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3 - UKAI Projects
4tags:
5 - organization
6 - nonprofit
7 - Canada
8 - Toronto
9link: https://ukaiprojects.com/
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11UKAI Projects is a federally incorporated non-profit cultural organization based in Canada and operating globally.
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13Our mission is “culture for what’s coming”.
14## About
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16From the [About page](https://ukaiprojects.com/pages/about)
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18Although often invisible, culture shapes the ways in which we perceive and interact with the world around us. Culture includes:
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20- beliefs and values
21- customs
22- symbols and language
23- objects and spaces
24- institutions
25- art and literature
26- technology and tools
27- rituals
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29<mark>…we seek and test out approaches to culture that make sense of the world we are creating and handing down to future generations.</mark>
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31We call this work <mark>cultural research and development, and just like R&D in other fields, we are trying to make things better. In our case, we are trying to build resilience to massive volatility and change.</mark>
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33Different groups will insist that they hold special, privileged knowledge of what these changes mean. Social media encourages us to take sides. But we shouldn't confuse these maps with the terrain.
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35As human beings we can't help but make meaning out of the experiences of our lives. We can allow for pre-existing ideologies to do the work of telling us what’s going on. Or we can do the work ourselves of assembling from events some coherent picture, and then become answerable for what happens next.
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37Life is simpler when there are two or three stories to choose from. However, there are infinite stories we might tell, as varied as we are.
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39The risk is letting things get rigid and this rigidity is what we are responding to.
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41## Events
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43Creator listing [on Eventbrite](https://www.eventbrite.ca/o/ukai-projects-26425493607)