Tagpuan Ateneo

Research

The world needs to get its act together to solve its problems—but first, “people need to bridge the chasms that separate them from each other, and focus on things that unite, instead of those that divide. 

^{Ateneo de Manila University Lux-In-Domino Strategic Plan 2021-2023}

Tagpuan Ateneo Center for Dialogue, Research, and Collaboration was created – based on the foundation of the culture of encounter outlined in Pope Francis’ Fratelli Tutti – to support interdisciplinary research projects that respond to Ateneo de Manila University's Strategic Area of Bridging Cultural Divides, through a synergistic mobilization of research, intervention, and knowledge production. These projects attend to the various and puzzling ways polarization manifests in our VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) world, and how we might respond to such polarization through concrete actions or processes.

Tagpuan Ateneo emphasizes the value of developing a culture of encounter and collaboration to find a common ground and move towards the common good while being keenly aware of the exclusionary implications of any form of interventions by virtue of its limits. Its research synergizes the power of research, action, and knowledge production in bridging the various divides that people experience today, through clear objectives and outputs.