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Advocacy is active promotion of a cause or principle;
Advocacy involves actions that lead to a selected goal; Advocacy is one of many possible strategies, ...
Learn how to study an issue, public opinion, and opposition
as part of conducting advocacy research.
Where:
SC: Sustainable Change (StoryChasing)
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D: Dissatisfaction
V: Vision of future state or condition
F: F1RST/Next steps to desired state
R: Resistance to change (inertia)
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Then: SC = D x V x F > R
Purpose:
Advancing socially responsible longer-term risk assessments
of future scenarios, without advocating ideologies or political activities.
Mission: To provide a forum for discussing alternative futures.
Vision: Get people to think about influencing their futures ...
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Values: We believe every human being shapes the future.
We respect and encourage differing world views.
Abstract:
Infrastructure systems face a number of pressing challenges relating to demographics, environment, finance and governance pressures. Furthermore, infrastructure mediates the way in which everyday lives are conducted; their form and function creating a persistence of unsustainable practice and behaviour that cannot be changed even if change is desired.
There is a need to find means by which this obduracy can be broken so that new, more sustainable futures can be planned.
This paper develops a methodology, taking concepts from both engineering and social science. Wild cards, or physical disruptions, are used to ‘destructively test’ complex infrastructure systems and the multi-level perspective is used as a framework for analysing the resulting data. This methodology was used to examine a number of case studies, and with focus groups consisting of a range of different infrastructure providers and managers, to gain a better understanding of systems’ socio-technical characteristics and behaviours.
A number of impactful ‘intervention points’ emerged that offered the opportunity to promote radical changes towards configurations of infrastructure systems that provide for ‘less’ physical infrastructure. This paper also examines the utility of wild cards as enablers of transition to these ‘less’ configurations and demonstrates how a ‘wild card scenario’ can be used to co-design infrastructure adaptation from with both infrastructure providers and users.
Are wildcard events on infrastructure systems opportunities for transformational change?
Highlights
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Wildcard events test complex infrastructure systems.
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Such can be integrated in theoretical frameworks to understand transitions.
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Qualitative examples identify intervention points in complex infrastructure systems.
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Intervention points may promote changes towards a more sustainable infrastructure.
Comments (3)
Bob-RJ Burkhart said
at 6:08 am on Jan 26, 2019
Also See Meeting Admin / Tools for Presenters: http://mnfuturist2011.pbworks.com/w/page/53138841/Tools%20for%20Presenters
Bob-RJ Burkhart said
at 7:21 am on Feb 2, 2019
BackCasting ThinkLets ... http://minnesotafuturists.pbworks.com/w/page/131717718/MNF2019-TrimTab6MetaVerse%20SCultUR02
Bob-RJ Burkhart said
at 6:04 pm on Feb 4, 2019
Are wildcard events on infrastructure systems opportunities for ...
Links. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2015.01.005 ...
Caroline Walsh; S. Glendinning; V. Castan-Broto; E. Dewberry; M. Powell ...
State, Published - 2015 ... https://goo.gl/BrW2Hw
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