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1 Welcome to Today s Presentations and Discussion!!! (The (The best best at at this this conference!!) conference!!) SESSION 11. Toward a Futures Movement: Research collaboration on climate change as an opportunity to build a futures consciousness for global sustainability I & II Room: LS 07 Friday Room: 12 June, LS 07, 9:30 11:00 Friday 12 and June, 11:00-12:30 9:30 11:00 and 11:00-12:30 Chair: Dr. Enrico J. Wensing Chair: Dr. Enrico J. Wensing 1. The role of heal-being for sustainable future society - Hyun-ryul Park, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, 1. The Republic role of of Korea heal-being for for sustainable future future society society - Hyun-ryul - Hyun-ryul Park Park, and Chung-Ang, University, Seoul, Republic of Korea 2. New consciousness: A societal and energetic vision for for rebalancing humankind within the the limits of 2. planet New of planet consciousness: earth earth - Christian - Christian A societal Breyer, Breyer, Sirkka and Sirkka energetic Heinonen Heinonen & vision Juho & Juho Ruotsalainen for rebalancing Ruotsalainen Department humankind Department of Energy, within of Energy, Lappeenranta, the limits of planet University Lappeenranta, earth of Technology, - Christian University Breyer, Finland, of Technology, Sirkka Finland Heinonen Futures Finland, Research Finland & Juho Ruotsalainen Futures Centre, Research University Department Centre, of Turku University of Energy, of Lappeenranta, Turku University of Technology, Finland, Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku 3. Foresight for intuition to investigate and anticipate the common ground in sustainability 3. Foresight Cristiano Cagnin, for intuition Denis Loveridge, to investigate Beatriz and Vilela, anticipate Center for the Strategic common Studies ground and in Management, sustainability Brazil; Cristiano University Cagnin, of Manchester, Denis Loveridge, UK Beatriz Vilela, Center for Strategic Studies and Management, Brazil; University of Manchester, UK 4. Back to front, upside down, inside out: Towards sustainable future society 4. Back Tarja Ketola, front, Turku upside School down, of Economics inside out: & Faculty Towards of Humanities, sustainable University future society of Turku, Finland Tarja Ketola, Turku School of Economics & Faculty of Humanities, University of Turku, Finland 5. Reverse engineering the state machinery for low-carbon public policy 5. Reverse Joni Karjalainen, engineering Finland the Futures state Research machinery Centre, for low-carbon University of Turku, public Finland policy Joni Karjalainen, Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku, Finland 6. How to reduce our consumption? 6. How Sanna to Ahvenharju, reduce our Finland consumption? Futures Research Centre, University of Turku, Finland Sanna Ahvenharju, Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku, Finland

2 Welcome to Today s Presentations and Discussion!!! (The best at this conference!!) SESSION 11. Toward a Futures Movement: Research collaboration on climate change as an opportunity to build a futures consciousness for global sustainability I & II Room: LS 07, Friday 12 June, 9:30 11:00 and 11:00-12:30 Chair: Dr. Enrico J. Wensing The Other Session: Session: Futures Futures Studies Studies for Sustainability for Sustainability Futures Research Studies for Sustainability 1) Sustainability governance, 2) Politicizing social environmental research, 3) Governance solutions for Policy is important, but it s difficult, and its not enough wicked problems, 4) Integrating governance in regional- scale low-carbon Scenarios). Technology is important, but it s difficult, and its not enough Policy is important, but it s difficult, and its it s not enough People are important, key people, key actors/agents this can be enough. Technology is important, but it s difficult, and its it s not enough People are important, key people, key actors/agents this can be enough.

3 Enrico Wensing PhD MSc - Molecular Genetics (Canadian Medical Research Scholar) PhD - Psychology and (Social) Sustainability and Sustainability (2012) (2012) US National Science Foundation (Arctic Social Sciences Program, ) ) Research Faculty, Environmental Science & Policy George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Research Team, Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University - Yale University Assistant Professor, Center for Global Health, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA Research Faculty, Caribbean Green Technology Center, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, USVI

4 Where are the U.S. Virgin Islands?

5 Welcome to Today s Presentations and Discussion!! (The best at this conference!!) SESSION 11. Toward a Futures Movement: Research collaboration on climate change as an opportunity to build a futures consciousness for global sustainability I & II Room: LS 07 Friday 12 June, 9:30 11:00 and 11:00-12:30 Chair: Dr. Enrico J. Wensing 1. Toward a Futures Movement: Research collaboration on climate change as an opportunity to build a futures consciousness for global sustainability 2. The role of heal-being for sustainable future society 3. New consciousness: A societal and energetic vision for rebalancing humankind within the limits of planet earth 4. Foresight for intuition to investigate and anticipate the common ground in sustainability 5. Back to front, upside down, inside out: Towards sustainable future society 6. Reverse engineering the state machinery for low-carbon public policy 7. How to reduce our consumption?

