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NatGeo - The Future of Learning, The Future of our Planet: Request for Proposals
Our world is facing big, complex, and rapidly changing environmental and societal challenges.
Regardless of what the future may hold, learners will need support to develop capacities to learn about, care for and take action to protect our world.
Building the future we want for our planet and its people involves designing for that future today.
The National Geographic Society is supporting projects or research that imagine and enact the future of learning, cultivating in learners of any age and in any context the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to take action in ways that benefit the planet and its people.
National Geographic - The Future of Learning, The Future of our Planet: Request for Proposals
Quoted terms for explication:
"learners will need support to develop capacities to learn about, care for and take action to protect our world."
Outline what this support consists in/of.
Outline what this care for consists in/of.
Outline what this taking action consists in/of.
Link all three to forms of protection & how this protection should/may/will occur.
Outline how all of these capacities & skills will be developed, supported & applied - learning to learners; support for learners/learning; capacities developed in learners/ learning; how support & capacities are attached to caring & taking action for our world & its protection.
"Building the future we want for our planet and its people involves designing for that future today."
How to design & build the future for our planet with today`s plans & planning.
Education: vocational & scholarly as combined form of enacted planning.
"The National Geographic Society is supporting projects or research that imagine and enact the future of learning, cultivating in learners of any age and in any context the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to take action in ways that benefit the planet and its people."
Biodiversity
climate
community projects
conservation
individuals
partnerships/collaboration
water
wildlife
worldwide.
The United Nations refers to “a process where community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems”.
GD
Eye Of The Sahara - Richat Structure.
Connections
What to know & how?
National Geographic plan/Irisz -
Reliable; networker; drafting & evaluating applications; organizer.
Nat.Geo. `where education meets exploration` (NG) - interactive, interdisciplinary documentary series - offline to online transition, interact with the materials/audio-visual element; 3D models, gaming, music - independent exploration with co-operation for YPs; camps for challenges - problem-solving examples - energy; food - Eco-System of Solutions (ESOS) * - great if they innovate, but they are not expected to (no pressure).
* Easy accessible database to a sustainability solution - physical & digital parts. Standout/USP - collection of/summary of ESOS (GD) - dialogue of solutions; good examples of this which include * GD will add example later (Drawdown Explorer) reference Venus Project (Circular Economy Principles). Cornwall example of Eden Project (JK).
`illuminate & protect the wonder of our world` (NG) - GD David Attenborough example - 3D; voluntary projects which are more easily available through - a) travel b) immersive 3D online.
*** Link to eco-literacy (extant term) for sub-category of writing - formal & informal - workshops & forms of teaching; activities - creating; carving; various model-building, etc.
`We view education as both a discipline & a practice. We define education as the process & methods of teaching & learning where learners of any age acquire & cultivate attitutudes, skills & knowledge.` (NG)
So, focus on skills as knowledge & knowledge as skills (JK). Tools spritual; physical, intellectutal, practical (GD).
`Attitude` cultivation - succeeding, not giving in, not giving up, giving back hope, that it`s not too late - try again.
Motivation - conditions for change. GD example of what we purchase, consumption, making a difference, supply-change.
Expansive. De-growth model.
`MSGA` (GD)
ACW: Awareness; Consciousness; Wisdom (KM)
`Reintroducting humanity to its natural environment`(KM)
Norby:
Topography:
Hill - steep, progression of houses, houses climb hill
Elevation: 500m
River in the background
Preciptation: climate, humidity changes
Elements:
Soil: similar - clay, drainage, digging down/up
Materials: brick, concrete, wooden sheds/houses
Materials are brought up the hill, no local quarrying, wood - local?
One, new, beautiful wooden home, plus Norby`s home - mix. Proposed future projects?
Services solutions are - rainwater; cisterns; solar; wooden roofs; ceramic plates; other unknown structures?
OBVAVI
Project Summary
My proposal is to combine solarpunk culture sustainability as a reality, a perma-culture (agro-forestry), to design individuality by default, to revive community-building by-and-through the use of abandoned land and its reclamation (upcycling) to extend and revitalize the eco-village concept using a dormant to manifest fertility formulation as a practical and pragmatic form of revitilization. In order to provide a continuous and accessible flow of resources, such projects are in vivo and in situ organic entities will require commercial business planning - aims and o bjectives with value transactions as forms of investment.
create a collaboration of systems and resources (extant), whilst creating new systems and resources which are purpose-specific and context-relevant. This system and attached set of resources will also serve as a collective knowledge-base which can be accessed - an open and transparent, distributed, individualisable, immutable/mutable collection of structures. The core idea is one of intangibility (there are endless tangible versions of intangibility *), but the way it would be used or through which interaction takes place is tangible. Individualized search-space is mutable - meaning individualized operationability.
Look at Innovation Fund - All
Horizon Europe programme - later
Digital Europe Programme - A and meeting the E.U`s Green Transition & Digital Transformation objectives.
Three STEP strategic sectors: digital technologies and deep-tech innovation, clean and resource-efficient technologies and biotechnologies.
Project preparation of concepts and ideas, leading to the final proposal.
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