Welcome to the Lincoln Center

Engaging the humanities to shape technologies keyed to human flourishing.

The Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics (LCAE) advances teaching, research and community engagement efforts that explore
how best to live together as a human community, so that we all may achieve purposeful, productive and prosperous lives.

Our mission is to empower students, faculty, entrepreneurs, and the community to examine the impact of technologies in our
lives with the goal of designing a future keyed to human flourishing.

To best explain the work of LCAE, we share our four guiding principles. Through co-creative collaboration facilitated
by Design Thinking Consultant Dr. Tamara Christensen of Idea Farm, our team created these guiding principles to focus
our work while keeping ourselves accountable for our intended goals.

Walk our talk

Innovate ethically through an embodied and embedded practice that leverages insights from the humanities.

Ground the work

Concretize the vision and cultivate shared expectations.

Lead with trust and respect

Prize honesty, integrity, empathy, and difference and empower diverse perspectives.

Perceive and persist

Take chances, acknowledge and leverage failure while celebrating successes.

“Centering on this question of ‘who gets included’ in both how we imagine human intelligences but also how we make decisions on what these technological innovations are supposed to be for should always be at the forefront of the conversation.”

Sareeta Amrute
University of Washington Professor of Anthropology, Director of Research at Data Society

The Future of Humane Technology Symposium, Washington D.C.

"To understand and guide humane technologies, we must understand the human."

Craig Calhoun
University Professor, ASU School for the Future of Innovation

The Future of Humane Technology Symposium, Washington D.C.

“Humane tech are those that honor and accommodate the widest range of human variation. That means designing and building a world shaped to fit human bodies, rather than attempting to shape human bodies to fit the extent world.”

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Emory University Professor of English and Bioethics, Co-Director of the Disability Studies Initiative

The Future of Humane Technology Symposium, Washington D.C.

Welcome to the Lincoln Center

Engaging the humanities to shape technologies keyed to human flourishing.

Walk our talk

Ground the work

Lead with trust and respect

Perceive and persist

“Centering on this question of ‘who gets included’ in both how we imagine human intelligences but also how we make decisions on what these technological innovations are supposed to be for should always be at the forefront of the conversation.”

Sareeta Amrute University of Washington Professor of Anthropology, Director of Research at Data Society

"To understand and guide humane technologies, we must understand the human."

Craig Calhoun University Professor, ASU School for the Future of Innovation

“Humane tech are those that honor and accommodate the widest range of human variation. That means designing and building a world shaped to fit human bodies, rather than attempting to shape human bodies to fit the extent world.”

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Emory University Professor of English and Bioethics, Co-Director of the Disability Studies Initiative

Sareeta Amrute
University of Washington Professor of Anthropology, Director of Research at Data Society

Craig Calhoun
University Professor, ASU School for the Future of Innovation

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Emory University Professor of English and Bioethics, Co-Director of the Disability Studies Initiative