UPCOMING EVENT: Re-thinking International Development: Towards Co-Creation of Knowledge and Future for Global Commons [Online, 4 March 2022]

A panel for the International Conference of Chulalongkorn University’s Futures Literacy Week

14:00 – 15:30, Friday 4th March 2022 [Thailand time]

This session explores the future of international development. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly shaped and changed the global political, socio-economic and cultural landscape in the way we have not witnessed in the past century. We have seen the rise of violent conflicts, political polarization, social divisions, and economic stagnation in every corner of the world. The shortage of vaccination and healthcare access in many places, especially in the global south, reflects a development gap and the deepening global inequality. Through knowledge exchange between scholars from the global north and south, this panel hopes to rethink the international development in years to come in terms of landscape, emerging issues, approaches, and eventually meaning. The session will aim to address the following key questions: 1) How will the international development landscape be in post-COVID 19 pandemic era?; 2) What would be the emerging issues in international development?; 3) What are new approaches to international development? ; and eventually 4) What does it mean to talk about “international development” in the post-COVID 19 contexts?

Panelists;

Prof. Dr. Jin Sato, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo; President, Japan Society for International Development Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mandy Sadan, Director of the Graduate Taught Programmes in Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick Mr. Hermes Huang, Design Thinking Practitioner, Co-Founder, InsightPact

Moderator;

Dr. Bhanubhatra Jittang, Director, MAIDS-GRID, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

Learn more about Chulalongkorn University’s Futures Literacy Week here.

UPCOMING WORKSHOP: Futures Literacy Lab on Re-imagining Learning and Knowledge on Climate Change, Climate Action and Climate Justice [Online, 28 February 2022]

February 28 to March 2, 2022 (15:00 to 18:00 each day, Thailand time)

Co-designed by: The Center for Social Development Studies, Chulalongkorn University; and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 

Join us for an online Future Literacy Lab for brainstorming and imaginative thinking on Climate Change, Climate Action and Climate Justice.

Futures Literacy is a capability and a skill, allowing us to better understand the role that the future plays in what we see and do. Futures Literacy is important because imagining the future is what generates hope and fear, sense-making and meaning. Through this lab, we can be empowered as students to appreciate the power and role of learning and knowledge and be equipped to explore its potential in re-shaping the paradigm of climate action and climate justice. We will address questions including: Do we need to rethink how we learn? Whose knowledge counts? How can knowledge and learning lead to action?

We encourage active, passionate students on Thai university programs who are concerned about climate change and climate justice to be a part of this Future Literacy Lab. Please apply here. The deadline for application is 17:00 on Friday February 18th. 

The objectives of the Future Literacy Lab are:

• To encourage greater responsibility and action among all actors through (un)learning current knowledge on climate change, and rethink learning and knowledge to make it more 'actionable' in practice 

• To explore innovative and inclusive approaches that rethink governance systems for ensuring climate justice, and determine what role learning and knowledge creation should play

• To empower FLL participant's to act on climate change in creative and collective ways, and to build their awareness of how individual and collaborative action could address climate change, including towards achieving climate justice 

Accepted participants must be available to join all three sessions. All participants in the Future Literacy Lab will receive Certificates of Participation. 

Let’s come together to discover creative and sustainable climate solutions. It is time to test the power of collaborative and collective action between many actors including community organizations and individuals, global organizations, governments, private sectors, industry, researchers and academia.

The Future Literacy Lab is part of Chulalongkorn University’s Future Literacy Week (28 February to 4 March): Learn more here.

To discover more about Futures Literacy, see the resources on UNESCO’s website here.

Please apply here.

NEWS: CSDS Exhibition featured on "Chula at UNESCO High-Level Futures Literacy Summit"

Mark your calendars, from 8 to 12 December 2020, the High-Level Futures Literacy Summit will provide testimonials from around the world that being futures literate changes what people see and do. From high ranking leaders in the public and private sector to activists, artists, students and professors, the Summit will show how people become futures literate and the impact it has on all aspects of life, from dealing with COVID-19 to breaking the reproduction of oppression.

Now, as always, the future is uncertain. Climate change, pandemics, economic crisis, social exclusion, racism, oppression of women, inter-generational conflict, and more, shatter the conventional images of the future that humans use to feel secure, to be confident enough to invest in tomorrow.

This is not a small problem. Without images of the future that inspire hope and foster collaboration there is a high risk of despair and war. The malaise of poverty-of-the-imagination must be overcome.  

Register Now!

Chula at UNESCO High-Level Futures Literacy Summit

Futures Literacy, a universally accessible skill that builds on the innate human capacity to imagine the future, offers a clear, field tested solution to poverty-of-the imagination.

This hybrid event will provide testimonials from around the world how being Futures Literate changes what people see and do and innovate the present. The event consists of Summit Plenary engaging in “future conversation” by world leaders, Agora (virtual exhibition) from more than 50 leading institutions and Global Futures Literacy Network side-events online. Chulalongkorn University, the only invited participating institution at the Summit from Thailand, will join the Summit Plenary and showcase its flagship projects in Agora, aiming to reach out future collaborators and partnerships across the world.

Dates: December 8-12, 2020

Register: click here

For further information: The Event, More on Futures Literacy