Elementor #2121

Bridging and bonding

This theme emphasizes collaborative community engagement and participatory methods and processes. It focuses on how multiple knowledge systems, world views, and social-ecological norms influence the conceptualization and implementation of sustainability initiatives.

Contributions could address aspects of participatory governance, including community projects, leadership within networks, enabling change agents, and capacity-exchange programs that support community participation. We especially encourage submissions that showcase South-South dialogue and that foreground indigenous and local knowledge systems.

Specific topics could include participatory methods for visioning and collaboration, confronting issues of colonization, and achieving equity in knowledge co-production across marine and terrestrial social-ecological systems. Art-science and other inter and trans-disciplinary collaborations are especially welcomed.

Transformative culture and learning

This theme explores the critical role of cultural narratives, imaginative approaches, and innovative educational practices in driving sustainability transformations. It emphasizes the integration of inner transformations, well-being, and leadership development in shaping values and norms that support transformative change from local to global levels.

Contributions can address methods for fostering a culture of sustainability, including participatory visioning and pathway development, storytelling, and creative problem-solving. Key topics include transformative learning methods, educational innovations, lifelong learning, art and media, decolonial praxis, and scaling successful practices appropriately. Additionally, it covers ensuring inclusion and access for under-represented communities and knowledge systems, acknowledging the ‘dark side’ of transformation processes.

Disruptive change

This theme examines the rapid and often disruptive nature of technological, cultural, political and economic changes and their implications for sustainability transformations. It invites presentations and innovative sessions exploring strategies to combat the negative impacts of technological developments as well as ways to harness disruptive changes in ways that can foster transformations to benefit all segments of society, including marginalized groups.

Examples of possible topics include managing the impacts of Al and machine learning on the environment and communities, integrating systems sensing for navigating eco-social crises, technology for improved data monitoring and transparency, and governance strategies for developing and deploying smart technologies. Economic innovation is also included here, such as sustainable finance models and new ways to address the economic impacts of technological adoption.

Governance and multilateralism under pressure

This theme invites contributions on the relationship between democracy and sustainability transformations and the mechanisms to bolster innovative democratic processes, enhance multilateral cooperation, and develop governance models that support sustainability and address power dynamics.

Topics include innovative pathways for transformation, such as strategies to navigate political challenges and resource constraints, and generating knowledge and processes for justly and equitably implementing global environmental agreements like the Paris Agreement and the Global Biodiversity Framework.

Emphasis is placed on citizen engagement and participatory democracy, as well as effective legal and policy interventions and governance frameworks that bring together diverse stakeholders across all scales.

Bridging and bonding

This theme emphasizes collaborative community engagement and participatory methods and processes. It focuses on how multiple knowledge systems, world views, and social-ecological norms influence the conceptualization and implementation of sustainability initiatives.

Contributions could address aspects of participatory governance, including community projects, leadership within networks, enabling change agents, and capacity-exchange programs that support community participation. We especially encourage submissions that showcase South-South dialogue and that foreground indigenous and local knowledge systems.

Specific topics could include participatory methods for visioning and collaboration, confronting issues of colonization, and achieving equity in knowledge co-production across marine and terrestrial social-ecological systems. Art-science and other inter and trans-disciplinary
collaborations are especially welcomed.

Transformative culture and learning

This theme explores the critical role of cultural narratives, imaginative approaches, and innovative educational practices in driving sustainability transformations. It emphasizes the integration of inner transformations, well-being, and leadership development in shaping values and norms that support transformative change from local to global levels.

Contributions can address methods for fostering a culture of sustainability, including participatory visioning and pathway development, storytelling, and creative problem-solving. Key topics include transformative learning methods, educational innovations, lifelong learning, art and media, decolonial praxis, and scaling successful practices appropriately. Additionally, it covers ensuring inclusion and access for under-represented communities and knowledge systems, acknowledging the ‘dark side’ of transformation processes.

Disruptive change

This theme examines the rapid and often disruptive nature of technological, cultural, political and economic changes and their implications for sustainability transformations. It invites presentations and innovative sessions exploring strategies to combat the negative impacts of technological developments as well as ways to harness disruptive changes in ways that can foster transformations to benefit all segments of society, including marginalized groups.

Examples of possible topics include managing the impacts of Al and machine learning on the environment and communities, integrating systems sensing for navigating eco-social crises, technology for improved data monitoring and transparency, and governance strategies for developing and deploying smart technologies. Economic innovation is also included here, such as sustainable finance models and new ways to address the economic impacts of technological adoption.

Governance and multilateralism under pressure

This theme invites contributions on the relationship between democracy and sustainability transformations and the mechanisms to bolster innovative democratic processes, enhance multilateral cooperation, and develop governance models that support sustainability and address power dynamics.

Topics include innovative pathways for transformation, such as strategies to navigate political challenges and resource constraints, and generating knowledge and processes for justly and equitably implementing global environmental agreements like the Paris Agreement and the Global Biodiversity Framework.

Emphasis is placed on citizen engagement and participatory democracy, as well as effective legal and policy interventions and governance frameworks that bring together diverse stakeholders across all scales.

Bridging and bonding

This theme emphasizes collaborative community engagement and participatory methods and processes. It focuses on how multiple knowledge systems, world views, and social-ecological norms influence the conceptualization and implementation of sustainability initiatives.

Contributions could address aspects of participatory governance, including community projects, leadership within networks, enabling change agents, and capacity-exchange programs that support community participation. We especially encourage submissions that showcase South-South dialogue and that foreground indigenous and local knowledge systems.

Specific topics could include participatory methods for visioning and collaboration, confronting issues of colonization, and achieving equity in knowledge co-production across marine and terrestrial social-ecological systems. Art-science and other inter and trans-disciplinary
collaborations are especially welcomed.

Transformative culture and learning

This theme explores the critical role of cultural narratives, imaginative approaches, and innovative educational practices in driving sustainability transformations. It emphasizes the integration of inner transformations, well-being, and leadership development in shaping values and norms that support transformative change from local to global levels.

Contributions can address methods for fostering a culture of sustainability, including participatory visioning and pathway development, storytelling, and creative problem-solving. Key topics include transformative learning methods, educational innovations, lifelong learning, art and media, decolonial praxis, and scaling successful practices appropriately. Additionally, it covers ensuring inclusion and access for under-represented communities and knowledge systems, acknowledging the ‘dark side’ of transformation processes.

Disruptive change

This theme examines the rapid and often disruptive nature of technological, cultural, political and economic changes and their implications for sustainability transformations. It invites presentations and innovative sessions exploring strategies to combat the negative impacts of technological developments as well as ways to harness disruptive changes in ways that can foster transformations to benefit all segments of society, including marginalized groups.

Examples of possible topics include managing the impacts of Al and machine learning on the environment and communities, integrating systems sensing for navigating eco-social crises, technology for improved data monitoring and transparency, and governance strategies for developing and deploying smart technologies. Economic innovation is also included here, such as sustainable finance models and new ways to address the economic impacts of technological adoption.

Governance and multilateralism under pressure

This theme invites contributions on the relationship between democracy and sustainability transformations and the mechanisms to bolster innovative democratic processes, enhance multilateral cooperation, and develop governance models that support sustainability and address power dynamics.

Topics include innovative pathways for transformation, such as strategies to navigate political challenges and resource constraints, and generating knowledge and processes for justly and equitably implementing global environmental agreements like the Paris Agreement and the Global Biodiversity Framework.

Emphasis is placed on citizen engagement and participatory democracy, as well as effective legal and policy interventions and governance frameworks that bring together diverse stakeholders across all scales.