“It only seems impossible until it's done.”

— Nelson Mandela

The Unsolvable Project

We believe we are all ready to make the world a better place, but one obstacle may be that it is not apparent how to accomplish this.
The Unsolvable Project seeks to awaken and facilitate society’s innate problem-solving abilities for transforming the world’s most complex problems, one local community at a time.
The issues we address are: redundancy, overlap, competition for resources, burn-out, and fragmentation of efforts — we want to solve waste in philanthropic efforts.
By bringing diverse people together in an immersive, interactive and, each time, wholly unique experience, our objective is to help them ‘see’ in a new way, leading them to ‘doing’ in a new way, regarding their capacity to approach and resolve these persistent overwhelming problems.
The systemic-systematic approach to problem-solving in our society-lab is meant to give philanthropy tools to work smarter.

Inspiring a generation to take on the world’s problems with confidence and cooperation.

An immersive, one-of-a-kind art meets technology installation launching first in NYC, the epicenter of culture and innovation.

Experience a novel approach in thinking and a new way of participatory action to address society’s intractable problems.

R&D Systems Engineer, Professor & Author
Kevin received his PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich in computer simulation of semiconductor devices. He holds an MBA with areas of focus in entrepreneurship and business analytics from the University of Ottawa, Telfer School of Management as well as M.Sc. and Bachelor’s from Georgia Tech in Electrical Engineering.
Throughout his career he has worked as an R&D Engineer in software systems in the Financial and Semiconductor industries in Switzerland, Silicon Valley, and Ottawa, and currently works with real-time data and news feed systems at a major market news and data company in New York City. He also brings extensive experience in nonprofit management, both in the area of human systems and IT systems. Curiosity and research led him across 6 continents, and he coincidentally speaks 6 languages. He plays mainly progressive music and loves good art, kind people, and enjoys a good laugh. His research interests include approaches to large scale, complex human challenges at the confluence of government, industry, academia, and non-profit sectors. In other words, using technology to help our communities solve the seemingly unsolvable.

Creative Strategist
With an extensive track record of spearheading innovation for Fortune 500 clients across sectors and advising nonprofits while working with identity and strategic design agencies, Ann serves brands, startups and orgs by helping them launch, grow and innovate as a Creative Strategist
She focuses on the integration of data sets, trend analysis, foresight and cultural intelligence, a synthesis affording solutions more responsive to the complexities of the 21st century. Ann supports client's capacities to rethink/retool as socio-ecologically, regenerative enterprise through big transformative ideas that serve the greater good and thrive in multiplicitous economies.

Knowledge Ecologist & Socialroots Founder
I'm Christina Bowen. I build dynamic maps and design human-centered software aimed at coherent futures. My background in wetland ecology and environmental science helps me trace information flows in human organizations and communities. For over two decades I've been learning what living systems principles mean for human groups.
Since 2015, I've been applying this knowledge using maps to make effective strategic options more visible. My network landscapes and system maps help people see their way through tangled wicked problems to the opportunities. I’m currently building Socialroots to support cross-group communication for some of our biggest challenges.

Executive Producer & Writer
Jonas is an Austin, Texas and Mexico-based bestselling author, writer & producer, and has worked on numerous large-scale art + tech social innovation media projects.