MAKING SUSTAINABLE LIVING EASY – CO-CREATING SUSTAINABLE FUTURES THROUGH GLOBAL DIALOGUE

 

With the aim of making sustainability easy, improving lives for all, the CSCP launched a series of events named the “Workstudios”. These multi-stakeholder events combine keynote speeches, TED-style panelists, visioning workshops, strategic planning and match-making activities in a one or two day agenda for groups from 30 to 100 people.

 

The Workstudios seek to engage representatives of various societal sectors, such as policy-makers, business, academia, and individuals interested on the topic of Sustainable Lifestyles and support them in their efforts towards leading change for living more sustainably.

In order to make this possible, the Workstudios intend to bring creativity to strategic action planning through visualizing what a sustainable future means for our everyday lives, and the decisions and trade-offs that we will face.

 

Visioning Workshops – a key to action planning

 

Engaging different stakeholders in the co-creation of visions of  desirable futures, is an important step in our transition to more sustainable ways of living for all .  In the workstudios participants are taken on a journey to the future where they will take an imaginative leap into several different scenarios of everyday life in the future, where lifestyles support societies of people living well within the resources limits of one planet.

 

The  visioning sessions help participants to develop a common understanding of the forces that can shape a more sustainable future. Participants can engage in futuresthinking, using immersive tools that challenge assumptions and deepen understanding about the evolving dynamics that will drive consumer behavior over the next several decades.

 

Vision 2050 sessions are part of our workstudio agendas, and can also be run as stand-alone workshops and in combination with other activities.

 

Further, faster, together…

 

The agenda of the Workstudios is tailored to the context of the participating stakeholders and the topics most relevant to each audience. Our way of working in the workstudios invites the sharing of different perspectives,  experiences and ideas with the aim to ‘co-create’ new visions of more sustainable futures that are also relevant for the majority of people across societies.

  

The Workstudios are prepared and delivered in collaboration with partner organizations, governments and businesses.  To date we have worked with organizations such as the European Environment Agency, GeSI, Nokia, Deutsche Telekom and the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. Here are some examples:

 

• World Economic Forum, Davos, January 2011
• World Business Council for Sustainable Development & European Environment Agency, Brussels, March 2011
• UNCSD, New York, May 2011
• Future of Sustainable Lifestyles and Entrepreneurship, Hürth, May 2011
• UN gathering of CSOs, Bonn, September, 2011
• GS1, New Business Models exploration, Bonn, October 2011
• Nokia, Deutsche Telekom , Instituto Akatu - Sao Paulo, March 2012. Output document
• European Environment Agency, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Copenhagen, 2012
• GeSI, Berlin, May 2012. Output document

 

Workstudios for the Budding Ideas Glocally for 2050 project and Business Innovation for Sustainable Scale-up are planed for 2012.

 

The Workstudios and visioning workshops are some of the various tools and methodologies the CSCP and its partners develop towards strengthening the Global Network on Sustainable Lifestyles.