Leila Rahimi Bahmany’s Post

With a new operating-systems for humanity tuned to promote the expanding value of our differences over the narrowing purview of our stifling commonalities.

With a new operating-systems for humanity tuned to promote the expanding value of our differences over the narrowing purview of our stifling commonalities.

With a new operating-systems for humanity tuned to promote the expanding value of our differences over the narrowing purview of our stifling commonalities.

It's wonderful to see this new framework for evaluating creative practice within the context of societal transformation, and to trace the roots back to the 'looking back and looking forward' values-centred evaluation workshop that I ran with FURTHERFIELD.ORG in 2021. I wish I'd discovered this paper six weeks ago, so I could have included it in the set of frameworks that I presented to third-year #EncounteringEcosystems students as possible templates for their #MetaLearningMaps. In the Encountering Ecosystems module, students explored a wide range of data collection methods - both qualitative and quantitative - as ways of engaging more deeply with local habitats and the species that live there. Their final assessment was to submit a creative product for exhibition in our onsite gallery, accompanied by a text for the exhibition catalogue. (If you're curious to see what they produced, the exhibition starts on 22nd April at our East London campus, and free tickets for the private view can be booked here: https://lnkd.in/dn9FHgeC). We also asked them to provide a meta-learning map - a visual reflection of their learning on the module, based on a specified framework of concepts and/or competencies. We gave them a variety of different templates to choose from - including the #InnerDevelopmentGoals, The Social Change Agency's infographic on 'Characteristics of a Systems Thinker' (thanks Joss Colchester for flagging that one), the beautiful 'Capabilities for Wayfinders' framework recently shared on LinkedIn by Sahana Chattopadhyay, and The RSA (The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce) 'Principles of Regenerative Design' by Josie Warden, among others. This paper is especially exciting because, like the module itself, it targets the interface between creative practice and learning for eco-social transformation. I've already added it to the resource list for next year, and look forward to seeing some students using it as a starting point for their reflections!

Fascinating transdiciplinary approach to evaluating creative practices that help stimulate action towards socially and ecologically sustainable futures. 💡 Creative practices can stimulate changing meanings 1. Embodying: Creative practices may focus on new ways of embodying which allows for people individually and together to tap into the full intelligence of the body, the senses, and experience to engage with the full complexity of life and understand different realities first-hand. 2. Learning: Creative practices offer unique opportunities for learning. Deep assumptions and worldviews can be questioned through creative practice; and new ways of seeing, being and doing can be learned. 3: Imagining: Creative practices can help in imagining different futures in ways that can be vivid, emotionally resonant and challenging; and imagination is a component in all change actions. 💡Creative practices can help change connections 4. Caring: New ways of caring for each other and the world open up the safety, support and empathy needed for better futures, as well as for finding the energy and courage to work toward them together. 5: Organising: Complementing care are the ways in which creative practices might stimulate new ways of organising – new communities, networks and support structures that can help create change. 6. Inspiring: Creative practices can be core to inspiring action way beyond their immediate interactions by providing emotional energy, ideas and examples. 💡Finally, creative practices can help stimulate changes in power 7. Co-creating: Through the co-creating of creative works, people can harness the power of creative practice to imagine new futures together; to learn new skills, to understand each other's perspectives, to define problems, and more. 8. Empowering: Creative practices can be empowering by raising and strengthening voices and perspectives in systems that normally don’t have any space for them; and people can find new sources of agency and power personally through creative practices. 9. Subverting: Since it is not enough to only build new systems and many current systems have to be dismantled, creative practices can also be used for subverting, symbolically but also practically, broken existing systems and ways of doing things. Might be of interest Gillian Vesty and Jonathan Kolieb (serious games), Janneke Blijlevens and Meg Elkins

So grateful to Creative Knowledge Resources for affirming the work that I do by giving me space to do more of it. Collective and creative knowledge  production is important now more than ever as we try to contend  with rising inequality and authoritarianism , shrinking civic space and rampant ecological devestation. https://lnkd.in/dEmZuMEm

With a new operating-systems for humanity tuned to promote the expanding value of our differences over the narrowing purview of our stifling commonalities.

💡 Experts play a crucial role in informing policy decisions around health, climate, technology, infrastructure, energy and many other important topics. The world is increasingly reliant on specialised knowledge and scientific evidence, and #trust in experts is crucial for development and wellbeing. However, deep uncertainties in the face of a multitude of crises are casting doubt on the very idea of #expertise. 🌍 The Europe-wide Horizon Europe #PERITIA project, led by Prof Maria Baghramian at University College Dublin, set out to investigate and understand the conditions that affect trust in expert opinion. 👩🔬 One of the most positive findings was that levels of trust in science & scientists remain quite high in most countries surveyed, and in Ireland especially. This contrasted with low levels of trust in politicians & politics. Project outputs including the PERITIA podcast and online Trustworthiness Toolkit have reached more than 2 million people, informing public debate and policy, and helping foster trust in experts. The project was a Finalist in the UCD Research Impact Case Study Competition. Read more: https://lnkd.in/d-d6NdhZ UCD College of Social Sciences and Law Royal Irish Academy ALLEA – The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities Programme Horizon Europe Shane Bergin Jenny Knell Professor Rowland Stout https://lnkd.in/dse2e95D

Sharing this amazing research, sharp and generous analysis, and useful fraemwork: 9 Dimensions for evaluating how art and creative practice stimulate societal transformations. Thanks Ruth Catlow for forwarding.