6 What is your Role in Creating Sustainable Systems?

7 Toward a Futures Movement: Research collaboration on climate change as an opportunity to build a futures consciousness for global sustainability

8 Toward Toward a Futures a Futures Movement: Movement: Research Research collaboration collaboration on climate on change climate as change opportunity as an opportunity to build a futures to build consciousness a futures consciousness for global for sustainability in global Creating sustainability Sustainable Systems? 1. Futures movement Movement 2. Futures consciousness Consciousness 3. Sustainability Global Sustainability

9 Toward a Futures Movement: Research collaboration on climate change as an opportunity to build a futures consciousness for global sustainability in Creating Sustainable Systems? Futures movement - Global social megatrends - globalization, economic, behavior, policy Collective identity - We Are Sustainability Collective Action - Indvidual/households (micro) to societies (macro) Futures consciousness - Individual to collective (national, international)

10 Toward a Futures Movement: Research collaboration on climate change as an opportunity to build a futures consciousness for global sustainability in Creating Sustainable Systems? Futures Consciousness - "Future consciousness is part of our general awareness of time, our temporal consciousness of past, present, and future. Future consciousness includes the normal human capacities to anticipate, predict, and image the future, to have hopes and dreams about the future, and to set future goals and plans for the future. Future consciousness includes thinking about the future, evaluating different possibilities and choices, and having feelings, motives, and attitudes about tomorrow. Future consciousness includes the total set of ideas, visions, theories, and beliefs humans have about the future - the mental content of future consciousness. I define "future consciousness" as the total integrative set of psychological abilities, processes, and experiences humans use in understanding and dealing with the future. (Lombardo, 2008, p. 5)

11 Global Sustainability?????? Sustainability???

12 Global Sustainability?????? What? Why? How What?? When Why (How? fast)?(climate/environmental change as an unignorable driver) How? Understanding When (How what fast) it is,? is the pathway to achieving it. Who Understanding???.perhaps the what most it is, important is the pathway question. to achieving it. What, Who???.perhaps why, how, and who most are connected. importantly. That is, we discover what sustainability by exploring who we are.

13 Sustainability??? Sustainability is not a fixed ideal, but an evolutionary process of attempting to improve the management of systems, through improved understanding and knowledge. The process is not deterministic: the end-point is not known in advance. The starting point of the process is not some degree of sustainability because this cannot be known or observed. It is considered that unsustainability which can be seen is necessarily the starting point for this process. What is known to be unsustainable will change and evolve with new information and experience, which makes the process dynamic rather than static. (Wilkinson and Cary (2002, p.381))

14 Sustainability??? AKA: A Safe Operating Space for Humanity (Rockström, et al. 2009).

15 Kate Raworth, 2012

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17 Wicked Problems Defined by high complexity, uncertainty, and contested social values. Traditional modes of inquiry are unable to produce knowledge that is robust enough to withstand contested values and high complexity. Wicked problems are often characterized by multiple conflicting and equally valid scientific and social interpretations. (Miller, 2012: Rittel & Webber, (1973) Public Policy Planing)

18 Climate Change is a Super Wicked Problem Super wicked problems comprise four key features: 1) Time is running out 2) Those who cause the problem also seek to provide a solution 3) The central authority needed to address them is weak or non-existent 4) Irrational discounting occurs that pushes responses into the future Together these features create a tragedy because our governance institutions, and the policies they generate (or fail to generate), largely respond to short term time horizons even when the catastrophic implications of doing so are far greater than any real or perceived benefits of inaction. (Levin, Cashore, Bernstein, & Auld, 2012).

