What is it about?
Identity and its development are parts of lifelong, existential aspects of human existence.

Alongside influence from genetic disposition, identity develops in corridors linking individual needs, objectives and motives with the requirements of an individual’s relevant environments.


Identity is co-created via bargaining processes of self- and other-narratives. It functions as an important basis of our perception and assessment of the worlds we live in.

Even though adult identity is often thought of and experienced as solid, defined and invariable, it does, upon deeper exploration, contain an amazing degree of inner diversity. This diversity points to our individual affiliation to various human communities. And it helps to moderate the balance between stability and development of a given identity.


So the shown different aspects of the very same tree on our webpages illustrate the permanent recognizability of individuals over time and, interconnected to it, the ever-changing expression and development of different aspects of diversity within our identities.