SOCIO-CULTURAL FUTURES MODULES

GS-CF Module 1 - City Futures

Rapid Urbanisation & Urban Transformation. Module 1 (Lessons 1-4) introduces you to rapid urbanisation and associated challenges: ghettoisation and the loss of agricultural land. The key drivers of “old urbanisation” were industrialisation and globalisation, both motivated by economic growth. The drivers of the new urbanism include sustainability, and the creativity to build cities that value people and planet over profit. We explore why ‘smart cities’ are not always high-tech; how ‘post-industrial’ design can rejuvenate the ghost towns of the industrial era; and the growth in eco-villages, and renewable energy cities. Click the image to ENROL.

GS-CF Module 2 - Human Futures

Cultural Exclusion & Cultural Diversity. Module 2 (Lessons 5-8) explores the entrenched challenges of inequality in human culture, such as racism, gender inequality, and ageism including the rights of future generations. The dominant ideologies of neoliberalism and globalisation are explored for their links to secularism and religious fundamentalism, as well as loss of meaning. To counter these challenges, we examine cultural diversity and inclusion, and how to find meaning and purpose in life and work, through social entrepreneurship, purpose businesses, and impact investment such as ESG. Click the image to ENROL.

GS-CF Module 3 - Education Futures

Factory Schooling & Evolutionary Pedagogies. Module 3 (Lessons 9-12) explores 21st Century education challenges such as poor access to education globally, particularly in Africa. We examine why the 19th Century factory model of schooling, developed to meet industrial expansion, is obsolete. It cannot deal with the complexity of global environmental, economic, and societal change. Solutions go beyond mere access to school, to dive deeply into the quality of education that best prepares young people for global uncertainty, accelerating change and unprecedented complexity. Click the image to ENROL.