Purpose
Building on an exciting collaboration at Resilience Frontiers, on the success of a previous edition of this Futures Literacy course, the UNESCO Chair at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences and One Resilient Earth are offering once more a certified in-depth online course addressing the critical challenge of fostering transformative action in response to the climate emergency.
This course will enable students and professionals in the sustainability field, as well as individuals aspiring to dive into climate change challenges, to deepen their Futures Literacy skills so as to grow their own resilience and creativity. It will also provide practical advice and tools to mobilize Futures Literacy in professional contexts, and design transformative climate action.
Last, the course will build participants’ capacities to both innovate and embrace emergence, which are essential to designing and implementing impactful and regenerative initiatives today for a just, climate-positive, climate-resilient and biodiverse world.
Target audience
Target audience is students and professionals in the sustainability field, as well as individuals aspiring to dive into current climate change challenges. In case you would like to check if you are a good match for this course, feel free to contact us: contact@oneresilientearth.org.
Format
The course will take place online from 2.00 to 6.30 pm CET from Tuesday 14 January to Thursday 16 January, 2025 and will be offered to a small group of climate-curious individuals, sustainability students and sustainability professionals. It will be interactive, participatory, iterative and tailored to the needs of participants.
In order to enrich our imagination regarding the future, deepen connection to ourselves, and unleash creativity, One Resilient Earth will mobilize artworks, with a focus on multimedia and installation arts.
Feedback from previous participants
'I found the overall experience to be very informative, engaging, and eye-opening. As someone who is passionate about reimagining the future and helping people engage with the future, this training was exactly what I was looking for. I would love to delve further into Futures Literacy and further engage with it in my personal and professional life. I would highly recommend this training to anyone and hope that I can bring it into everything that I do.'
'The training was immersive, providing an experiential introduction to futures literacy. This design created an experience of the process which then made theoretical exploration more meaningful. The facilitators held the process skilfully and displayed depth of understanding. The use of technology was excellent, with the Miro board providing a map of the overall process and means of collaboration in the learning process.The climate action focus was engaging and the arts angle added an interesting angle to consider ways of nudging systemic transformation.'
Structure of the course
The course will enable participants to acquire an in-depth understanding of Futures Literacy, as a capability that facilitates the development of critical new skills to respond to the climate emergency. Futures Literacy will be taught through a Futures Literacy Lab on the future of climate action. The Lab will be informed by presentations of climate change projections and of recent trends in terms of climate action. Different climate scenarios and challenges identified will be discussed with the support of artworks through interactive sessions. The objectives of the course are to:
- Acquire an understanding of the Futures Literacy framework, and of different ways of mobilizing the future for transformative climate action;
- Adopt new approaches to building climate resilience, and embracing emergence in innovative climate-positive designs;
- Experiment with art as a channel for inner change and creativity growth.
Registration
We offer different fee categories to enable access and diversity in the group (click on ‘tickets’ for details). Participation in the different fee categories are capped, and we invite you to register early. All benefits made through this course support One Resilient Earth’s portfolio of regenerative activities.
In case you need a scholarship, cannot attend the course at this time, have any question and/or would like to hear about later opportunities, please follow our Eventbrite account and/or contact us: contact@oneresilientearth.org.
Research
A survey proposed at the end of this course will help gather information for research activities undertaken by Hanze University. The contributions of all participants to the survey are welcome.
Follow up
Three-month after the workshop, the teams at UNESCO Chair at Hanze University and One Resilient Earth will organize a follow-up group call to discuss different cases and scenarios shared by participants who have applied their newly acquired Futures Literacy skills in their workplace . This dialogue will provide an opportunity to deepen Futures Literacy skills, and to learn collectively from the experience of mobilizing Futures Literacy when designing and implementing climate action in the workplace.
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More infomation about this event is available at the registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/futures-literacy-arts-for-transformative-climate-action-tickets-1011147077127