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Final Report

~ Summary of outcomes ~

Prepared by the WSES 2011 Core Team:

Hanif, Muhammad Adnan Hiscock, Danielle

Hurry, Jovin Mukaze, Sabine Stepanyan, Elza

Thompson, Tony (Advisor)

July 2011 Karlskrona, Sweden

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Summary

Students from The Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) organized and hosted the 4th World Student Environmental Summit in Karlskrona, Sweden from May 18 to 21, 2011. BTH welcomed 65 delegates representing 27 nationalities and 36 universities located in 18 countries. Five chairpersons, 37 active volunteers and 12 speakers joined in to make this event truly global in its outreach and outlook.

The Summit provided a platform for delegates to collaborate with their peers to create solutions towards alternative futures. The Summit provided delegates with an opportunity to meet leaders in the field of sustainability while establishing networks with like-minded, highly motivated international peers. Delegates stayed in cabins arrayed to create a community feel located on the small island of Dragsö, outside of Karlskrona's centre, which put them close to all Swedish nature has to offer.

Volunteers offered their skills and experience in many different ways such as website support, marketing through social media, greeting delegates, running the registration desks, and feeding all the delegates, volunteers, and guests each day.

The theme of the conversations held during the summit surrounded three concepts:

Conserve, Create, Collaborate

Workshops aimed to connect delegates with our natural environment through building and maintaining a compost pile, planting an edible garden and harvesting herbs & vegetables. Pro Action Café technology was used to discuss environmental projects happening at universities which included those concerning energy efficiency, transportation, food on campus, agricultural issues, recycling, water management, sustainable buildings, encouraging eco-friendly community living and shifting behaviours of students and staff alike.

Delegates discussed issues such as the role of media in promoting sustainability and how to give hope and courage to others to make changes where they live. They further discussed consumer responsibility, finding and being role models and understanding the worldviews of others to help us bridge the gaps across populations. Communications for sustainability was explored using pictures to add a spatial dimension to their current way of thinking about sustainability and dealing with multidisciplinary issues. Delegates were introduced to the up and coming trend of designing product-service systems (PSS) where they see a shift in focus should be from being cost-driven to being value driven. They also participated in a workshop on sustainability in pre-agricultural (hunter and fisher) societies where groups presented and lead discussions around themes and short readings.

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Table of Contents  

Where  it  all  began…                     3  

Our  amazing  delegates                 4  

Our  awesome  volunteers                 5  

Our  summer  residence                   7  

Our  workshop  outcomes                 8  

The  World  Student  Environmental  Network             22  

Appendices:  

Biographies  of  speakers               24  Detailed  programme                 28      Our  sponsors                   30  Acknowledgements                 31    Core  Team  photo                 33  

 

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Where it all began… The Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) proudly hosted the 4th World Student Environmental Summit situated in the naval town of Karlskrona, Sweden from May 18 to 21, 2011. BTH welcomed 65 delegates representing 27 nationalities and 36 universities located in 18 countries. Five chairpersons, 37 active volunteers and 12 speakers joined in to make this event truly global in its outreach and outlook. This student-organised Summit provided a platform for delegates to collaborate with their peers to create solutions towards alternative futures. World-class personalities from science, humanities and education joined in a discussion about economically and socially relevant issues that challenge our sustainable future. BTH and other venues in Karlskrona served as attractive unconventional meeting places for sustainability enthusiasts for four days. The Core Team that organised the Summit comprised of: Tony Thompson, Faculty advisor and BTH students: Adnan Hanif, Danielle Hiscock, Jovin Hurry, Sabine Mukaze and Elza Stepanyan. This Summit’s relevance and uniqueness was supported by well-known authorities such as our patron, Professor Karl-Henrik Robèrt, M.D. Ph.D. Professor Robèrt is an Ashoka Globaliser, one of the handfuls of Ashoka Fellows within this network with the greatest potential for catalyzing global systems change. He received the Green Cross Millennium Award for International Environmental Leadership and the Blue Planet Prize, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Sustainability" for having led the development of the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development, in the business community also known as The Natural Step Framework. Our equally strong supporter is Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, the Director General at TERI University and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Price. In his own words, "... I commend the World Student Environmental Summit for thinking outside the box to provide a platform for the most important stakeholders ... the youth, to make their voices heard." Dr. Ursula Hass, Vice-Chancellor of BTH, also enthusiastically supported the World Student Environmental Summit. Before the first delegates reached Karlskrona, she stated: "The Summit will be a strong magnet that will attract young talents from all continents to creatively discuss burning sustainability issues. BTH is delighted to be the host and thanks its partners who will contribute to making the Summit an even greater highlight of 2011." The Summit provided international students with an extraordinary opportunity to meet leaders in the field of sustainability while establishing networks with like-minded, highly motivated international peers. On 22 May 2011, the delegates left Karlskrona with a shared vision of going back to their homelands to contribute to making Earth a strategically sustainable planet.

