βΊTent 3: Creating & navigating alternatives
How to change the status quo?
If you have visited tent 2 before opening the door to tent 3, you already had a chance to learn, act and reflect on the design challenges we as humanity are facing. How can we design and contribute to a more healthy and thriving society? In order to not repeat mistakes from the past, it is important to understand first how systems change. This tent will equip you with capacities like thinking in systems, changing perspectives and telling new stories, as well as the ability to select frameworks and concepts around sustainability that are most helpful for your sustainability work.
you have a better sense of how systems change
you have expanded your ability to choose helpful concepts for your sustainability endeavours
you have further developed helpful competencies like systems thinking
How does change happen in complex, adaptive systems, and in particular in the social systems that pose the sustainability design challenges? Here are some resources to get you started with a wider understanding on systems change.
Here 2 little stories to get you going:
Now that we are getting ready for change, what are the maps and tools that can actually help us on the journey? The answer: there's no easy answer, and it really depends on your context and what you want to achieve and with whom.
A wise person once said 'We create concepts to navigate our world - and some of them are more helpful than others, depending on the context." Over the past decades, the world has been swamped with different theories and concepts about sustainability and sustainable development, leaving many of us clueless about what to use when and why. What can really help us to make a difference?
How to choose and work with a framework, how will it support you on your journey? Let's explore this together, zooming into some of the models that are out there at the moment!
We brainstormed a list of tools, frameworks, concepts for sustainable development for you. They all are clearly targeted at different audiences and more or less useful on different levels. We don't ask you to get to know them all, but get a sense of the differences. How?
Pick one framework (maybe one you haven't heard about yet?)
Get informed. We added one video to get you started & do a little research on the framework. You decide how much time you want to put there. Here a little catalogue of questions:
3. Share your newly acquired knowledge with your peers: In a creative way π· π π§, share a short summary in the #tent3 channel on discord and look at 2β3 summaries of others.
Here's the list:
This of course is a highly limited & incomplete list of frameworks. What other concepts & frameworks do you know? Share with your fellow travellers on discord!
Writing and sharing the summary of your research is enough work for this tent. Embrace your achievement so far and reward yourself with a 15-minute meditation - you have been learning a lot, let it sink! :) (15 min)
Record a short private voice message to yourself and/or another oikee from the community reflecting on why & how systems change is personal
Concepts like systems thinking or the SDGs help us navigate change. Think about where in your life you've been using such concepts to navigate change.
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