This is the first public event by the thematic research group RESULTS (see below). It's open to all, and after the lecture you are all welcome to a conversation at the cafe in the same building.
About the lecture
The pace and scale of climate change is like nothing before, and we need to rapidly learn how to navigate the change as well as hold space for others to help them come to terms with the enormity of the change that is upon us. Accepting we are in a transformation is an important starting point. We also need to be able to envision radically different, possible, futures. To help those futures to emerge we will need to come to our senses.
In this talk, professor Ioan Fazey will discuss how coming to our senses can help us develop greater capacity to be more collaborative and compassionate; engage with practical wisdom; help embody paradigms based on care rather than control; and experience regeneration. At the end of the world as we know it, coming to our senses can help us develop the hospices for the old world and the midwifery we need for the new.
Lecturer
Ioan Fazey is Professor of the Social Dimensions of Environment and Change and Director of Strategy for the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York, UK. His research, teaching and facilitation focuses on helping develop know how and capacity for stewarding transformations to regenerative futures and how deep changes in individuals, organisations and society can be supported so that we are better aligned to our rapidly changing world. Ioan has over 80 research publications in resilience, transformation, change and sustainability and on how our knowledge systems – universities, research institutes – can transform to support wider societal change.
Se Fazey's profile page at the University of York.
What’s missing in current approaches to transformations to sustainability? Why is knowledge not leading to action and results?
The thematic research group RESULTS – Research for Energy and Sustainability Transformations, led by Karen O'Brien at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography and Arve Hansen at the Centre for Development and the Environment, will develop research and capacity for understanding sustainability transformations in response to the complex global challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss.
See the RESULTS webpage.