The Culture Hack Curriculum

The Culture of the Anthropocene

In this module, you will explore how culture, as a normative system, contributes to global issues like resource exploitation and inequality. We'll discuss our collective responsibility and the need to reassess and evolve our cultural systems beyond Anthropocentrism.
Introduction to Narratives

In this module, learn to identify narratives, their forms, and spaces. You'll understand four principles of narrative forms, uncovering their visible, hidden layers, the interaction between these layers, and their interplay with other narratives.
Cultural Evolution

In this module, you'll learn about Cultural Evolution through the lens of cooperative human behavior. You'll understand narrative environments: disciplinary, control, dialogic, and communitarian, and their role in defining cultural contexts. This knowledge will help you grasp our model for life-centric cultural evolution and assess the sustainability of various societal systems in context of these environments.
The CHL Methodology

An introduction to the five parts of the Culture Hack Method and how you can use it for designing effective narrative interventions
Step 1 - Ask

Learn to craft a Point of View Statement in this module, a crucial step that outlines your narrative intervention's context, goals, and guides your journey through key questions about identity, motivation, desired outcomes, and methods of change.
Step 2 - Listen

n this module, learn to listen to the narrative Space using a Listening Model. Understand big and small listening techniques, collect relevant data, and identify key narrative communities. This process is guided by your Point of View Statement and tailored to your specific objectives.
Step 3 - Identifying Narrative Communities

Using insights from your data, identify and describe narrative communities, groups persistently discussing a specific topic. In the next phase, you'll map these communities and their belief systems to guide your narrative intervention strategy.
Step 4 - Reframing Narratives

Using insights from your data, identify and describe narrative communities, groups persistently discussing a specific topic. In the next phase, you'll map these communities and their belief systems to guide your narrative intervention strategy.
What the Hack?

In this module, you'll learn to execute a culture hack using your narrative strategy and point of view. We'll define the message, meme, tone, media format, and optimal moment for your hack. Reflect on your work's personal, community, and planetary implications. Prepare to learn from trials and errors, and to create narratives serving life.
Curriculum glossary

A glossary of terms relevant for narrative work.

Step 3 - Identifying Narrative Communities

Step 3 Activity

Mapping Narratives Communities onto the Systems Knowledge Framework

To carry out this activity we are going to use the narrative communities you identified and map them according to their description in the System-Knowledge Framework. Arrange the circles encoded with the letters (found in first column of unit 2 activity on identifying your narrative communities) in the corresponding axes, they don’t have to be exactly on a certain axis, arrange them according to how you think they best fit the description you made of the community.

A. Name of the community

B. Name of the community

C. Name of the community

D. Name of the community

E. Name of the community

The Culture Hack Curriculum

The Culture Hack Curriculum

The Culture of the Anthropocene

Introduction to Narratives

Cultural Evolution

The CHL Methodology

Step 1 - Ask

Step 2 - Listen

Step 3 - Identifying Narrative Communities

Step 4 - Reframing Narratives

What the Hack?

Curriculum glossary

Step 3 Activity

Mapping Narratives Communities onto the Systems Knowledge Framework