Participants from around the world gathered in May 2016 on Svalbard to discuss and reflect on some of the most difficult questions our planet faces today - how can we address a world beset by systemic crises; why should we not trust existing systems and institutions; what steps might we take as an interdependent human community?
This is the first meeting of the Aurora Borealis Foundation that will take place in Longyearbyen on Svalbard (home of the Global Seed Vault), on May 11-14 2016. The program for the gathering on Svalbard was filled with both intellectual and cultural inputs of the highest standards.
Svalbard was chosen as the venue as there is no indigenous culture in this northernmost settlement of the planet, and that it formed a perfect backdrop for this high-impact gathering built on a spectacular meeting of minds and nature.