Elias Diaz

Elias Diaz is a Philippine-based facilitator dedicated to surfacing contradictions and deepening dialogue on the subject of technological evolution and its impacts on relationality and consciousness. Elias is driven by questions of how cultural impulses discover their power in the self-organizing of civil society, and how this offers the possibility of developing empowering civic technologies. He is interested in how communities can awaken to collective agency in order to counterbalance market imperatives and state logics—examining the role of technology therein—and how contemplative wisdom can enable us to see the social organism more clearly, and catalyze social renewal. Elias is currently working with an environmental coalition focused on stopping environmentally destructive infrastructure projects that have been flagged in the massive national corruption scandals that have recently erupted in the Philippines.