Indy Johar

Indy shares that his experiences growing up in Delhi during riots
in the 1980s shaped his view on the power of division and
violence, leading him to question underlying philosophies and
seek coherence. He studied architecture and was interested in
democratizing how we construct our built environments and
societies, which gave him insights into how we create
environments and the limitations of current systems.


Indy discusses the concept of "self-terminating" systems, where
our treatment of nature as a dead resource to consume is actually
driving feedback loops that are destroying ecological systems and
impacting humanity. This feedback is building planetary
intelligence. He advocates for a shift to seeing nature as
generative rather than a resource, and moving to relationships of
treaty rather than enslavement through concepts like property,
which opens up new concepts of wealth and relationships.


Indy's work with Dark Matter and others explores new frameworks
like houses and land that own themselves, self-sovereign
surveillance systems, tree canopies as assets rather than
liabilities, and reimagining governance of natural and
technological systems. He sees the need for soul, worldview and
institutional shifts alongside technological change to transition
to systems that are life-affirming for all, including humans,
non-humans and machines.


Indy envisions a potential future of hyperabundance if we can
survive the next few decades, once energy superabundance is
unlocked, but warns excessive consumption could be
self-terminating without shifts in how we see ourselves. His key
concept to embed in all humanity is seeing ourselves not as
individuals but as multitudes, beings that are interbecomings as
verbs not nouns, defined by our relationships and entanglement
with all of existence.