ESTRI

At ESTRI, we study branches of knowledge that stem from the properties of Emergence and Transience.

We define emergence as the process of becoming—through force or allowance—what an individual, community, or system is inherently meant to become. Emergent properties are those that arise without obfuscation, and cannot be reduced to constituent parts. We understand these properties as those that appear when no other option is present: the necessary unfolding of what must be.

We study transience as a principle of impermanence and change. Rather than seeking to preserve or ossify structure, we examine what systems do when they move: how they self-correct, how they disintegrate, how they survive. Transience is the architecture of decay and re-formation. It is a lens for understanding nomadism, ephemerality, grief, and systems of departure.