Brandon Nørgaard
I am a researcher, technologist, and community organizer working at the intersection of civic development, emerging technology, and institutional innovation. My work explores how people and communities can develop the knowledge, capabilities, technologies, and institutions needed to create a more enlightened and flourishing society. I pursue this work through a diverse portfolio of research, collaborations, and projects, with the Civic Enlightenment Project (CEP) serving as a human- and community-focused hub for much of this work. My projects span civic intelligence, decentralized technology, and new approaches to social and institutional coordination.
Research and Development Work
» I serve on the operations team of Eudaimonia Institute, a nonprofit focused on human flourishing and societal transformation. Eudaimonia fiscally sponsors the Civic Enlightenment Project (CEP) and is developing the Metamodern Tech Initiative, which brings a metasystemic approach to the challenges and possibilities of emerging technology.
» I am a graduate student at the California Institute for Human Science studying wisdom design and I am conducting research through the Center for Applied Integrative Metatheory, which is one of the university’s research centers. The Civic Enlightenment Project is a part of my forthcoming master’s thesis and research.
» I am developing Civic Intelligence Infrastructure, a project under the fiscal sponsorship of Mediators Foundation. This is intended to provide technical support for Better Together America and its network of civic hubs.
» I am a team member at SynchroLabs, working on AI-driven multidimensional impact measurement and tools for understanding and strengthening collective intelligence.
» I am co-developing OpenHaven, a protocol navigator and taxonomy project mapping the ecosystem of decentralized, peer-to-peer, and prosocial technologies. One aspect of this is a proposed Sovereign Stack Model for web3.
» I co-authored a paper with Nicholas Hedlund, PhD and Claudia Meglin entitled Mapping an Ecology of Integrative Approaches to Addressing the Metacrisis, published by the Institute of Applied Metatheory. I also presented preliminary pre-publication research in a session of the web series The Stoa.
» I have assisted with organizational planning for some Liminal Web adjacent communities, including the ICON Future Human Conference and the Emerge Gathering. I have also researched the larger Liminal Web space and created a report on network mapping and automation.
» I am a member of Gregg Henriques’ Unified Theory of Knowledge Society. I presented at multiple UTOK Consilience Conferences: In ’23 on the topic of Enlightenment 2.0: Bridging the Gap Through the Convergence of Western and Eastern Enlightenment Traditions. In ’24 on Bildung and Enlightenment 2.0 at the Time of the Fifth Joint Point. In ’25, I took part in a panel discussion on UTOK Psycheology and presented on JII Mindfulness, which led to the co-authorship of a blog post on this topic with Marcia Gralha and Gregg Henriques.
» I have been involved with the Arch-Disciplinary Research Center. I presented at a salon hosted by this organization on Archdisciplinarity and the Meta-Crisis.
» I have appeared in episodes of podcast series including The Integral Stage (twice), Practical IntegralUTOKing with Gregg, This Journey, MetaView, Manifest Nirvana, and Meta-Ideological Politics.
» I contributed to the educational course Overflowing Purpose, which was created by Lee Mason and hosted by Integral Life.
» I also co-hosted a series of online salons hosted by Integral Life called Integral Sensemaking for Global and National Events.
Software Development Portfolio
» OpenHaven – a protocol navigator website I co-created
» Generalized Integrative Methodology – an informational website I created
» Dell OpenManage – a network management product I worked on for several years while with Dorado Software