Jordan Walker

I've been studying the cultural landscape as long as I can remember. The resulting interest in new social forms shapes me as an artist, educator, and event producer.

We moved a lot throughout my childhood and my 3rd grade year was spent in China (as culturally foreign a place as an 8 year old could imagine). In 7th grade I had a radio show at the local college, each week immersing myself in the world of recorded music.

At 15, I went to a Grateful Dead concert, at 17 my first rave. By 19 years old I was spending my college vacations touring the country with the jam band Phish, receiving a uniquely experiential education in the way that community comes together around music and culture. Through my early 20’s, I lived in London, San Francisco, and Brooklyn. In each I observed the various ways that human creativity expressed itself and was put on display to shape (and be shaped by) society; from art museum to warehouse party, from medieval cathedral to Burning Man.

At 25, I met the work of Rudolf Steiner and found a frame big enough to include the diverse ideas that had been forming inside of me. The concept that consciousness itself was evolving fit with the phenomenon of my life. I studied Steiner's insights and traveled the world visiting the practical legacy of Waldorf Education, Biodynamic Farming, Camphill Communities and more. Slowly the ground came up to meet visions that had always felt like they were visiting from the future. A friend once joked that when we were in conversation he had "Vujà Dé" - the reoccurring feeling that we were catching a glimpse of what could be.

And now, with two young children of my own, there is the feeling that the future is asking me to take another important step. What are the social and artistic practices that constitute my social "studio"? What might it look like to help produce an event where other’s can come into contact with this “Spiritual Science” for the contemporary human being?

Two of the practical laboratories where I help prototype the answers to these questions are the online programs www.AppliedAnthroposophy.org and www.LiT-Forums.org. Both programs featuring a variety of presentations and group conversation. Leadership in Transformation (LiT) culminated July 2023 with an in-person Forum at the Field Center in the UK.