The field we keep waiting for already exists in this room, too scattered to see itself. What single connection, made today, would let it start acting like one?
The University for the Well-being Economy cannot succeed alone, and it does not begin alone. A field of aligned institutions, programmes, networks, and communities of practice already exists: dispersed, often unaware of itself, and larger than any single actor within it can see. This workshop begins by making that living field visible, mapping the nodes already in the room and beyond, the work already underway, the connections that already carry weight. From that map, evidence that the alternative is not hypothetical but emergent, participants identify where the field is dense and where it is thin, and prototype the specific connections and collaborations that would allow it to function as a field rather than a scattering of initiatives. Constraint enters as design: what currently keeps these nodes isolated, and what would have to be true for them to reinforce each other. Participants leave with a mapped landscape of the institutions and programmes already active, the field made visible to itself, a prioritised set of thin points to strengthen, and concrete commitments from participating institutions to at least three specific collaborative connections.
