About this Platform

Hello, I'm Hardeep - founder and steward, of this platform - thank you for stopping by.

I am founder of per se, a design studio and creative practice dedicated to weaving new stories that will bridge us into a flourishing 22nd century.

The Age of the Steward emerged from conversations I was having on my podcast, The Architecture of Contemplation, where, with fellow thinkers, I contemplate the human experience. Stewardship as a concept was new to me, but intuitively felt like a very approachable and pragmatic framing of how to be a proactive, responsible and considerate Earthling.

Fast forward two years, and the time felt right to bring the Age of the Steward to life as a movement, a social moonshot, and a gathering place for fellow big-picture thinkers and now-doers, to come together. We have a planet of eight billion humans who contain genuine multitudes, yet because of the vagaries of birth, geography, war, corruption, limited resources or sheer lack of an idea where to (re)start, individual, and collective thriving, is unevenly distributed.

Age of the Steward is the more hopeful sibling to the narrative around the Anthropocene (I am a story-teller, first). We *can* choose a different epochal framing, and within this, there will be plural ways to create, collaborate and learn.

Is this a big vision? Maybe. Idealistic? A touch. Hopeful? Utterly.

I am always on the lookout for collaborators and support, so if you too are driven to take on wildly wicked problems, and to find ambitious solutions, write me at hardeep@perse.london.

Always,

Steward-in-Training

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