Speaker: Sabrina Schork
We know from former research that we need to develop self-effective individuals and self-organized groups that think and act sustainably as well as digital. The need to transform our society into a pro-actively shaping one that stays resilient (optimistic, solution-oriented, self-responsible, networked, and future shaping) in an unstable, volatile, ambidextrous, and complex hybrid world combining virtual and physical realities, is very high. Since students will be the shapers of the future of nations, they should be the focus of the higher education program which will be co-created during the T-Practice and focuses on the education of sustainable innovators.
Transdisciplinary research methods that have proven successful in transformation processes are used. Politicians, practitioners, different scientific disciplines as well as students and teachers are invited. These can register for the T-Practice in advance. Between 30-60 people can participate in the 1.5-hour World Café format.
Depending on the number of registrations, there will be one or two runs in the 1.5 hours (30-minute run for 30 registrations; 15-minute run for 60 registrations). Each group will consist of a maximum of ten people and will be mixed trans- and interdisciplinary. The groups will build on their respective developed outcomes. There are three stations. There is a facilitator at each station who introduces the method, accompanies the process and documents the results. At Station 1, the groups use Brainpainting to build the ideal environment for a trans- and interdisciplinary educational program for sustainable innovators at higher education institutions. At Station 2, the participants decide on the three to five most important transformational competencies that need to be trained in Sustainable Innovators Training and how this can work. Input is provided by a competency wall that draws from a variety of studies. At Station 3, the groups select machine skills, digital applications, and characteristics of role models or teachers that must be present in any case in Sustainable Innovator Training. Again, there are input walls to choose from.
A cameraperson records emotion-driven video sequences with different zoom perspectives from the group work. The person edits a video together after the workshop, shared via YouTube and the conference website. Enrollees can download the T-Practice results from the cloud.
In summary, the T-Practice will mainly generate knowledge about Transformative Learning and proportionately about Transformative Leadership and Transformative Innovations.
The results will be used to set up a living laboratory, which can be used worldwide in cooperation with transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary partners.