The 2026 Open days are focused on the co-construction of a LiLo Manifesto(ing) — an ongoing attempt to articulate the foundations, motivations, and reasons for “being/becoming LiLo.” It is organised around a guiding question:

Why do we need systems of knowledge production grounded in values (and experiences of) Wisdom, Beauty, Love and Justice, embedded in transformative fabrics of relations — and what difference can they make in supporting the emergence and cultivation of worlds worth living in?

In our March and May Open Days, we explored modes, languages, and metaphors for the process of building the Manifesto(ing) itself — attending to the HOW. We built from our lived experiences to ground the manifest and we explored the core of our motivations: WHY does this matter and to whom? WHAT should the Manifesto(ing) hold and communicate? And FOR WHOM might it matter beyond ourselves?

This July, we look outward and across — and simultaneously, more deeply inward. We ask also: WHO ELSE, WHERE ELSE? Across research traditions, civic and professional practices, and other forms of organised life — who has advocated, enacted, or inhabited kindred commitments to the role of experiences of Wisdom, Beauty, Justice and Love in how we create knowledge? WHAT experiences can illustrate what we aim to communicate? And HOW EXACTLY do we bring it all together into a first composition of the Manifesto(ing).

Note: This event will work with pre-sessional contributions (please read the details and links in the programme. Your contributions, even if you are not attending the event, are an important way of participating)

• DATES: July 11-12, 2026
• LINK: Indicative Programme
• MODE: Hybrid (online/in-presence at LiLo House)
• INVITATIONS: This event is for LiLo Associates or for their invited guests, who would participate as Visitor Associates*. If you know an Associate, you can ask for them to invite you(!), or if you are interested in participating but have no existing links to LiLo, or its Associates, then please send an expression of interest by email to lilo.institute.web@gmail.com.

*subject to the formalisation of the Visitor Associate status and payment of the corresponding fee, which for this event will be 3 euros (2 euros one-time joining fee, and 1 euro for the event, to offset admin costs).