Updated 2018-09-15 at 15:24
… for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.
– Umberto Eco
… at every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different.
– Roberto Unger
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
– Kurt Vonnegut
Learning outcomes week 3
On completion of the course, the student should be able to:
- summarise and critically relate to different perspectives, central theories and concepts within the climate change leadership field;
- discuss and problematise current issues and research within the climate change leadership field
- identify, analyse and critically relate to power relations, ethical dilemmas and conflicts within the climate change leadership field;
Assignment week 3
The examination in preparation for the mandatory seminar/workshop Friday September 21 focuses on to plan, build, realising change in the world in the form a systems-thinking visual project plan.
The systems map/visual should show the end goals (what you are trying achieve) of the project/work during the course, and how to get there. Reference sources when relevant and connect to the topics, concepts, theories and perspectives we have discussed during the first three weeks of the course. It can be a physcial paper map (take a picture of it to upload) or a digital version.
You will do an individual systems map, but collaboration with others are welcome (for example getting feedback on a draft).
The systems map should include:
- 1. Your name and tentative title project name.
2. Goals and the practical things you are trying change/achieve – what are the end results? – how are emissions lowered? – how does adaptation relate to your project?
3. Impacts – what are the negative and positive impacts along the way? Environmental, social, economic?
Upload your text no later than Thursday September 20 at 21.00 here: www.studentportalen.uu.se (if the link doesn’t work just login to studentportalen and upload the assignment) and be prepared to present and discuss your systems map in class.
Be helped and inspired by the web page: https://www.drawtoast.com/.
Read/download: Grading Criteria CEMUS.
Texts (click on bold title to access the text), videos, audio and visuals
3.1 ART AND CLIMATE CHANGE
– Alan Boldon
Joanna Macy at Bioneers 2009 from Defend theCommons on Vimeo.
3.2 CLIMATE COMMUNICATION AND PSYCHOLOGY
Read Introduction (xiii) and Part 1. Thinking (p. 3-86) Stoknes, Per Espen (2015). What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming. White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing.
3.3 LEADERSHIP
Read Chapter 1-6: Alvesson, Mats, Blom, Martin & Sveningsson, Stefan (2017). Reflexive leadership: organising in an imperfect world. London: SAGE.
3.4 PROJECT AND CONFERENCE PLANNING
Articles in The Beam #6, select at least 3 articles that connects your idea of the project work you will be doing during the course.
Six Steps to Natural Enterprise: A Synopsis of “Finding the Sweet Spot”
– Dave Pollard, October 9, 2008
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
– Donella Meadows, 1999, Sustainability Institute
3.5 QUESTIONS W3
3.6 ASSIGNMENT WEEK 3
See at the top of the page.