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Our amazing delegates The pride of the 4th World Student Environmental Summit is the 65 delegates who attended the Summit. This was made possible because of the 36 universities situated in 18 different countries that collaborated with WSES to send their delegates to attend the Summit. These delegates are nationals of 27 different countries, thus making this Summit a real global event. BTH cordially thanks the university presidents for sending delegates to attend this prestigious event and striving to achieve global sustainability strategically.    

   

Photo Finish: WSES 2011 Delegates and Volunteers  

Our delegates have graciously shared their comments with us. This is what they had to say:

“I made a lot of nice friends. I became familiar with other cultures and also the ideas of people from all over the world; to be more responsible for the environment, for learning new things, e.g. from workshops.” Tayebeh, University of Tehran, Iran “It was one of the most life changing experiences of my life. I met some amazing people, learnt some amazing things and it has increased my hunger for my involvement in sustainability.” Irene, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden/Zimbabwe “Overall the Summit was a very fun and informative experience reminiscent of Rotary Youth Exchange events. I made a lot of friends and I found that even being the youngest, I can still have a voice and help make a difference. So, it was empowering in that manner.” Riley Nox Strother, Okanagan College, Canada “I really had a great time and I am glad that I got the chance to take part in the WSES in Karlskrona. I met a lot of interesting and nice people there and of course I gained new ideas about sustainable development by visiting the workshops and talking to the other delegates.” Martin Bosak, University of Lüneburg, Germany “Inspired, empowered, motivated, energetic, boosted, really positive experience…” Daniel Pinchasik, University of Oslo, Norway

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“It was very fun and I enjoyed it. The people are friendly and they're from different countries. I learned a lot from the workshops but was hoping to gain solutions to my country's problems or how the western methods can be implemented in my society. I can see that a lot of people are well concerned for the environment and it envies me that other countries are more capable in managing it from the government system to the society awareness. I got tonnes of new friends and I hope that I can keep a good contact with them...” Micha Gracianna Devi, Bogor Agriculture University, Indonesia “It was a really good experience, motivating, informative and great for networking. Upon my return, I have already been using the gained experience quite often and it seems really beneficial from this point of view. I hope to green my university and I feel I have enough power to help to spread this ideas among others.” Josef Bruna, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic “Great people, delegates, volunteers, organisers, networking, beautiful Sweden, new ideas and motivation, new friends, very good speakers in the organisation team, great vegetarian food, good organisation and time schedule, very interesting university, beautiful location of the university, very simple: a great but short time with a lot of fun. I’m impressed!” Christina Roolfs, University of Oldenburg, Germany

Our awesome volunteers With 37 active volunteers from around the world helping to make the Summit a success, a true community was born. Volunteers offered their skills and experience in many different ways. Starting off with behind the scenes help in creating our website and with the marketing materials being broadcasted through social media outlets, the word about the Summit in Karlskrona spread quickly. Volunteer opportunities were open to all students at BTH and the response was encouraging, to say the least. Volunteers were eager to meet new people and show the BTH hospitality to the participating delegates. Many new friendships were formed and by participating in the preparation and execution of the Summit, many volunteers have keen feelings towards their experience similar to those often heard by delegates. For example, one volunteer remarked to the organising team that their life has been entirely changed and they are extremely grateful for the opportunity to be a part of such a wonderful week. Volunteers greeted participants at the train station; escorting them to the accommodation at all hours of the day. In addition, with all the mouths to feed, an extraordinary crew prepared breakfast, lunch and dinner for all delegates, volunteers, and guests each day. Volunteers were on hand throughout the programme offering their skills ranging from conducting composting workshops to coordinating the registration desk. The organising team extends a thank you a million miles long to all the volunteers who truly made the 4th WSES the success that it was!

