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Academic Insights on Complexity & Populism

14 May 2025

Academia needs to engage in generative scholarship that builds complexity and imagination capability.

We’re proud to share a powerful article by Prof. Dr. Ali Aslan Gümüsay, published in this week’s DIE ZEIT.

In it, he advocates “for a science that helps shape the future”—calling on academia to foster imagination and complexity capability as vital tools to counter populism and engage meaningfully with society. A must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of research and impact.

🔗 Read the full article here: https://www.zeit.de/2025/19/forschung-populismus-wissenschaft-komplexitaetsbefaehigung