Resilience Frontiers
8–12 April 2019 in Songdo, South Korea
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The
Resilience Frontiers
event
marks the beginning of a
collective intelligence process on how best to respond to the deep societal transformations driven by emerging technologies and new sustainability trends, and to maximize our resilience to climate change beyond 2030.
The event will be hosted by the Government of Korea, during the
Korea Global Adaptation Week 2019
. It is an interagency effort, undertaken by the UNFCCC secretariat in collaboration with Canada’s International Development Research Centre, EIT Climate-KIC, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Global Water Partnership, the Green Climate Fund, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
.
It
will bring together
100 visionary thinkers and thought leaders
from international organizations as well as non-profit, private and academic/research entities, working across fields and disciplines all over the world.
It is organized with the advisory support of 4CF, futur/io, the gannaca global think tank group, the Hanze University of Applied Sciences and UNESCO.
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Background
Building resilience to the adverse effects of climate change requires a comprehensive approach and a long-term outlook. Yet, how can we envision the whole spectrum of future risks without considering the tenets of the fourth industrial revolution, including implications of artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, biotechnology and autonomous systems, among other drivers of change? How can we try and mitigate future risks without factoring in the possible evolution of emerging social trends powered by a sustainability ethos, such as local and organic production and consumption practices, as well as restorative design fueled by indigenous knowledge? How can we think long term without using the tools of futurists and foresight experts, and applying new skills to envision and co-create the future?
Over the course of the five days of Resilience Frontiers, 100 visionary thinkers and thought leaders will be offered a variety of tools to experiment, discuss, reflect on, and co-create visions of our common future against the backdrop of resilience. Inspired by UNESCO’s well-established Futures Literacy Laboratory action-learning framework and futur/io’s Moonshot approach, the collective intelligence process in Resilience Frontiers has been co-designed so as to maximize participants’ learning, creativity and innovation.
Objectives of the event
- Envision the evolution and implications of emerging soft and hard technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence, the internet of things, blockchain, biotechnology, autonomous systems, etc...) as well as new social trends powered by a sustainability ethos (e.g. local and organic production and consumption practices, restorative design, the revival of ancient and indigenous knowledge for nature regeneration, etc..), in shaping our future through 2030, in a world that may already be affected by enhanced impacts of climate change.
- Visualize desirable futures for climate resilience and deep dive into the potential offered by emerging technologies and social trends in enhancing the ability of our growing world population to meet its basic needs (e.g. water, food, health, human security, etc…) in a climate-resilient way, beyond 2030.
- Visualize how to reinvent or re-tool intellectual frameworks, institutional setups and support systems, e.g. in relation to finance, education and governance, in order to create an optimal environment for maximum resilience.
- Start conceiving “thought leadership streams”, to be spearheaded by interested entities in the period following the conclusion of the event, with the objective of designing policy-relevant roadmaps, pathways, or initiatives, in order to address priority cross-cutting themes that will have emanated organically from the collective intelligence process.
Follow up
Interested entities, including relevant UN agencies and international organizations, will be engaged to spearhead the above mentioned thought leadership streams and design policy-relevant roadmaps, pathways, or initiatives.
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Day 1 - Monday 8 April
Morning
Opening of the Korea Global Adaptation Week
Opening of Resilience Frontiers
Afternoon
Visualizing probable futures under the impact of the fourth industrial revolution
- Working groups envision the evolution and implications of emerging technologies, as well as new social trends towards sustainability, as drivers shaping our future by 2030 in a climate-changed world
- Cross fertilization
- Plenary discussion
Day 2 - Tuesday 9 April
Morning
Envisioning desirable futures in a climate-resilient world
- Moonshot approach: Working groups visualize desirable futures in a climate-resilient world, and deep dive into the opportunities and challenges arising from the discussions on drivers of change, in meeting the basic needs of the world population beyond 2030 in a climate-resilient way
Afternoon
Reframing the mind to rethink the future
- Learning intensive society approach: Working groups identify gaps in their visions as well as assumptions and biases, and question how they think about the future
- Exhibition of sculptures and cards from the future
- World café
Day 3 - Wednesday 10 April
Morning
Disrupting general assumptions and biases about the future
- Stranger futures approach: Working groups deep dive into challenging their own assumptions and biases on both probable and desirable visions of the future
- Cross fertilization
- Plenary discussion
Afternoon
Exploring new desirable futures in a climate-resilient world
- Working groups expand the “visions of desirable futures in a climate-resilient world” that materialized through the Moonshot approach on day 2
- Working groups subsequently open up their exploration of the future to include intellectual frameworks, institutional setups and support systems that would be part of new desirable futures in a climate-resilient world
- Formulation of novel questions triggered by the visions and reflections on the new desirable futures
- Plenary discussion
Day 4 - Thursday 11 April
Morning
Reinventing the enabling environment for transformative resilience
- Moonshot approach: Working groups visualize how to transform, reinvent or re-tool intellectual frameworks, institutional setups and support systems, in order to create an optimal enabling environment for climate-resilience
Afternoon
- Three-minute film shooting and presentations
- Plenary discussion
- Identification of cross-cutting themes to be investigated by the thought leadership streams
Day 5 - Friday 12 April
Morning
Conceiving policy-relevant thought leadership streams
- Working groups start designing thought leadership streams to be spearheaded by consortia of interested entities to elaborate policy-relevant roadmaps, pathways, or initiatives that would address priority cross-cutting themes arising from the event
- World café
Closing of Resilience Frontiers
Afternoon
Closing of the Korea Global Adaptation Week
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