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Some of our Summit volunteers

Volunteer Appreciation Dinner: A salivating menu by the cooking crew

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Our volunteers also have graciously shared their comments with us. This is what some had to say: “Another great time at the Summit meeting students from all over the world and rekindling relationships from last year. It was a blast helping behind the scenes, making sure things ran smoothly for the delegates.” Brian Warshay, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, UAE/USA “We spent around one week together, and I would like to say thank you for all wonderful moments, now, everything is a good memory to remember. You could manage the summit perfectly, and I can see a totally bright future for you. So, continue…. I would like to thank you for accepting me as a volunteer. I learnt a lot from you, and honestly, I would like to thank you for your trust to give me such an opportunity to spend time with you and your kind, nice and special guests, speakers.” Pezhman Kasraee, BTH, Iran

Our summer residence Delegates stayed at Dragsö Camping & Stugby located on the small island of Dragsö, just outside of Karlskrona's centre. They were housed in quaint red cabins with three to four other delegates from different universities, chosen at random. A communal kitchen and dining area were used to serve some of the meals and as a social place for delegates to get to know one another better and share insights of the day's events and learning. Located near the beach and a multi-use trail, delegates spent some of the free time swimming and doing other exercising, keeping their bodies healthy and enjoying Sweden's fresh air.

Team building by the beach at Dragsö Camping

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Our workshop outcomes

About the topics

The Summit delegates found numerous opportunities to hold conversations and debate during the week. As sustainability issues come to the fore, the World Student Environmental Summit invited students and young professionals to discuss the causes and triggers of these issues and to examine how they can find solutions through collaboration, conservation and creating together as one entity.

Tomorrow’s environment will be different, but no less rich in possibilities for those who are prepared. The “new normal” will be shaped by a confluence of powerful forces, some arising directly from the actions taken by institutions such as universities and governments but what will a ‘normal’ environment look like? What will a normal society look like? What will a normal economy look like? Delegates analysed these complex sustainability issues using their courage and leaps of imagination. Young people as leaders of tomorrow were placed at the centre of the discussion.

Conversation centered around the themes below:

Conserve Protecting world heritage

On one hand, we can congratulate ourselves for having achieved incredible feats. On the other hand, we cannot help feeling ashamed of the mess we leave behind for an innocent generation to clean up. What do we have that needs the most protection, while countries keep their high rate of growth? What best practices in environmental management can we learn from one another? How do we influence our peers to conserve the earth we have?

Create Imagining a sustainable future for all

Our global village keeps shrinking, some say. Others say our world is flat. Our world is increasingly complex and dynamic so how do we ensure our future is common and not divided? What do we create to support over 10 billion people in the next few years? What shapes and forms should businesses and cities take to accommodate changing needs?

Collaborate Thriving with the diversity of the human pool

Globalisation and mobility have reshuffled our idea of citizenship, nationality and patriotism. The mundane question ‘Where do you come from?’ leaves some people speechless. As we continue to live in a society that is increasingly materialistic, individualistic and ethno-centric, how do we come together to speak a common language for sustainability? What systems do we put in place to ensure that values are shared? How do we use our differences as strengths to design a common future for us and for our children?

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 Harvests from the workshops

Below are a few of the key learning points harvested from some of the workshops by the delegates which they shared with others in an open session to all on Friday 20 May afternoon.

A snapshot of how the delegates captured their harvests during the workshops

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Workshop: At the Skärva Eco Farm outside of Karlskrona

Delegates at the farm being close to what nature has to offer

• Delegates attended workshops to connect with and learn how to conserve our natural environment while learning how to cultivate food from the earth to nourish our bodies. The workshop stations included:

o Building and maintaining a compost pile

o Preparing & digging soil for planting

o Planting an edible garden

o Harvesting herbs, vegetables, and rhubarb

o Caring for maturing fruit trees

o Making apple and rhubarb crumble for dessert!

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Workshop: Pro-Action Café at the Eco-Farm

Delegates sharing their campus’ projects during the Pro-Action Café on the farm

• Delegates got into rotating groups for 3 rounds to answer the following questions. Some of the ideas shared are included below each:

o What environmental projects are happening at your university to make it more sustainable?

o What are the positive aspects of these initiatives that can be taken to projects at other universities?

o What are the next steps for your projects?

• After the first round, delegates were on similar pages with each other and found that their work could be used in many different places in the world. Projects presented revolved around energy efficiency that engaged university facilities, challenging them to reduce waste, the use of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions.

• Transportation was a key issue for delegates. Their work included projects that encourage biking and walking. For example, having bikes available on campus to get from one place to another and ensuring that bike parking areas were available for all. Others are developing ride-sharing programs and encouraging transport vehicles for university fleets be shifted to bio-fuels, hybrids, and/or electric vehicles.

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• Projects involving food on campus are inspiring healthy eating such as weekly and monthly meals in a space where students cook vegetarian meals together, share recipes while socializing together. Other projects touch agricultural issues, including student-run organic and natural vegetable gardens using wormeries and showcasing composting techniques for community gardens.

• Topics include water management within sustainable buildings, encouraging eco-friendly university housing and demonstrations of how to live in an eco-friendly community, including the topic of recycling to raise awareness and shift behaviours of students and staff alike.

