Designing Systemic Practices for creating synergy between the Global Sustainability Goals The Octasynthesis Experiment Dr. Anthony Hodgson Honorary Research Fellow, cehchr
Transformative results require transformative methods
Structured for synthesis – designed process Full participation – all voices heard Scaffolding for holding complexity Emergence dialogue rather than prejudged answers Creativity and scope to play with ideas Guided by supportive facilitation Assisted by methods integrating the verbal and the visual Based on research into group collaboration CECHR
An octagonal configuration of SDGs My research and design developed a simpler method based on similar principles based on the octahedron.
Stafford Beer developed syntegration based on the icosahedron:
This is how the SDGs were allocated:RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION
RENEWABLE ENERGY SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
LIFE ON LAND
GOOD HEALTH
CLIMATE ACTION CECHR
The idea of strategic triangles Lets call each of the 6
points of the octahedron a topic node An edge of the octahedron links 2 nodes – this is the way we think of linkages A triangular face connects 3 nodes – this enriches the potential for strategic synergy
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The group interaction protocols ROUND1A
Studygoal briefing
ROUND2A
Studygoal briefing ROUND3A Studygoal briefing Allocate tonode groups
ROUND4A
ROUND1B Studygoal briefing ROUND2B Studygoal briefing ROUND3B Studygoal briefing
PHASE1 SettinguptheNodeTeam s
ROUND4B
PHASE2 W orkingthroughtheTriadicStrategies
PHASE3 HarvestingtheTriadicStrategies
PHASE4 ExperiencingtheOctasynthesis
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The dance of 4 rounds You have been allocated
a node responsibility You will track that node through all four rounds Reds and Blues will stay in the same room Yellows, Brown, Purples and Greens will switch between rounds – follow your colour. CECHR
Four rounds to explore the 8 strategic synergies Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
1A Design cities that enable people to take responsibility for consumption and energy use.
2A Reduce demand for healthcare services and reduce consumption through equitable and responsible access to improved social services and infrastructure.
3A Promote responsible consumption for healthy people and a healthy planet: ‘A little less conversation and a little more action’.
1B Cultivate nature-based wellbeing at the local level through the creation of community led ‘healthscapes’ that place prevention at the forefront of economic, ecological, and climate action.
3B Design for proactive community ownership of energy, ensuring equitable distribution and support of multiple benefits to thrive not just survive.
2B Develop infrastructure that enables communityled, bottom-up actions, supported by top-down mechanisms to integrate energy and life in order address climate impact.
Round 4
4A Reinvent how we use our land, recognising our spatial limits: consume less energy and foster more life.
4B Design cities that support responsible households to reduce their ecological footprint; and foster healthy eating and driving in cities.
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Thank you! CECHR