📍Hybrid | 🗓️ Starting 6 October 2023 | ⌛ 3-months | ⏱️ 8-10 hours per week

Modern leaders need a new kind of Education.

At LIS, we’re building the world’s leading interdisciplinary university for 21st century leaders.

Understand the interconnected crises in climate, biodiversity, and pollution. Identify the opportunities and solutions for you to make an impact.

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Our curated faculty

Dr Ash Brockwell

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Dr Anson Cheung

Dr Amelia Peterson

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Lara Kinneir

Learning outcomes

By the end of this programme you will be able to:

Programme outline

The programme will include self-paced learning that participants should complete ahead of weekly interactive online workshops to work with peers to apply it in their context. The self-paced learning will take 2-4 hours per week and each workshop will last 90-mins.

In addition to the online workshops there will be two immersive on campus days at the start and end of the programme, running 10am-4pm.

Week 1

The Big and Complex picture

• ‘How everything connects’
• ‘The bath analogy and Net Zero’
• ‘Ecological relationships’
• ‘Complexity’

🧑‍💻 Workshop 1: Net Zero v carbon neutral, offsetting, how to zoom in and out.

Week 2

Mindshifts

• ‘Introduction to mindshifts’
• ‘Separation to interconnectedness’
• ‘Monoculture to diversity’
• ‘Individual to collective’
• ‘Rigidity to adaptation’
• ‘Linear to circular’
• ‘Futures Literacy’

🧑‍💻 Workshop 2: Apply a futures literacy approach to discuss how we can facilitate conversations around these mindshifts. Possible and preferable futures - climate justice / racial / reparative justice and decolonisation.

Week 3

The circular economy

• ‘Technical and biological cycles’
• ‘Cradle to crade manufacturing’
• ‘Economies of cycle’
• ‘Food’

🧑‍💻 Workshop 3: details TBC

Week 4

Finance and Investment

• ‘Rethinking economics’
• ‘Economies of cycle’
• ‘Rigidity to adaptation’
• ‘Linear to circular’
• ‘Futures Literacy’

🧑‍💻 Workshop 4: details TBC

Week 5

Buildings and transport

• ‘Materials’
• ‘Form’
• ‘Function’
• ‘Case Study: 150 Holborn’
• ‘Transport’

🧑‍💻 Workshop 5: details TBC

Week 6

Consolidation

• ‘Making sense of where we’ve got to’
• ‘Preparing to write your strategic plan’
• On-site reflection on decolonial practice

🧑‍💻 Workshop 6: Net Zero v carbon neutral, offsetting, how to zoom in and out.

Week 7

Making change: individuals

• ‘Reflection on personal norms and expectations’
• ‘Introduction to the concept of norms and institutions’
• ‘Norms and institutions at different scales’
• ‘How do i convinve myself (and others) to change?’

🧑‍💻 Workshop 7: details TBC

Week 8

Making change: organisations

• ‘Case Study (Southern Africa)’
• ‘Brands and Semiotics’
• ‘Dan Gray and ESG’