Workshop: Systems Thinking – Become A Change Maker. Peer & Mentor Tutorial Session
- When: 09.2024
- Where: UZH, Zürich (CH) / Kakuma Camp (KE)
- Scale: Intercontinental
- Role: Regenerative Practitioner, Changemaker
- Client: UZH Digital Society Initiative / The BRIDGE Lab
- Partners: Practice partners include the InZone Program, the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies, and leading international organisations operating in humanitarian crisis contexts.
In fall 2024, I was invited to share my experiences & lessons from the field of applied regeneration in the inaugural edition of the new course Social Innvoation for Development and Sustainability by the UZH BRIDGE Lab.
Social Innovation for Development & Sustainability through HOPE
How can we generate impact through social innovation? What digital skills can we leverage to achieve sustainable development goals? What pathways can we follow to work together across cultures and sectors?
As one of the key educational activities of The BRIDGE Lab, HOPE released its project-based learning course on the topic Social Innovation for Development and Sustainability in fall 2024. The course is designed to bring together students from University of Zurich and University of Geneva, alongside refugee learners living in camps in Kenya, Niger and Jordan, to co-create technology for development (T4D) solutions for real-world challenges, during a 4-day tutorial session in a hybrid format.
My role
Beyond sharing my experiences & lessons from the field of applied regeneration, a key contribution was to actively build bridges between the privileged swiss context with the challenging situations in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya with a motivated cohort of 25 in this innovative hybrid learning format.
About
The BRIDGE Lab: Bridging the «Wisdom Gap» (BRIDGE)
Today, we live in a world of interconnected global issues of great complexity, which interlocks existing problems and supercharges power dynamics. The gap between the increasingly interconnected complexity of our problems and our inability to make sense of them is the «wisdom gap». The BRIDGE Lab offers an exploratory space to bridge this gap by addressing the challenge of «value sensitive innovation» through its strategically defined service portfolio. Project partners include key societal actors at different institutional levels, such as the Swiss federal and cantonal authorities. This project is part of of the UZH DSI Labs.
Hubs of Open and Participatory Education for Digitally Connected Learning (HOPE)
This project seeks to co-create digitally connected leaning hubs for learners to access Open Education resources and to develop sustainable and affordable innovation solutions in challenging contexts. Through inter-disciplinary and inter-cultural learning opportunities, participants across continents can meet and connect, interact and exchange, co-develop project ideas with peers, and co-produce solutions to real-world challenges facing the vulnerable populations. Project partners include the InZone Program and the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies at the University of Geneva, alongside leading international organisations operating in humanitarian crisis contexts.
Dig deeper
⬇️ Download: Course Flyer, Social Innovation for Development and Sustainability (fall 2024)
🔗 Learn more: The BRIDGE Lab, HOPE – Hubs of Open and Participatory Education for Digitally Connected Learning
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