Creating Outlets for Humanity: A Vision for Education
By Gerard Senehi
I took this photo of reclaimed land on a trip to Singapore and it made me realize how fast we are headed into the future.
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ourney into this future is […]
Evolution and Culture
By Gerard Senehi
“Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.”
— Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man
The word evolution is popping up everywhere these days. We hear of businesses evolving, cars evolving, thinking evolving, […]
The Evolution of Agency
Why you might never look at babies…and aging in the same way
By Gerard Senehi
My wife and I went to visit dear friends and spent some time with their 8 months old son, Saqib. His curiosity for life and attentiveness to […]
The QUESTion Project: We Are Busy this Summer!
At Open Future Institute Headquarters, we have an international hive this Summer…from India to Egypt, to the Bronx….we are so happy to have with us 13 interns, in addition to our staff. Srikanth who is postgraduating at Pace University and […]
Questioning the Experience of Isolation
By Josh Mesnik
Student, Florida State University
From one perspective each of us has our own purpose as a part of a swirling sea of humanity. We hold a completely unique and necessary piece for the symphony of work, play, love and […]
Bronx Center of Science and Math: An Inspiring Story
We successfully concluded our first year at the Bronx Center of Science and Math this past June. We ran three daily elective classes, and the impact on the students, as we can see from our self-assessment data, has been beyond […]
Ellis Island Medal of Honor
Gerard Senehi, Founder of Open Future Institute, was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor last week.
NECO, the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations, sponsors the award, which is presented annually to American citizens who have distinguished themselves within their own ethnic […]
TEDx Talk: Why Big Questions Matter
Our Student Coordinator, Josh, just returned from giving a TED Talk at the TEDxFSU conference at Florida State University. In his talk he spoke about why big questions matter in education, and how his own explorations into big questions allowed him to develop […]
Welcome OFI Netherlands: Our Newest Chapter
We are thrilled to announce our first international chapter in the Netherlands! Led by our dear friends Florence Fabbricotti and Chris Hollanders with an Advisory Board of three (Susanne de Neeve, Bas de Jong and Niels Vierling), the Dutch office […]
The QUESTion Project Begins in the South Bronx, NYC
We have formed a wonderful partnership with the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics, a public school in the in the South Bronx, NY. This is a great school that has been selected as a model school for the Bronx […]