Sovereignty
Each person’s sovereignty is protected: in how they think, relate and live in their body.
An institute for human and civilisational development
Vision
We envision a world built for the flourishing of every sentient being.
A world that develops its technology and its humanity together, in service of life — where the flourishing of each is woven into the flourishing of all.
FOUR PRINCIPLES
Agency & accountability
Held together, not traded off. The condition under which trust between people and institutions becomes possible.
Eudaimonic design
A life going well as a whole, for everyone affected. The guide to everything we build: diverse ways of flourishing, protected rights, fairly shared benefits, respect for the living world.
Mutual development
People, relationships and institutions grow together: in intimacy and vulnerability, through whole-person formation.
Mission
We love this world too much to watch it lose its hard-won humanity.
So we are building a home for people who want to help shape the emerging world: a place that doesn’t ask you to pretend, where we study how civilisation can be reimagined, grow whole together, and hold power to account.
We research and test approaches to civilisational design from first principles, honouring inherited wisdom, holding our ideas to evidence and practice, and contributing instruments and methods others can use.
We publish our thinking openly and convene the people and organisations, in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond, who want to work on it together.
We develop programmes in which people cultivate agency and sovereignty in how they think, relate and live in their bodies, learning with and from one another — because a civilisation is only as healthy as the relationships it is made of, with one another and with the land.
We carry the work into public life through advocacy and art, pressing for institutions and technologies that respect human sovereignty and answer for the power they hold, and for a material floor that lets people live with dignity whatever their value on the job market.
We intend to embody what we propose: first in how we govern and sustain this institute, and, as trust and resources grow, in places and communities that prototype such a world.
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The people
A civilisation is only as healthy as the relationships it is made of.
Between us we hold: formation, technology and institutions.
Victor Jivanescu
Co-founder, President & Director of Human Development
Holds direction, partnerships and the formation offer — the programmes through which people actually develop, and the institution that keeps them running.
Dr. Andrei Nutas
Co-Founder and Director of Research and Technology
PhD in AI ethics and a decade in AI assurance, including verification work for the German armed forces. He leads Entangled Civilisation’s research and its work with the people who build AI.
Ramona Todor
Co-Founder and Director of Embodiment and Relational Formation
MA in Applied Philosophy, 600-hour trauma-informed training in somatic relational work, and organiser of retreats and festivals on embodiment and intimacy. Relational formation lead.
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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM THE FIELD
Changing how we live takes four capacities. Almost no one holds all four.
Across Europe and beyond, many organisations are already working on how we live together: retreat centres that develop people, think tanks that redesign institutions, research groups that test what works, media and movements that reach millions. Before relaunching, we mapped them. The same pattern kept appearing.
Most organisations today
Formation
developing people
Architecture
changing institutions
Traction
reaching the public
Method
testing what works
Strong in one or two. Human development rarely reaches institutions; institution-changers rarely develop people; much of both goes untested, and most of it never reaches the public.
What the work needs
Formation
developing people
Architecture
changing institutions
Traction
reaching the public
Method
testing what works
All four, feeding each other: people formed well enough to change institutions, institutions that make room for people to grow, methods that tell both what is working, and enough reach that it matters beyond any specific bubble.
Holding all four together is Entangled Civilisation’s working hypothesis, and the reason we have five fields of work rather than one. We offer it for testing and correction: we are not yet strong in all four ourselves, and we will measure ourselves against it each year and say where we fall short. The full analysis publishes with the white paper towards the end of the year.
Who the programmes serve
Those seeking their own development, and those building what the rest of us will live inside.
People seeking their own development
Cultivating agency and sovereignty in how you think, relate and live in your body — alongside others doing the same.
People building AI, technology and infrastructure
For those whose designs become the conditions the rest of us live within. Judgment, relational capacity and ethical maturity, developed as seriously as technical skill.
Kept accessible
Subsidised places, paired cohorts and funded participation, so that cost decides less about who takes part.
Events
Where the work gathers.
Talks, convenings and programmes, in Romania and online.
The Quest - Porcelain Pillows
In his evocative new series "The Quest", artist Ioannis Stathoyiannis presents a stunning collection of delicate posthuman porcelain pillows.
Galeria 5
16th Beyond Humanism Conference
16th Beyond Humanism Conference AI, Education, and Multispecies Sustainability: A Dialogue Across Humanism, Transhumanism, and Critical Posthumanism
Institute for Advanced Environmental Research
The End Of Medicine As We Know It
What survives when the algorithm out-diagnoses the physician, and aging itself becomes an engineering problem? Over one week, students and faculty meet in Timișoara to figure it out.
Institute For Advanced Environmental Research
“We intend to embody what we propose.”
First in how we govern and sustain this institute. Then, as trust and resources grow, in places and communities that prototype such a world - from our manifesto, October 2026. Read the manifesto →
Join the work
Here is somewhere to stand. Come stand with us.
Researchers, practitioners, builders, artists, funders and institutions — in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond — who want to work on this together. Tell us who you are; we read everything.