeneration? Who are the rightsholders to multicapitals and how are they integrated into reporting? How might reporting quantify true social and ecological impact within a planetary, not just organization-specific context?
Tyson Yunkaporta on Regenerative Futures
Join Solvable & New Stories for a conversation with Dr. Yunkaporta on how our perspectives of and relationships to time affect our capacities to be custodians of a regenerative future. How do different cultural conceptions of time impact behaviours and futures? How are concepts of time interrelated with models of stewardship? What could a regenerative depth of field about time shift in our cultural condition? How is the capacity to imagine regenerative futures connected to equity & power?
Steve Kempster on Leadership for what?
Join us for a conversation with esteemed professor, researcher, and writer Steve Kempster to discuss his recently published anthology, Good Dividends: Responsible Leadership of Business Purpose.
Peter Newell on the Business of Climate Transition
Join us for a conversation with esteemed professor, researcher, and writer Peter Newell to discuss his recently published article, “The business of rapid transition.”
Leslie Davenport on Emotional Climate Resilience
Join us for a conversation with integrative psychotherapist, climate psychology educator, and writer Leslie Davenport to discuss building resilience and creativity by addressing our emotions around climate change.
Julia Kim on Well-being & Gross national happiness
Join us for a conversation with global health practitioner and sustainable development specialist Julia Kim to discuss what a consciousness shift combined with systems change could do to advance companies, economies, and society.
Sophie Rifkin & the Return on Sustainable Investment
Join us for a conversation with seasoned sustainability professional, researcher, and educator Sophie Rifkin to discuss methodologies that bridge the gap between sustainability strategy and financial performance.
Andrew Hoffman on Sustainability Leadership
Join us for a conversation with esteemed professor, researcher, and writer Andrew Hoffman to discuss his recently published book, Management as a Calling.
New Works REGENERATION Co-hosts
New Works 1
spring 2021
Over the course of six conversations, we gathered with over 300 sustainability professionals from around the world holding three intentions: 1) strengthen connections 2) shift perspectives and 3) champion important works of others.
