Walk & Talk
IMCE combines research, systems thinking, educational design & real-world feedback to better understand the changing conditions of human development, and turn that understanding into practical educational responses.
Strategic Focus
Our work is organised around four strategic priorities, translating research and systems thinking into practical tools, education, public understanding & institutional change. Each develops through feedback, evidence and real-world application.
This means practical tools, pilot programmes, public education, research, and institutional engagement, all designed to evolve through feedback, evidence, and lived application. Our aim is not simply to produce intellectually sound ideas, but effective responses that can be tested, improved, and carried into the lives of the people they are intended to serve.
Develop 'Experience Studies'
Develop Experience Studies as an educational field through research, frameworks, teaching approaches, workshops & practical resources that strengthen awareness, discernment, resilience & agency.
Tracking Emerging Pressures
Identify, map & explain emerging psychological, educational and cultural pressures, from attention capture & cognitive outsourcing to synthetic influence, authority and relationships.
Increasing Public Understanding
Build public understanding of Experience Studies, Metacognitive Education and the changing conditions shaping human development through publications, research, talks, media, campaigns & open resources.
Education Policy & Advocacy
Work with policymakers, educators, curriculum specialists & other stakeholders to make the case for Experience Studies within contemporary education, with the long-term goal of building inner digital resilience for a generation.
Principles
Our approach reflects the interconnected nature of human development: practical, interdisciplinary & grounded in lived experience.
OUR WORK IS GUIDED BY THREE CORE PRINCIPLES
1. Human-Centred Design
We begin with the realities of experience rather than the capabilities of technology. Our work is designed to strengthen human capacities including awareness, discernment, resilience, agency, relationship & meaning.
2. Research Through Practice
We believe meaningful educational innovation emerges through practice. Ideas are translated into frameworks, tested in real educational settings, observed, evaluated, and continually refined through experience and evidence.
3. Open Collaboration
We actively seek collaboration across education, psychology, philosophy, technology, design, and the wider research community, recognising that meaningful progress emerges through shared knowledge and diverse perspectives.
Humane Technology
Technology increasingly shapes how we think, relate, learn, and develop. As intelligent systems become ever more woven into everyday life, it is increasingly important that they are designed to support human wellbeing rather than simply maximise engagement, influence behaviour, or optimise commercial outcomes as they currently are.
An aligned technological future requires greater transparency, healthier incentives, and digital environments that respect attention, agency, and psychological development. Lasting change requires both educational approaches that strengthen awareness and agency, and technologies designed to respect and support human development.
IMCE supports the growing movement for more humane technology and encourages readers to explore the excellent work of the Centre for Humane Technology, whose research and advocacy have helped bring these issues to wider public attention.
