Futurism and Techno

NeueHouse is a private workspace and cultural home for creators, innovators and thought-leaders. Designed to inspire the creative mindset, cultivate curiosity, and provoke new ways of thinking, we have curated a community of original thinkers at the leading intersection of contemporary culture and commerce.

Marcelo Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. He obtained his Ph.D. from King’s College London and received the 1994 Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is the 2019 Templeton Prize Laureate, an honor he shares with Mother Tereza, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, and scientists Freeman Dyson and Martin Rees.

His books have been published in 15 languages and include The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and The Search for Meaning, A Tear at the Edge of Creation, and The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected. A world-renowned theoretical physicist interested in cosmology and astrobiology, he has published hundreds of peer-reviewed articles, and more than a thousand essays and op-eds, and frequently participates in TV documentaries and radio shows in the U.S. and abroad. He is the co-founder of the NPR blog on science and culture, 13.7. He currently directs the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth College and writes weekly for Orbiter Magazine.

Everard Findlay blends branding and social innovation to empower CEOs, heads of state, and thought leaders to invest in a future that benefits citizens, the environment, and society as a whole while building profitability and growth.

Findlay has served on the board of GrowNYC, the Council for the Environment of New York City since 2009 and is currently Communications Chair. He is a founding trustee of The Museum of the Courageous, NeueHouse, tenured board member of Soho House, UNDP Turning Tables, Dartmouth College’s Institute for Cross-engagement, The New York Times’ Friends of TimesTalks Committee and The National Center for Children in Poverty.

MKR City expands the use of the word “Maker” to include individuals working to build their communities and neighborhoods in resourceful and often astonishing ways. From visual artists, to musicians, to barbers, to physicists, to inventive mowers-of-lawns, to homemakers, to city-planners and developers, MKR City exists to connect visionaries in infinite fields, united by the desire to create social, cultural and economic value while fostering the common good.

Juan Atkins is an American musician. He is widely credited as the originator of techno music, specifically Detroit techno along with Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. The three, sometimes called The Belleville Three, attended high school together in Belleville, Michigan, near Detroit.

As a professor, now at Brown University, Alexander has spent most of his career being an advocate of first generation and historically underrepresented groups in the sciences. He was formerly the Director of Dartmouth College’s EE Just STEM Scholars Program. He also does volunteer public speaking in inner city schools and teaches mathematics in prisons and sees these activities as essential parts of his scholarship.