The Academy is a community of scholars, drawn from diverse cultures, who reflect upon and provide fresh contexts for selecting the most appropriate intervention points in systems that are failing. Academicians offer transformational insights, practices and alternative design ontologies as an alternative to more dystopian views. A common feature is the ability of all academicians to collaborate in framing and expressing new knowledge regarding the most serious challenges facing human societies. They deem the human family to be at a critical juncture in its evolution. This is not only because our shared worldview has created socio-economic conditions that are divisive, and potentially catastrophic, but because it exhibits factors indicating its most accepted constructs are worn out skeletons of past success models – used futures unable to sustain themselves in today’s world.