Henrietta L. Moore
Founder and Director, UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, Chair of Culture, Philosophy and Design, University College London
I am the Founder and Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity and Chair in Culture, Philosophy and Design at University College London (UCL). I am a social anthropologist and cultural theorist, actively challenging traditional economic models of growth. I argue that communities, businesses, and governments must engage collaboratively with local diversity and operate within environmental limits to flourish. I have led the creation and launch of the UCL Citizen Science Academy, a body through which academics are training and equipping members of the public to conduct community-based research that can guide policy making and drive social change. My recent work crosses topics such as new economic models and paradigms, Universal Basic Services, AI for social purpose, environmental sustainability and natural capital accounting.
EXPs by Henrietta L. Moore
When you think about prosperity, you have to ask yourself: what does it take to be doing well? And very often we don’t ask that question. Instead, we ask: what is good for the economy?
Who owns knowledge? I always think, as a social anthropologist, that it is wise to remember that there are definite limits to your expertise as an academic. Communities produce knowledge in many different ways. What we have to understand about the knowledge people have of their own lives is that they are the experts of their own lives.
Imagine that human societies had not changed from their earliest times up to the present day—how would we all be living now? The really important element of social change is: how can societies imagine themselves as changing.