Creating sustainable futures/CSF102/Understanding the challenge/Overview

Ultimately, we need to design a future for our society that is aligned with the principles for life. By understanding the current unsustainable paradigm and the design flaws that perpetuate it, we can begin to envision a future that is designed for life to flourish and focus our attention on allowing that future to emerge. This section will help you understand the current paradigm, the impacts that are arising, and how to identify them so that we can understand the ‘gap’ between the current situation (baseline) and the desired future. This gap reveals a creative tension that can be used to identify and prioritise solutions to reach the desired vision of the future.

ABCD method

Objectives

During this learning pathway you will:

• Learn about the Funnel model to understand and conceptualise the shift from unsustainability to sustainability and a restorative future.
• Understand that we have planetary boundaries.
• Learn about our Ecological footprint as a measure of impact.
• Learn about our Hand print as a measure of restorative value.