Cluster: Regenerative Agency Cluster

Competence: Problem Framing

Module title: Exploring Ecologies of Technology to Design Collective Agency and Intelligence in a More-than-Human World

ECTS credit points: 4 

Workload in hours: 100

EQF-level: 5-6

Course Objective

The module involves the ability to reframe relationships between self and world in regenerative terms and includes awareness of a variety of relevant approaches and methods, and terminologies. It is inspired by a more-than-human view of the complex entanglements (interdependencies) between self and world and based on a series of complementary design exercises (that are themselves tangible examples of a triple loop approach: activity > analysis > action).

Description

The cluster regenerative agency structures the course consisting of five different modules, each of them corresponding to the development of a specific competence.The five competences have been predefined in co-creation with the rest of the Consortium. Each of the modules will have ten lessons that are being planned to be taught in a face-to-face situation of learning groups of no more than 25 learners. 

Modules & Key Topics

• Module 1 – Self-awareness & Empathy
  • It involves understanding one’s place in a more-than-human world and the capacity to make informed decisions that are aligned with the need for economic, cultural, and ecological regeneration
• Module 2 – Ethical and sustainable thinking
  • It involves understanding that concepts of ethics and justice have an ecological dimension that includes thinking about multispecies relations and the complexity of their (social) interactions. Understanding how regenerative and sustainable actions have the power to affect future generations (human and more-than-human) and being familiar with frameworks that support regenerative/ecological thinking and acting.
• Module 3 – Problem Framing
  • The cluster involves the ability to reframe relationships between self and worldin regenerative terms and includes awareness of a variety of relevant approaches and methods, and terminologies. It is inspired bya more-than-human view of the complex entanglements (interdependencies) between self and world and based on a series of complementary design exercises (that are themselves tangible examples of a triple loop approach: activity > analysis > action.
• Module 4 – Exploratory Thinking
  • It involves having an exploratory interest in creative, structural, social and technical ways of acting democratically and holistic.
  • It involves awareness of precautionary principle (act now to avoid future negative impact), a positive attitude toward fact-based analyses (interest in how evidence / factuality / trust is determined), awareness that fairness / inclusion requires knowledge of all stakes / perspectives involved / affected; awareness of differences between potential (thinkable) / possible (doable) / likely (realistic) futures
• Module 5 – Actionable Futures
  • It involves designing for impact in a competence ecosystem (sites of learning and sites of engagement)
  • It implies the knowledge of how diversity can become a strength, knowledge that human action may have unpredictable / uncertain consequences, and awareness of relevant laws / policies affect spaces of engagement (and make possible specific actions)