"Lo scambio culturale ha come base il movimento"
Photo by Ida Castiglioni
Murale at Garibaldi Train Station, Milan, Italy
Photo by Ida Castiglioni
Murale at Garibaldi Train Station, Milan, Italy
The International Summer School is a sophisticated introductory course on sustainable human local development. It is framed within the construction of knowledge about development informed by an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective. It is a decentered participatory integrated program that recognizes the active role of all social actors.
The major theme will be that of EXPO 2015 “Nourishing the planet. Energy for Life”, together with some of the thematic lines of the UN Platform for the Millennium and the Agenda post 2015, underlining that production, distribution and consumption of food is the axis for sustainable human development.
The program focuses on three contexts of development:
Culture. People maintain identity and coordinate meaning and action in cultural groups, so change necessarily occurs in cultural context. Sustainable human development depends on equitable change efforts occurring in a climate of respect for cultural diversity. Thus, development work demands a high level of intercultural sensitivity and intercultural communication competence, and this program provides opportunities to improve those capabilities.
Consciousness. Intentional community development demands at least a critical mass of conscious individuals. These individuals are aware of context and able to think critically about how behavior is shaped by it. They can turn this awareness on itself to fashion new ways of being for themselves and for their communities. The development of this kind of consciousness in one's self and facilitating it in others is a major goal of the program.
Co-evolution. Evolution is the adaptation of an organism to a changing environment. Co-evolution is recognizing that organisms — particularly the human collective organisms of community — are self-organizing systems that simultaneously create and adapt to their environments. This program therefore avoids simplistic attempts to cause social change and instead approaches development as an exercise of intercultural cooperation.
The Summer School will take place within the KIP pavilion inside EXPO in Milan (Italy). It will benefit from the numerous opportunities of exchange with the best practices of development of countries present at the exhibition.
The major theme will be that of EXPO 2015 “Nourishing the planet. Energy for Life”, together with some of the thematic lines of the UN Platform for the Millennium and the Agenda post 2015, underlining that production, distribution and consumption of food is the axis for sustainable human development.
The program focuses on three contexts of development:
Culture. People maintain identity and coordinate meaning and action in cultural groups, so change necessarily occurs in cultural context. Sustainable human development depends on equitable change efforts occurring in a climate of respect for cultural diversity. Thus, development work demands a high level of intercultural sensitivity and intercultural communication competence, and this program provides opportunities to improve those capabilities.
Consciousness. Intentional community development demands at least a critical mass of conscious individuals. These individuals are aware of context and able to think critically about how behavior is shaped by it. They can turn this awareness on itself to fashion new ways of being for themselves and for their communities. The development of this kind of consciousness in one's self and facilitating it in others is a major goal of the program.
Co-evolution. Evolution is the adaptation of an organism to a changing environment. Co-evolution is recognizing that organisms — particularly the human collective organisms of community — are self-organizing systems that simultaneously create and adapt to their environments. This program therefore avoids simplistic attempts to cause social change and instead approaches development as an exercise of intercultural cooperation.
The Summer School will take place within the KIP pavilion inside EXPO in Milan (Italy). It will benefit from the numerous opportunities of exchange with the best practices of development of countries present at the exhibition.
The Summer School is an introduction to the International Doctoral Program in Sustainable Human Development – SHD,
which will be launched next year (see attachment).
Attendance at the Summer School will give participants preference in selection for the Doctoral Program.
which will be launched next year (see attachment).
Attendance at the Summer School will give participants preference in selection for the Doctoral Program.