Creative Sustainability - Expert Lab
Activating the role of Nature in the Creative Process for a Sustainable Transformation
About this Expert Lab
We need to embrace creative sustainability to tackle climate change, social inequalities and design new economic and business models and ways of living for the New Reality; and, above all, because we are not doing enough for protecting the environment.
This Expert Lab provides a practice-oriented, holistic and future-fit introduction to connecting creativity and sustainability for individuals, organisations and societies. The Expert Lab investigates how we can embrace the power of nature to rethink entire ecosystems, value-chains, business models and ways of living.
The course follows a journey from the individual immersion in nature to embedding nature as part of the creative process to tackle key challenges such as climate change, social inclusion and economic development; it presents case studies from across Europe and beyond from multiple actors (cities, corporations, networks and NGOs, etc.).
Who is this Expert Lab for?
This course is for professionals (and, of course, anyone interested in the topic!) with an active interest embracing sustainability as a mindset to foster a sustainable transformation in a practical and tangible way. Whether you work in the public or private sector, a corporation or start-up, and NGO, a foundation, network or civil society platform, this course will give you the skills to generate and implement innovative ideas to embed creative sustainability into business and organisational models, services and products design and into your very own creative lifestyle.
By participating in this Expert Lab you will
- Gain increased knowledge about Creative Sustainability principles and policies, and concepts and use cases in the context of SDGs (with a focus on European Union).
- Identify and assess challenges and opportunities when designing Sustainability policies and action plans.
- Critically assess how Creative Sustainability can support individual fulfilment and development (at work and at personal level), business and organisational models and regional development; and assess its role in creating policies, value chains, products and services fully sustainable.
Schedule, Content and Time Commitment
The course is designed over ‘4 Steps/Weeks’, and each step/week consists of a series of Learning Activities in 4 different, but connected, themes regarding Creative Sustainability. However the course is self-paced, so you can manage your own learning journey.
The Learning Activities consist of 4 Steps/Weeks, which are presented as a variety of videos, podcasts, articles, reports, interactive tools and quizzes that reflect the learning topic for the different steps.
Expert Lab Credits
Antonio Carlos Ruiz Soria / Course concept and learning design / Course content creation and management / Instructor
Justyna Molendowska-Ruiz / Course content contributor / Marketing, dissemination and engagement.
Your Instructor
Antonio Carlos is an economist and creative thinker-doer expert in creativity, digitisation and sustainability. With more than fourteen years experience in creativity and innovation consulting, research and capacity building gained working with/for major institutions and companies, with field work experience in 17 countries; and fully established expertise delivering hybrid-digital consultancy globally for over a decade. He has spoken and delivered keynotes, conferences, lectures and contributed to expert panels at international symposiums and high level events for Universities and institutions such as the European Commission, in Spain, UK, Germany, France, Poland, Belgium, Ukraine, among other countries.
This consulting experience, together with key publications he has (co)authored, such as the research report Mapping Creativity in the European Union: the role of Human Development, Digitisation and Sustainability and the Essay Creative Sustainability. Activating the role of nature in the creative process for resilient and dynamic ecosystems, provide the theoretical and know-how expertise from which he has designed this course.
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