Iris Institute

RESEARCH

Qualitative research exploring the nature of human experience.

This Iris Institute Publication covers studies done by Mali Burgess, PhD. on the psychophysiological effects of the architecture of space, including one at the Center For the Improvement of Human Functioning in Wichita.

PARTICIPATORY LAB

A Lab held in Berkeley, CA. in 2008 that 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

A year long privileged-subject phenomenological exploration of parapsychological experience by Karl Kracklauer, PhD.