19 People for a sustainable future?

20 People for a sustainable future? Global Warming s Six Americas - Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale

21 People for a sustainable future?

22 fice of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP White House, Washington, D.C. Resilient People at the Intersection of Climate, Culture and Community: Mental Health and Wellness

23 Community Leaders for Sustainability (Change Agents)

24 People from the sustainable future? People for a sustainable future? People who for a already sustainable have future? experience with being sustainable People 1. Indigenous for a sustainable Cultures future? World Those Indigenous benefit already Cultures engaged communities leaders, in cultural initiatives creatives, for sustainability evolutionary - 2. leaders, Literature Those positive currently review/analysis deviants, engaged social in initiatives entrepreneur for sustainability 2. (international) Those already engaged social workers, in initiatives sustainability for - 3. Literature Literature review/analysis review/analysis champions, adaptive network leaders, knowledge managers, transition managers, and boundary managers...

25 We began our inquiry by seeking out... [those] who were outstanding in their participation in community affairs. Such persons were not difficult to find. Among residents of the community, as among our own observers, there was clear consensus about a score of individuals who were judged to be the guiding lights of community endeavor. Moreover, these persons did appear to differ in their social outlook from the ordinary citizen and especially from the nonparticipant in community affairs. (Bronfenbrenner, 1960, p. 54)

26 Community Leaders for Sustainability (CLS): Community Leaders for Sustainability (CLS): 1. Global Sustainability Inventory (GSI) Profile (Characterize) (2011) 1. Global Sustainability Inventory (GSI) - Profile (Characterize) (2011) 2. Sustainable Futures Protocol (SFP) - Develop (Optimize) (2011) 3. Global Social Sustainability Hub (GSSH) - Connect /Network (Mobilize)(2014) (2014) 4. Sustainable Futures Protocol 2.0 for I2S (SFPI2S) - I2S Training (Specialize) (2015)

27 Community Leaders for Sustainability (Change Agents)

28 Community Leaders for Sustainability (CLS)

29 Sustainable Futures Protocol (SFP) Higher-Order Learning How much courses emphasize advanced thinking skills such as applying theories to practical problems or synthesizing information into new interpretations Integrative Learning Integrating ideas from various sources, including diverse perspectives in coursework Reflective Learning Examining one s own thinking and the perspectives of others

30 Community Leaders for Sustainability (CLS) (This Community is the Characterize Leaders for and Sustainability Optimize part) (CLS) (This is the characterize and mobilize part) Next lastly mobilize Lastly mobilize is.

31 Global Social Sustainability Hub (GSSH) ( Wensing, Hurth, Laszlo, & Virgo, 2015). June 2014).

32 Global Social Sustainability Hub (GSSH) ( Wensing, Hurth, Laszlo, & Virgo, 2015).

33 Global Global Social Social Sustainability Sustainability Hub (GSSH) to Hub mobilize Global Social Sustainability Hub (GSSH) (Phase 3a) University-led Service-Learning Community-based Research Network

34 Global Global Social Sustainability Social Sustainability Hub (GSSH) Hub (GSSH) (Phase 3a ) 1. Quajigiartiit Health Research Center, Iqualuit 2. Nunavut Arctic College, Arviat 3. Plymouth University, UK 4. Rigolet Community, Nunatsiavut, Canada 5. Cape Breton University, Canada 6. Oymyakon and Yakutsk, Siberia, Russia 7. Cultura21, Copenhagen, Denmark 8. George Mason University, VA 9. Old Dominion University, VA 10. Harvard Graduate School of Education, MA 11. Howard University, Washington, D.C. 12. University of the Virgin Islands 13. San Carlos University, Guatemala 14. University of Toronto, Canada 15. University of Tasmania, Australia 16. Saybrook University, California 17. University of Alaska Fairbanks 1. Quajigiartiit Health Research Center, Iqualuit 2. Nunavut Arctic College, Arviat 3. Plymouth University, UK 4. Rigolet Community, Nunatsiavut, Canada 5. Cape Breton University, Canada Canada Oymyakon Oymyakon and and Yakutsk, Yakutsk, Siberia, Siberia, Russia Russia 7. Cultura21, Copenhagen, Denmark 7. Cultura21, Copenhagen, Denmark 8. George Mason University, VA 8. George Mason University, VA 9. Old Dominion University, VA 9. Old Dominion University, VA 10. Harvard Graduate School of Education, MA Howard Harvard University, Graduate Washington, School of Education, D.C. MA University Howard University, of the Virgin Washington, Islands D.C San University Carlos of University, the Virgin Guatemala Islands University San Carlos of University, Toronto, Canada Guatemala University of Tasmania, Toronto, Canada Australia Saybrook University University, of Tasmania, California Australia University Saybrook University, of Alaska Fairbanks California Engineers University Without of Alaska Borders Fairbanks Cultura21Nordic Engineers Without Borders

