Culture, Intelligence and Human Continuity

HORIZON FOUNDATIONAL DIALOGUE SERIES

A global editorial dialogue exploring whether culture should once again become the organising foundation of society.

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Why Horizon?

“The challenge of our time is not technological change. It is whether our cultural institutions can guide it.”

Horizon asks a central question: what happens when culture is treated not as decoration, but as infrastructure?

At a time of accelerating technology, weakening trust, and social fragmentation, Horizon examines how culture shapes values, knowledge, judgement, belonging, and the futures societies are willing to build.

Through its Foundational Dialogue Series, episode papers, and the forthcoming Horizon Settlement Report 2026, Horizon creates a serious public language for rethinking culture as a governing layer for education, technology, policy, and human continuity.

Michael Frugtniet, HORIZON Secretariat and Moderator

D. Paul Schafer

Dr. Diane Dodd

Dr. Thomas Legrand

Dr. Mira Sartika

Prof Nancy Duxbury

Peter Mousaferiadis

Dr. Jayfus Doswell

Mallika Auplish

Bonus episode with Susan Magsamen will be out at the end of June

Episodes

Research and Publications

HORIZON SETTLEMENT REPORT 2026