What we do

We provide resources to anyone wanting to put our framework into practice. Based in positive psychology, we believe technology should enables us to exercise our most human strengths: care, inquisitiveness and self-control.

Through Applied Experiments we directly fund and guide practitioners building prototypes and interactive demonstrations that show this is possible. All the while we're expanding our ethos, in the hopes that eventually it forms a blueprint that anyone can apply to their own work.

In a sense, we aim to become an engine for humane technology.

Why We Exist

We are undergoing an explosion of technological possibility. From new devices and interfaces to new narratives and environments, the technologies we interact with are transforming our psychological experiences and our engagement with the world.

But where is this innovation taking us? Possibility without intention is just chaos. 

As these technologies increasingly shape our mental and emotional states, we must step back and think about what we really want from them.  

What psychological goals should they aspire to? What values, technical characteristics, and aesthetic qualities support these goals? 

These foundational questions about the purpose of technology demand a broader perspective. That’s why we are bringing creative minds, innovators and psychological researchers together to answer them.

Where We Are Heading

We aim to assemble a new ethos for technology, rooted in psychological and aesthetic principles that support human flourishing. 

We hope this new ethos can provide a sense of intention and direction—so that we can communicate and collaborate across disciplines, channeling our creativity and innovation to serve the public good.

Eventually, as we define new frameworks and objectives to guide us, we will evolve into a blueprint, empowering anyone to co-opt, adapt and apply our ethos to their own work — making technology flourish through applied projects, prototypes, and commissions that contribute to human fulfillment in experimental ways.

Whether our funding and guidance in projects will continue to be needed, and what model that should take on, is an open question we're exploring along the way.

What Guides Us

The forward path of technology does not have to be determined for us. Nor do we have to reject technology altogether.

APOSSIBLE envisions a middle path, where our relationship with technology is balanced, where we are stewards of it rather than passive consumers, where it is a source of creativity, beauty, meaning, and joy in our lives.

We are committed to discovering and defining this middle path, so that together we can move toward a future where our technology nourishes and uplifts the human spirit. 

We hope you will join us on our journey.