It was important for all delegates to tackle behaviour changes and make sure the projects allow students to have fun with healthy and nurturing competition, and be part of a community that shares great food. Sharing practices with students from all over the world opens up a whole new realm of possibilities for each student and each university to bring back new exciting ideas.

Workshop: Sustainability and human rights

 Delegates doing group-work on case-studies in their own country

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 “Let me show you how the media works in my country.”

• The media has to promote more and more heroes and heroines of sustainability.

• Instead of highlighting negative stories, the media should write more about hope and what gives courage to others in order to inspire them.

• Who decides what to publish has remained a key question till the end of the session. Some questioned the half-truths published in papers and whether an ‘unfair’/’incomplete’ report under-privileges some sectors of the society, e.g. not giving every detail of a natural catastrophe.

• It may be hard to tell the truth due to strong lobbies from various interest groups.

• Suggestions for what media can do to promote sustainable peace:

o Tell the truth.

o Be responsible about the content of the news.

o Be neutral.

o Keep a balance on perspectives.

o Look the sustainable solutions and not sensationalise the problem.

• Delegates discussed different issues that affect the social component of sustainability and how they have been reported by the media, e.g. during peace, war and in zones of

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conflict. Highlights were on nuclear weapons in Iran, earthquake victims, location of radioactive wastes, genocides in Darfur, the Shivsena case in India, the red Kmers in Cambodia, apartheid in South-Africa and the tsunami in Japan.

• Delegates deepened the discussion on media’s role in promoting sustainability with global peace and human rights, mentioning the advantages of living sustainably and the consequences of not doing so.

• They further discussed how everybody can incorporate sustainable actions in their own life as consumers and how the media can easily find role models for their stories. Several touched on the aspects of positive media, emphasising the importance of stories on cooperation and help around sustainability.

 

Workshop: Communicating Sustainability to Different Worldviews

 Speaker  Barrett  Brown  challenging  audience  worldviews  on  sustainability  

 

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  An  attentive  audience  taking  profuse  notes  during  Barrett  Brown’s  lecture    

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• Understanding the worldviews of others helps us to understand high-level similarities across populations.

• In certain ways, every person is like all other people.

• It is crucial, in the multi-disciplinary field of sustainability, to see issues with different lenses. As Barrett puts it: “Any negative reaction we feel toward a worldview blocks our capacity to authentically communicate and create mutual understanding with someone who holds that lens on life.”

• The fact that there are so many worldviews brings out the uniqueness of the potential of humankind.

• Communications for sustainability is about bringing together these four areas:

o Interior and individual worldview on aesthetics

o Interior and collective views, e.g. ethnical, political and cultural

o Exterior and individual, i.e. biological, e.g. health and well-being

o Exterior and collective, i.e. ecological, economic and social.

• Different stakeholders pull in their own interests. Learn the interests of business people, local authorities, NGOs, media, the public, the youth, women, children etc.

• Look for the bottlenecks before aiming at creating a movement. As Barrett eloquently puts it: “By focusing conscious attention on where we feel a reaction in our body, we can begin to move through any internal blockage we might have toward that worldview. Effective communication starts with profoundly understanding ourselves.”

• Our speaker shared about the colours of the worldviews, e.g. purple, red, blue, orange and green. He explained and described the values for each one.

• Barrett Brown shared some of his knowledge of integral thinking as well.

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Workshop: Thinking visually together about sustainable futures

 

 Speaker Holger Nils questioning the delegates on their assignment

   

Speaker Holger Nils making use of the glass walls overseeing the Baltic Sea  

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The workshop tapped the right side of the delegates’ brains, pushing them to thinking in pictures and to add a spatial dimension to their current way of thinking about sustainability.

• Delegates learned the importance of mapping out issues visually first, reinforcing the age-old adage of a picture speaking a thousand words, enriching the communication in the team discussion.

• Different types of mind-maps were used to systemically see the issues on the table. Arrows were drawn to highlight links and possible blind spots. Some groups even unconsciously started a picture dictionary, as they got engrossed in the process.

• The delegates were grouped into one assignment each, a topic of their choice, mutually agreed by the group formed. Holger walked around looking at the process of solving the issue.

• In the end, each team presented their findings with post-its on the glass wall in the brightly-lit Multisalen room. Others had the chance to ask questions and clarify concepts learned.

• During the workshop, the students learned a process; the process of creating material with words and images to convey data, concepts, and emotions. This use of visual material to relate ideas deepened the importance of learning and practicing systems thinking when it comes to dealing with multidisciplinary issues of sustainability.

• Graphics have always existed since the first cave paintings. Sustainability issues, in their internal complexity, can be better communicated visually compared to words alone, in the attempt to create a shared understanding.

