Global Solutions Lab 2025 Research and development for the world - Chestnut Hill College

IN-PERSON and ONLINE— June 17–21, 2025

The 2025 Global Solutions Lab will be the 21st Lab. It is generally focused on making real the above quote of Buckminster Fuller, and specifically, on researching and developing strategic solutions for achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

• Format: The 2025 the Lab will be in-person and on-line. It will be an intense and every day experience. Participants will be expected to be make a substantial time contribution to the work of the Lab. The Lab will use the NewWorld Game global research and problem solving platform for their creative work. 
• The Lab focuses on research and developing solutions and implementation strategies to critical real-world problems that achieve one or more of the UN SDGs. Each participant is part of an international, cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary, and intergenerational Research and Design Team. This collaborative, creative effort culminates in a presentation of the Lab’s work to a group of UN, corporate, philanthropic, academic, and NGO leaders. See previous Lab work here (database) and here (books).
• Participants will learn a powerful strategic research, design and planning methodology that they will use to develop their solutions.

AI & Sustainable Development Goals

Invitation and Challenge

The powerful quote above encapsulates the ethos of the Global Solutions Lab. As we stand on the brink of technological revolutions that promise to redefine what is possible, it is imperative that we approach AI and other advances as architects, actively shaping our future rather than passively enduring it.

Welcome to the 2025 Global Solutions Lab— where we bring together four unique and powerful platforms in order to research, develop and implement the new and innovative solutions that the world so desperately needs:

• First, you will have access to the expertly crafted NewWorld Game online platform that embodies more than three decades of active research and problem solving protocol and has been successfully used by thousands of researchers around the world!
• Second, you will have access to the latest AI prompts and tools to help research, develop and pressure-test your solutions. You will gain hands-on experience using AI as a powerful engine for addressing the UN SDGs.
• Third, you will be able to submit your solution to the NewWorld Tournament where it can be awarded a cash prize for use in implementing your solution.
• Fourth, and most importantly, you will be working in teams with other inspired HI (human intelligence) from around the world. Your curiosity, passion, knowledge and collaboration will be what ultimately drives solutions for architecting a better world!

The 2025 Global Solutions Lab is where you will be the architects of the future, using the NewWorld Game AI-assisted platform and toolkit for researching and developing solutions to the UN SDGs. This call to harness the combined capabilities of human ingenuity and artificial intelligence to forge solutions for our world’s most pressing issues is what the world needs— now.

If you are interested in learning how to use AI to solve real-world problems— by actually using AI to research and solve complex, interconnected, critical global and local problems— then participate in the upcoming Global Solutions Lab. Here you will learn what questions, what prompts, are the most effective in eliciting the answers needed for developing, and implementing, solutions. You will learn what AI is really good for, where human intelligence is essential, and how the synergy of both leads to creative, sustainable, affordable solutions for climate change, poverty, food, energy, education, health and any problem situation about which you are passionately concerned.