BAY AREA, CA — Tobias Rees, founder and CEO of Transformations of the Human (ToftH), has taken the program to the Bay Area. ToftH has been incubated by the Berggruen Institute since its inception in 2018.
During his time at the Berggruen Institute, Rees was able to establish forward thinking working groups on AI, Biotechnology, Platforms, and Cryptocurrency that helped formulate the basis of PArT, the methodology for combining philosophy, art and technology in order to challenge the concepts we live by. This methodology will be the outcome of the ToftH School curriculum, for which applications are now closed. With the support of the Berggruen Institute and board member Reid Hoffman, the Transformations of the Human program is now ready to stand on its own two feet both practically and financially.
“I am deeply indebted to Reid Hoffman and the institute for its belief in me and PArT. Without the BI we would not have been able to experiment on our methodology and curriculum. We will continue to maintain a deep relationship and will continue to work together in a new way. I am so thankful to the institute and excited for the future.”
— Tobias Rees, Transformations of the Human CEO
Transformations of the Human (ToftH) has officially set up their own office located at 2225 5th Street in Berkeley, CA in preparation for the launch of their new school scheduled for December 2021. The first cohort of students to participate in the seven month one of a kind experimental curriculum will receive $40,000 each to contemplate the intersection of philosophy, art, and technology. Students will learn how to identify the ways in which technology disrupts the 19th-century ideas and institutions that organize how we live; how to invent concepts that bring new, technically enabled realities into view; and how to build technologies that, like works of art, do not only disrupt old, but also provide new concepts and philosophies, that change how we can live.
In addition to the ToftH School, Rees continues to lead a team of researchers that explore the philosophical implications surrounding projects and product development at Fortune 500 and startup technology companies.