• The visual messages on the glass wall with the texts had a greater power inform, educate and even persuade the audience.

• A note that was made clear was that the evaluation of good visual thinking and design was based on whether the audience understood the sustainability issue, and not on the aesthetic or personal artistic preference. This is why Holger stressed that “everyone can draw.”

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Workshop: The Business of Conservation: Case Study of GreenBills Pte Ltd

 A  delegate  presenting  the  group  findings  on  how  a  company  can  become  sustainable  

 

Speaker Harveen Singh (standing in the foreground) listening to a delegate’s presentation

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Workshop: Creating sustainable products for tomorrow’s society

 

 Speaker Tobias Larsson got his audience to play and innovate

 Delegates presenting the plan for their innovative prototype product

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• People usually treat products and services as separate. The trend now is towards a product-service system (PSS), e.g. the iPhone. PSS will guide the design stage through thinking about sustainability for when the product is produced and consumed.

• The shift in focus should be from being cost-driven to being value driven. Delegates looked at how sustainability and value could be brought together.

• We should look at not building or designing a function, but designing and building to fit a function to a need. E.g. instead of building a car and then sell to a rental company, design and build a ‘rental car.’ In this way, some thought that car ownership may be a thing of the past. We need to re-think services and function, and adapt products creatively to achieve these goals.

• Radical innovation is about using divergent thinking with convergent concepts. Delegates used the Kano Model of good/bad features in their assignment.

• Speaker Tobias Larsson discussed several case studies on radical innovation, especially from his work in the aerospace industry, on cutting fuel use, reducing emissions and saving money for the company.

• In their assignment, delegates used templates of Functional Product Development, as professionals would use. E.g. for the concept, they wrote the ‘tag line’, sketched the concept, outlined ‘features’ and took notes on feedback.

• Delegates further analysed the value chain of a coffee machine, from farming to disposal, with the goal of achieving the ‘ultimate coffee experience’. Some of the factors discussed in this case were: speed, economy, health, taste, eco-friendliness etc.

Workshop on sustainability in pre-agricultural (hunter and fisher) societies

• The workshop compared sustainability among nomadic pre-agricultural hunters, fishers and herders with the practices of agricultural–based societies. Hunters and fishers sustained their lifestyles and economies for 40 millennia from modern man’s exodus out of East Africa until the Agricultural Revolution at the end of the Ice Age. Unlike farmers, they did not have fixed territories, but followed the animals. Also they did not overproduce food, had no surpluses, did not engage much in trade or barter, did not grow large populations and did not deplete their sources of food supply. Further, they did not build fortified settlements and showed little evidence of conflict weapons and war.

• The workshop was inspired by themes from Jared Diamond on ‘Collapse’ and Steve Taylor on ‘The Fall’. Four groups formed to give presentations and lead discussions on four themes and short readings: a) land ownership and property rights (Chief Seattle) b) conflict, nature and harmony (Laozi on Taoism) c) food supply and population (Thomas Malthus) and d) Western Civilisation as a model for developing countries (Plato’s Republic).

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The World Student Environmental Network The World Student Environmental Network (WSEN), formerly ISEN (International Student Environmental Network), was established in 2008, as a joint decision of students around the world at the first World Student Environmental Summit in Kyoto. All participants expressed a need for an international student network that could facilitate information sharing and cooperation towards a sustainable society and creating global solutions to climate change. The WSEN will act as a hub for student actions in lobbying international governance bodies and breaking the cross-cultural barriers of campus based collaboration The WSEN was extremely excited about the WSES held in Karlskrona at BTH. The WSEN is currently in the stages of rewriting and refocusing their Vision and Mission statements and the Summit at BTH served to uphold the core values and principles of the network while setting the stage for future Summits. As part of the WSEN, delegates from the Summit at BTH are now connected to past delegates through an online platform where they are able to continue meeting new people and sharing their projects to reach sustainability on campus. More information about the WSEN can be found below: Web 2011 WSES: http://2011wses.org/ Web WSEN: http://wsen.org/ Facebook 2011WSES: http://www.facebook.com/2011wses Facebook WSEN: http://www.facebook.com/wstudentenet

 

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Appendices

~ Bios of speakers ~ ~ Detailed progamme ~

~ Our sponsors ~ ~ Core Team photo ~

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Bios of Speakers

Our speakers come from the best in the fields of strategic urban design, social innovation, sustainability, education and business development.

Karl-Henrik Robèrt, M.D. Ph.D.  