35 Community Leaders for Sustainability (CLS): Community Leaders for Sustainability (CLS): 1. Global Sustainability Inventory (GSI) Profile (Characterize) (2011) 1. Global Sustainability Inventory (GSI) - Profile (Characterize) (2011) 2. Sustainable Futures Protocol (SFP) - Develop (Optimize) (2011) 3. Global Social Sustainability Hub (GSSH) - Connect /Network (Mobilize)(2014) (2014) 4. Sustainable Futures Protocol 2.0 for I2S (SFPI2S) - I2S Training (Specialize) (2015)

36 Community Leaders for Sustainability (CLS) A New Narrative for a New Identity Imagine, if you had a tool in which you could type a tough and bureaucratic word and get out a simple, yet strongly relatable redefinition that everybody could understand? Imagine how easy it would be to communicate sustainability. Kajsa Li Paludan Gabriel Ladung in collaboration with the SFP Research

37 Toward a Futures Movement: Research collaboration on climate change as an opportunity to build a futures consciousness for global sustainability in Creating Sustainable Systems? Futures Consciousness - "Future consciousness is part of our general awareness of time, our temporal consciousness of past, present, and future. Future consciousness includes the normal human capacities to anticipate, predict, and image the future, to have hopes and dreams about the future, and to set future goals and plans for the future. Future consciousness includes thinking about the future, evaluating different possibilities and choices, and having feelings, motives, and attitudes about tomorrow. Future consciousness includes the total set of ideas, visions, theories, and beliefs humans have about the future - the mental content of future consciousness. I define "future consciousness" as the total integrative set of psychological abilities, processes, and experiences humans use in understanding and dealing with the future. (Lombardo, 2008, p. 5)

38 Toward a Futures Movement: Research collaboration on climate change as an opportunity to build a futures consciousness for global sustainability in Creating Sustainable Systems? Futures Consciousness -..maybe its time for a change an evolution of our thinking, framing and application of futures consciousness

39 SESSION 11. Toward a Futures Movement: Research collaboration on climate change as an opportunity to build a futures consciousness for global sustainability I & II June 12, 2015 Futures Consciousness - According to us (11). (11+). Hmmmmm?? "Future Futures consciousness Consciousness is..sustainable - According to consumption, us (11) (11+)??Hmmmmm Time balanced for a new values, definition? awareness of limits, action, continued learning, dialogue, respect for feelings, action in three dimensions (back to "Future front, consciousness upside down and is..sustainable inside out), embedded consumption, in reversed balanced engineered values, awareness policies, of linkage limits, of action, nature continued and human learning, health dialogue, (heal-being), respect and for identity feelings, action sustainability. three dimensions (back to front, upside down and inside out), embedded in reversed engineered policies, linkage (Ahvenharju, of nature and Beyer, human Cagnin, health Heinonen, (heal-being), Karjalainen, and identity Ketola, in sustainability. Loveridge, Park, Ruotsalainen, Viela, and Wensing, June 12, 2015) (Ahvenharju, Beyer, Cagnin, Heinonen, Karjalainen, Ketola, Loveridge, Park, Ruotsalainen, Futures Viela, and Studies Wensing, for Sustainability June 12, 2015) (Session 10) Evolving Identity for Futures Research (Theme 5) Toward a Global Social Movement for Sustainability driven, in part, by Futures Research

40 Thank You for your attention - ewensing@gmu.edu or ejwensing@gmail.com 2. The role of heal-being for for sustainable future future society society - Hyun-ryul - Hyun-ryul Park Park, and Chung-Ang, University, Seoul Republic of Republic Korea of Korea 3. New consciousness: A societal and energetic vision for rebalancing humankind within the limits of planet earth - Christian Breyer, Sirkka Heinonen & Juho Ruotsalainen Department of Energy, Lappeenranta, University of Technology, Finland, Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku 4. Foresight for intuition to investigate and anticipate the common ground in sustainability Cristiano Cagnin, Denis Loveridge, Beatriz Vilela, Center for Strategic Studies and Management, Brazil; University of Manchester, UK 5. Back to front, upside down, inside out: Towards sustainable future society Tarja Ketola, Turku School of Economics & Faculty of Humanities, University of Turku, Finland 6. Reverse engineering the state machinery for low-carbon public policy Joni Karjalainen, Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku, Finland 7. How to reduce our consumption? Sanna Ahvenharju, Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku, Finland