The Human Future:
Living Well for
100 Years.
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Societies built around Purpose,
Connection and Resilience.
#TheHumanFuture
The Human Future is Lifework Lab’s commissioned lecture and workshop series - a strategic investment for organisations seeking to build thriving, purpose-driven, future-ready communities.
Designed for universities, local authorities, employers, and social sector organisations, the series brings bold, evidence-based frameworks for enabling human flourishing across a 100-year life.
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Delivery:
- Lecture or Workshop
- Modular or full series
- Online or in-person.
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L1: "The End of Retirement, The Rise of Lifework"
- How a 60-year career demands a new mindset for work, learning and purpose.
- Introducing the ADOPTs model to map personalised lifework journeys.
- Why economic purpose is vital for societal resilience and wellbeing.
L2: "Commonality: The Unseen Superpower"
- Breaking generational and cultural stereotypes through In Common research.
- How designing for shared purpose unlocks trust, innovation and belonging.
- How The Common Room operationalises community-driven social cohesion.
L3: "The New Social Contract: A Blueprint for Human Communities"
- How disconnection fractured our social fabric - and how we rebuild.
- Using Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) to transfer ownership.
- The role of human-first technology in sustaining connection and trust.
L4: "Human Connection: The Future of Societal Wealth"
- Why networked leadership will replace top-down models.
- How interdependence fuels resilience, innovation and collective wellbeing.
- Practical participatory models for embedding trust-based collaboration.
Twelve years of pioneering research into purpose, connection and lifelong contribution.
Our work at Lifework Lab is grounded in a decade-plus of original, human-centred research and socioeconomic innovation, including:
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The Age of No Retirement (2014)
Pioneering an ageless society framework.
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Xtra10 (2015)
Prototyping economic value from extended healthy life expectancy.
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In Common (2016)
Ground-breaking study dismantling generational stereotypes.
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Intergenerational Design Principles (2017)
Shaping the next era of inclusive design.
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Economic Purpose (2018)
Defining new drivers of human flourishing.
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The Common Room (2019)
Redefining community hubs for the 21st century.
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ADOPT™ Framework (2020)
Personalised mapping of purposeful life journeys.
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The Purpose Xchange (2022)
Building interdependent, purpose-driven online communities.
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A New Social Contract (2024)
A practical blueprint for rebuilding human connection, trust and collective agency across communities, organisations and public systems.