Professor Robèrt is the chairman of the steering group of the Real Change Programme. He holds a Doctoral degree in Internal Medicine from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Until 1993 he was an Associate Professor at Karolinska Institutet, headed the Division of Clinical Hematology and Oncology at the Department of Medicine at the Huddinge Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden and was the Editor of Reviews in Oncology. In 1989 he founded The Natural Step, a non-profit research, training and advisory organization for sustainability. Between 1995 and 2001 he was an Adjunct Professor of Physical Resource Theory at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

In 1999 Professor Robèrt received the Green Cross Millennium Award for International Environmental Leadership and in 2000 he received the Blue Planet Prize for having led the development of the framework for strategic sustainable development that is central to this Master’s programme, in the business community also known as The Natural Step Framework. In 2005, he was named the inaugural winner of the prestigious global award The Social Responsibility Laureate Medal. Dr. Robèrt and Dr. Broman initiated the development of the Master's in Strategic Leadership toward Sustainability programme in 2002, followed by the Masteräs in Sustainable Product-Service Innovation programme in 2009.

Marina Joarder  

Marina is a Deutsche Welle foreign language journalist, She is also a Peace and Conflict Consultant from the Academy for Conflict Transformation. Previously, she was a Research Assistant in Wissenschaftliches Institut der Ärtze Deutschlands. Originally from Bangladesh, Marina speaks fluently Bengali, English, German, French and Hindi. She holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) at the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nuertingen-Geislingen, Germany, a LL.M. (Masters of Laws) and a LL.B. (Honors) Bachelors of Laws from the University of Dhaka. In her free time, Marina enjoys reading novels, travelling, dancing, cooking and sports.

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Kelvin Campbell  

Kelvin is recognised internationally as a leading figure in urbanism, advising numerous cities on urban design matters. An architect/urban designer, he co-founded Urban Initiatives in 1989 as an interdisciplinary urban planning and design practice, leading it on some of the best urban projects in Europe and with it, to numerous awards in best practice and innovation. He is the author of ‘By Design’ (CABE) 2000, ‘Re:Urbanism’ and is completing ‘Massive Small: The Operating System for Smart Urbanism’. Kelvin is Visiting Professor of Urban Design at the University of Westminster; urban design advisor to numerous cities and boroughs; a past member of the CABE Design Review Committee; Chairman of the Urban Design Group; member of the Prince’s Foundation Advisory Panel, and a long time assessor for the National Housing Design Awards.

Harveen Singh  

Harveen is a technology entrepreneur. Presently, he is Director of Strategy at GreenPost, a leader in the electronic bill presentment and payment field, which builds on his earlier experience with a high-tech telco technology research and development start-up. In his previous life as Advocate and Solicitor, he spent five years with prestigious city law firms in Singapore. During that time, he worked on several cases that have added to the body of case law in Singapore as well as led to a Parliamentary debate on National Service. From 2006 to 2008, Harveen also served as a Legislative Assistant to a prominent Member of Parliament in Singapore, assisting him in key debates that among others, led to the introduction of a social safety net in Singapore and reforms to banking legislation. Harveen has also adjunct-lectured for seven years in the Aviation Law and Policy course at the National University of Singapore.

Dan Epstein

Most recently Head of Sustainability on the 2012 Olympics, the biggest sustainability job in the country, after a 30 year career in thinking, designing and delivering sustainable development in the UK and overseas. Dan’s strengths are knowledge of the whole sustainability agenda and how it applies to development, his reputation and knowledge of the market and the respect he commands within it, his ability to sell ideas and business, his experience in place-making, urban regeneration and new development and the whole sustainable cities programme. Dan has participated in many government and agency panels.

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Inderpaul Johar

Indy is an architect and is Director and Co-founder of 00:/, where he leads on several architecture, research and strategy projects. Indy has directed a series of large scale design projects. He is a shareholder in the HUB King’s Cross in London, a social entrepreneur’s club and incubator which paid particular attention to physical and social methods to foster interaction and cross-disciplinary innovation. Before setting up 00:/ he has lectured lectures on a variety of subjects at Demos, the European Parliament, LSE , Columbia University, TU -Berlin, UE -Dublin, the University of West England, the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of the Arts and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

Tobias C. Larsson, Ph.D.  

Tobias C. Larsson is since March 2011 chaired professor in Product Innovation with special emphasis on Product/Service System Innovation towards sustainability at School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, BTH. Tobias earned his PhD at Luleå University of Technology in 2001 within the area of simulation driven design with respect to vehicle dynamics. The applications were within automotive sector and high-speed trains. Tobias devotes his teaching efforts to product development related courses, both via BTH and LTU lectures and via lectures on other universities and in industry on national and international level.

