| |
Project RESCUE
- Launching Conference in September 2009, Paris, France
- Third gathering in May 2010 Bonn, Germany
Anne Caspari is part of the Scientific Working Group on finding
integral ways “Towards a Revolution in Education and Capacity
Building”. The group is part of the programme Responses
to Environmental and Societal Challenges for Unstable Earth (RESCUE),
funded by the European Science Foundation.
|
| |
|
The members of the working group, chaired
by Prof. Dr. Karen O´Brien (University of Oslo, IPPC) are key
scientist and education experts from all over the world |
Paris
The RESCUE Launching Conference with the first workshops was held
on 10-11 September 2009 at the IFP for Innovation, Energy and
Environment, in Rue-il-Malmaison, Paris, France.
For further information please look here
|
| |
Bonn
May 26 to Friday 28 the working group gathered in Bonn, Germany,
in order to use action research foresight methods to co-create
new insights into how to make a revolution in education and capacity
building happen.
Members of the working
group "Towards a Revolution
in Education and Capacity Building"
|
 |
|
|
The workshop was aimed to “revolutionize” participant’s
visioning capacity. The first part of the workshop, led by Riel
Miller of Xperidox, was designed to plunge the participants into
a “futures literacy” learning process on how to realize
the breakthroughs that make a revolution in education and capacity
building happen.
It is about learning-by-doing and doing-by-learning. Participants
were constructing a shared and holistic understanding; a way of
making sense of the future that respects their knowledge of specific
subjects and places while also finding common threads and systemic
coherence across disciplines. This would be a part of the “revolution”
as they detected emergent and systemic changes in complex evolutionary
contexts.
Within that framework, Anne Caspari led a module of “Mindshifting:
The Key to Prototyping Revolutionary Change”. The
participants were briefly introduced to the integral model (AQAL)
and then led into 1st –person experiential exercises, designed
to give phenomenological insights on fixed view points and the ability
to shift out of fixed conditions. It prepares the deliberate identification
or dis-identification with definitions, identities and view points
regarding self definitions, or anything from climate change paradigms
to educational concepts.
This is seen as an introduction to a “Trim Tab Training”,
to make leaders and multipliers become extremely more effective
both personally and professionally, to foster the ability to multiple
viewpoints and paradoxes and to swap problem solving for the ability
to prototype and create.
The attached presentation shows the results of the workshop sessions
2 and 3 and where presented in Italy, June 16. Go
to presentation .... |
| |
| |
EU Project SHAMS/ iSEA
"Integral Strategic Environmental Assessment” in Bosra,
Syria
The EU project Shams is about sustainable urban development in a
world heritage site in Bosra, Syria, which has asked for support
in order to avoid the so common development traps of going for short
term gain by selling out cultural heritage, depleting water resources
or destroying the local social structure.
|
Bosra,
Syria |
Together with an expert team on cultural heritage from Italy we
have set up the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) to provide
a guiding framework and a tool for checking on the environmental,
socio-economic impacts of planned developments before a decision
is taken.
The integral framework allows us to find out and address blind
spots and root causes of culturally embedded obstacles in promoting
the sustainable valorisation of the tremendous cultural heritage
of Bosra. The integral method also provides an excellent tool
for ‘cultural translation’ between the various stakeholder
groups, which is of prime importance in a local community, where
traditional value systems are more and more failing to provide
answers for the emerging, more complex problems (with T6 Ecosystems;
Elza Maalouf as SDi – Trainer).
More
about the project ....
More about the analysis of the different value system ....
See also report on the website
of Elza Maalouf ....
The project was recently presented at the “Integral without
Borders” Conference 22-27 April in Istanbul, Turkey. Go
to presentation (pdf) ...
|
| |
|
Water Course Rehabilitation
Integral post implementation analysis of a urban rehabilitation
project
This EU funded project (URBAN) of a urban
rehabilitation project dealing with renaturation of a water course
in the Roman periphery, Tor Bella Monaca, has encountered virtually
all the problems a project could potentially face – and succeeded,
mainly due to the intuitive initiative of the planners.
Putting a method to “being a good planner” was the purpose
of the post-implementation analysis through the integral framework.
|
| |
|
|
This was presented in a word wide conference on River Rehabilitation
in Urban Context in Dresden, Germany and consequently published.
Anne Caspari (2005): Problem solving with the secondary water network
in Rome Metropolitan Area. Published in Tourbier & Schanze, Dresden
University Press, Germany. Go
to presentation (pdf )... |
| |
|
|
Let your life lightly
dance
on the edges of time like
dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
|
