Skip to 0 minutes and 13 seconds LUKE HEEMSBERGEN: Our course is set on the arts of changing the world. We look at global challenges, like climate change and inequality or identity-based politics when living in a post-truth world, and consider how communities might respond. Our claim is that to develop useful organisational strategies for dealing with local impacts of global challenges, we must consider how systems that we live amidst can be changed in ways unique to and led through community collaboration. Change isn’t easy. And we don’t have all the answers. But in the next three weeks, you’ll engage with how to ask the right questions with the right types of partnerships to make the right types of difference.
Skip to 1 minute and 5 seconds While the challenges we look at are global, we start the unit with the very local, a review of you.
Skip to 1 minute and 11 seconds DAVID GILES: We consider what identity is, and how it comes to be. Your identity and those you identify with matter. There’s power in knowing identities. And even more in constructing them. Today’s pertinent social and political question is as much, who is being constructed and by whom? As it is, what is to be done?
Skip to 1 minute and 32 seconds LUKE HEEMSBERGEN: We hope you enjoy this introduction to the content and are confronted with how difficult the task ahead of us is. The organisational implications of ongoing global challenges require new strategies for collaboration. By the end of our three weeks together, we’ll have some insight to how we might go about this.