Barrett C. Brown, Ph.D.c  

Barrett specializes in leadership and change management for sustainability. For the past two years at the Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative, he served on the core team to design and execute large-scale multi-stakeholder initiatives that mainstream sustainability into global supply chains. This involved building learning systems within entire sectors and driving cross-organizational alignment and innovation amongst multinational corporations, governments in the North and South, and international civil society organizations. In addition to his corporate advisory work on leadership and organizational development, he has helped develop and launch eight NGOs and social entrepreneurship ventures, and serves on the Advisory Board for three others. Barrett held UN consultative status for four years, and has presented widely.

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Holger Nils Pohl  

Holger Nils Pohl is a self-employed concept designer and consultant and Chairman of KölnDesign. He lectures at Macromedia Hochschule für Medien und Kommunikation in Cologne and at Bergische in Kunstschule. He finished his studies of scenographic design at FH Dortmund and spent some time at RWTH Aachen in architecture.

Greg MacDonald Greg MacDonald works at RISEBA Business School in Riga, Latvia. Originally from Canada, Greg is interested in innovation productivity, psychology, migration patterns, and why civilisations rise and fall. An architect for growth plans for six business schools, Greg worked at Copenhagen University, Sydney University, the International Labour Organisation, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Stockholm School of Economics in St. Petersburg and the Kazakhstan Institute of Management. Last year he wrote a book on innovation in China. Mythology is his hobby – the ancient origins and economic pathways of man. He is inspired by the System Theory of von Bertalanffy, Huntington's 'Civilisations', Jared Diamond's book "Collapse" and Chomsky's Surface Structure / Deep Structure'.

 

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Detailed programme

Tuesday 17 May 2011 Arrival Day

• Lunch Individual arrangements on your own • 3pm onwards Check-in @ Dragso. Light snacks • Optional Activities

o Karlskrona Tour o Marine Museum

• 3pm-6pm WSEN Meeting @ Dragso • 6pm-8pm Dinner @ Dragso. Light dinner

Wednesday 18 May 2011 Arrival Day. Summit Opening

• ALL DAY Registration @ Dragso • 7am-8.30am Breakfast @ Dragso • Morning, TBD: Tour of BTH Green Buildings • 12.30pm-2pm Lunch @ Dragso • Supporting Programme Morning/Afternoon Individual arrangements. Delegate Tours.

o Karlskrona Tour o Marine Museum

• 6pm-9pm Welcome Dinner and Ice Breakers

Thursday 19 May 2011 Summit [Conserve]

• 7am-8am Summer jive morning activities: Yoga by the Sea with Maja Feldman • 7am-8.30am Breakfast @ Dragso • 9.20am-9.30am Welcome @ Rotundun (BTH) • 9.30am-11.00am Plenary @ Rotundun (BTH) • 11.15am-1.00pm Workshops

o Workshop 1 @ J1620 (BTH) Greg MacDonald o Workshop 2 @ J1270 (BTH) Marina Joarder o Workshop 3 @ Multisalen (BTH) Barrett Brown

• 1pm-2.15pm Networking Lunch @ Cafe J Bistro(BTH) • 2.15pm-2.30pm Bus BTH to Skärva • 2.30pm-10pm Skärva Eco-Farm & Pro Action Cafe

Friday 20 May 2011 Summit [Create]

• 7am - 8am Morning activities: jog, walk, yoga by the sea. • 7am-8.00am Breakfast @ Dragso • 9am-9.30am Welcome & @ Multi-Salen • 9.30am-12pm Workshops

o Workshop 1 @ Rotundan (BTH) Harveen Narulla o Workshop 2 @ Multi-Salen (BTH) Holger Nils o Workshop 3 @ J1360 (BTH) Tobias Larsson

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• 10.30am-11.00am Networking Break Open Foyer. BTH. • 12pm-1pm Open space Creation Avenue. MSLS Facilitators Sustainability Forum Idea

Creation. Blekinge region in focus. o Workshop 1- Economy (BTH) o Workshop 2- Society (BTH) o Workshop 3- Environment (BTH)

• 1.00pm-2.30pm Networking Lunch Cafe J Bistro, BTH • 2.30pm-4.00pm Designing our sustainable future

o Session 1 @ Multi-Salen (BTH) Kelvin Campbell o Session 2 @ J1620 (BTH) Inderpaul Johar

• 4.30pm-6.00pm @ Multi-Salen (BTH) Plenary Panel: "Creating sustainable futures: Fighting a losing battle?" Moderators: Marina Joarder, Harveen Narulla

o Kelvin Campbell o Inderpaul Johar o Holger Nilson o Greg MacDonald o Tobias Larsson

• 7pm-9pm Dinner @ Multi-Salen (BTH)

