Liminal is an applied research organization cultivating coordination capacity in fragile territories

Liminal is an applied research organization founding the discipline of Territorial State Craft, the art of securing human flourishing through good government. The discipline rests on the conviction that places flourish or decline according to the state of the protocols they run on, and on the belief that fragile territories will be the first ground of the art. Founding a discipline means building all of it at once, so Liminal works across discourse, research and practice, developing its methods through experiments conducted in place and forming its practitioners through learning in the field. Around the two it assembles a network of organizations prepared to move before others, through which methods and practitioners enter transitions already under way in real territories. The whole is an institution built on the timescale of a cathedral, which passes through the incentives and opportunities of the short term in order to leave a lasting change in the life and government of European territories.