Iris Institute

RESEARCH

Iris Institute research is dedicated to exploring the nature of human experience through qualitative and phenomenological approaches.

THE ARCHITECTURE OF SPACE

This research has included geometric dynamics and the psychophysiological effects of the architecture of space.

THE ARCHITECTURE OF SPACE: RESEARCH

PARTICIPATORY LAB

A Lab held in Berkeley, CA. in 2008 explored organizational system dynamics based on participatory, egalitarian, transparent, consensual, communicative, cooperative, community, evolutionary, and sustainable processes inspired by the reciprocity of exchange, engaged economics, and the spirit of giving.

Participants spent a day on the imaginative edge exploring the dynamics of creative, innovative, visionary, and sustainable approaches to organizational processes to see what was possible in practical terms, asking the question: What would a world of sustainable organizational systems that naturally self-organized around what individuals loved to do be like?

PHENOMENOLOGY AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY

Karl Kracklauer, PhD. explored the parapsychological experience of a gifted intuitive during a year-long, privileged-subject phenomenological study.