Saturday 21 May 2011 Summit [Collaborate]. Co-event ‘EU Youth Seminar’. ‘Live Green Festival’

• Summer jive Morning activities: jog, walk, yoga by the sea • 8am-9.00am Breakfast Dragso • 09.30 -10.00 Coffee & Registration @ Konsthallen • 10.00-10.15 Welcome

o Mats Johansson, Chair Blekinge Regional Board Region Blekinge o Lisa Wagnborg, YC3 Project Manager

• 10.15-11.15 @ Konsthallen. Johan Ronnestam: Influence with social media • 11.15-12.00 @ Konsthallen. Irmantas Sujeta: Youth participation and influence • 12.00-12.45 Lunch @ Konsthallen • 12.45-2.30pm @ Konsthallen. The Good Tribe: What role did social media have in recent

actions in Egypt? • 2.30pm-3.30pm @ Konsthallen. Dan Epstein: Sustainability and World Events: Case:

London Olympics 2012 • 3.45pm-4.45pm @ Konsthallen. Professor Karl-Henrik Robert: Sustainability Lessons from a

Veteran • 5.00pm-6.30pm @ Konsthallen. Closing Ceremony

o Special Speaker: Eiji Hatta • 6.30pm-Midnight Open evening Fun time!

o Dinner @ Dragso o Live Green Festival @ Wamö Parken. o Organic food market. o Music festival.

Sunday 22 May 2011 Departure Day

• 7am-9.00am Breakfast Dragso Camp. • 10.30-11.30 Post-summit Farewell @ Dragso • 12pm Check-out

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Our sponsors  

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Acknowledgements

BTH and the Core Team thank all those who contributed the making the Summit a success.

Sponsors Region Blekinge Urban Initiatives Doshisha University BTH MSLS Programme GreenPost

BTH staff Dr. Ursula Haas, Vice-Chancellor Henric Johnson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Tamara Connell, Programme Director, MSLS Programme Tony Thompson, Programme Director, MSPI Programme

Swedish Sustainability Forum 2011 Alexandra Holmdahl, International Coordinator and Project Assistant YC3 staff Lisa Wagnborg, Project Leader, Region Blekinge

Karlskrona konsthall Suzanne Eklöf

LiveGreen Festival Louise Linden

Skärva Eco-Farm Henrik Wachtmeister

WSEN Agnes Meyder, Germany Shiori Takano, Japan Brian Warshay, USA Nikolas Hagemann, Germany Nele Kapretz, Germany Ronja Ratzbor, Germany Aya Imai, Japan Hajo Muller, Germany

Volunteers A.Chaminda J. Samarasekera Aaron Lewis Aaron Quesnel Abeer Akhtar Abel Gladstone Mangam Ajay Gul Akbar Ali Amare Ketsela Andrew Campbell Anna Ritz Asad Saeed

Ashok kumar Babak Kianian Bulli koteswararao kommineni Chris Rhodes Christopher Baan Cindy Sundborg Damoon Rastegar Dana Pearlman Dinesh Ramesh Kumar Fahad Naveed Farnaz Motamediyan

Dehkordi Habib ur Rehman Hadiya Pritesh Hafiz Adnan Shafiq Hamid Ali Hanna Plant Helen Yeshiwas Huan Pang Iman Tahvili Irena Efremovska James Ede Junwen Luo

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Kirsti Piirtoniemi Ksenia Sigakova Lilli McCubbin M.Shahan Ali Khan Maarten Dankers Majid Khan Mohamed Riyazdeen Mubeen Arshid Nanond Nopparat Naomi Smith Narendra Kurapati Nasir Mehmood Nemani Subash Paresh Kumar Lakhani Pezhman Kasraee

Prabhu Dorairaj Radha Krishnan Balakrishnan Ragi Shivashanker Rammohan Kp Rajev Kumar Oad Rakeshbhai Patel Ravichandran R S Robert Jeremiah Romina Busto Ruben Johnson S S V Sumanthkotta Sam Brizuela Sara Flores Sarfraz Hussain

Shiori Takano Sudheesh Sureshkumar Tamar Harel Tara McNerney Telma Gomes Tibebu Gissila Uday Chaitanya Dornadula Venkata Sravan Kumar Maddineni Vevek Selvaraj Vijil Subash Zainul Abideen Zaruhi Aslanyan

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Core Team photo  

 

The WSES 2010 Core Team: Wishing all the best to the WSEN and WSES 2012 Core Team J

From Left to Right – Hurry, Jovin; Stepanyan, Elza; Thompson, Tony (Advisor); Hiscock, Danielle;

Mukaze, Sabine and Hanif, Muhammad Adnan