pdc+++ module 4 class 8 social capital
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Energy & EcoTechnologyModule 4 of the PDC+++PDC
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+We dedicate this Module to the Mother &
Father of Integral Permaculture: Dana Meadows & Howard Odum, two original
pioneers who helped humanity make great strides in understanding systemic
thinking, in all four quadrants.
In this class we explore social capital as the umbrella term we use to value a complex set of inner quadrant qualities
such as creativity, innovation, social skills, connectivity, emotional intelligence, knowledge, wisdom, cultural awareness, etc.,
all of which have a critical part to play in re-designing any technology & therefore society as a whole.
"Sustainable Development" has been criticized as a term for being inherently contradictory, but when all quadrants are taken into account,
we can see that a major growth in the interior quadrants (personal development & culture) will probably be key in achieving any significant reduction in physical
consumption or material growth, so 'sustainable development' is far from contradictory as a term.
So how do we design for increasing and improving social capital?
Class M4.8Social Capital
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M4.8 * How can we design to Increase and Improve Social
Capital?
Definitions
Integrated in Whole Design
Creativity
Innovation
M4.8 * How can we design to Increase and Improve Social
Capital?
Definitions
Integrated in Whole Design
Creativity
Innovation
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book:
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SocialCapital
GlobalSuccess
Social Capital
patterns & intensity of networks of people
+ value which emerges from these networkscitizienship, community feeling,
confidence, values, rules, shared institutions,
commitment and community organization,
volunteering and civic engagement, social networks
Human Capital
abilities, knowledge, experience, production
skills…
Natural Capital
biosphere resources – ecosystems’ service
capacity
Social Capital
CAPACITYPOWERABILITY
Collective Intelligence
to improve society
Collective Intelligence
Social cohesion andability of a community
or a society to collaborate and
cooperate
(through network-like systems, shared
confidence, rules and values)
to achieve mutual benefits
Social Capital
Value of social networks that people
can use to solve common problems.
Social capital benefits come from confidence, reciprocity,
information and cooperation linked to
social networks
Social Capital
Collective Intelligence
People’s attitude, spirit & desire to engage in
collective civic activities.
Social Capital
Collective Intelligence
With time, social capital builds what can be
called social infrastructure.
Capacities and infrastructure that promote social progress
Collective Intelligence
Social Capital
Social capital is a resource ...
that represents a debt of a society towards the members
sourced by the contributions they made for the development of economic activities ...
contemplated in the social aim.
In informal speech, the term “capital” means an amount of
money, riches, inherited wealth, or amount that is invested or contributed
In Spanish, Social Capital = Shareholders’ Equity
Remember Stocksfrom M2.5 – Resources class
Renewable StocksNon-Renewable Stockseg. chemicals, minerals(oil, coal, copper, etc.).
eg. biological(forests, fish, water, etc.).
Use 4 and 5 only to create
infrastructure
4) REDUCED by use
5) POLLUTE if used
1) INCREASE by modest use
2) UNAFFECTED by use
3) DISAPPEAR / DEGRADE if not used
Stock – a place where energy is stored:e.g. resources like forest biomass, soil, organic matter,
carbon … and also human and social capital (both types)
fulfillsREAL
human needs
makes a very good
use ofRESOURCES
takes into account global &
long-term COSTS
GOOD DESIGN
- biological
- emotional
- spiritual
- conservation
- environment
- economy
- materials
- technology
- energy
Definitions
Integrated in Whole Design
Creativity
Innovation
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Design Motivation• We visited this topic in MANY
ways throughout all this course• Starting in Module 1, People
Care• and from the beginning of ALL
designs: Design Motivation …
• Social Need
Human Needs9 categories identified by Manfred Max-Neef
(Human Scale Development)The 7 Fs
of People's Needs
FoodFuelFibre
FodderFertilizerFarmacy& Fun
ParticipationCreativityLeisureFreedomAffectionProtectionSubsistenceUnderstandingIdentity
fulfillsREAL
human needs
GOOD DESIGN
- biological
- spiritual- emotional
Ignoring REAL human needsproduces DAMAGE
that afterwards need lots of ENERGY to be repaired
Accommodating FALSE needsis a TOTAL waste of energy
food, shelter, warmth, contact,
defecating,discharging,
playing,working,resting, silence,
CONTINUITY
belonging, contacting,
(COMMUNITY), learning, exploring, inventing,
discharging, resting, working,
CREATING, cultural feeling
harmony, knowledge, connection,
purpose, EMPOWERMENT,
creation,beauty,nature, freedom
we also saw that …
“HARVEST” of a system is
theorically unlimited- IMAGINATION -
physical
biological
spatial
technical
conservation
social
cultural
Legal /administrative
temporal Considers ‘upstream costs’ (input enegy) &
‘downstream costs’ (e.g. health)
CiclesNiches in
time“catching the flow”
A sustainable system produces all the energy and resources thatit needs for its maintenance and growth. What remains is the “harvest”
Input energy < Maintenance energy + HARVEST
ENERGYACCOUNTING(Sustainability)
+ Brewery Waste= 5 new businesses
Montfort Boys Town, Fiji
own food & resources with
pisciculture
1996 – ZERI & Prof. George Chan
FISH
PIGS
MUSHROOMS
1997
mushroomenzymes
BIO-DIGESTOR
YIELD Brewery waste
mushrooms substrate >
< with rice
straw & sawdust
FISHpig food
waste
BuildingFertile Connections
AppropiateTechnology
UsingLocalResources
Mini-Max
ALGAE
PIGS
MUSHROOMS
1997
YIELD
mushroomenzymes
pig food
wasteBIO-DIGESTOR
GAS
shallow pools
PESCADOFISH
Brewery waste
mushrooms substrate >
< with rice
straw & sawdust
FISHFISH + border polyculture + hydrophonics
ALGAE
PIGS
MUSHROOMS
1997
mushroomenzymes
BIO-DIGESTOR
GAS
shallow pools
YIELD
appropiate technology
appropiate technology
appropiate technology
appropiate technology
Good DesignSOCIAL CAPITAL
Brewery waste
mushrooms substrate >
< with rice
straw & sawdust
pig food
waste
technical
biologicalsocial
cultural
Legal /admini-strativa
physical
spatialconservation
resources pollutionconsumption
Energy Cycling
Sustainability on a small scale, as on a big scale, means
that a system creates or stores more energy during its lifetime
than it needs for it to be created and maintained
resources
pollution
prosuming
otherresources
appropiatetechnology
Also works with Invisible Resources
social
cultural
tecniques
Limiting Population & Consumption
resources
polución
prosuming
otherresources
appropiatetechnology
otherresources
appropiatetechnology
otherresources
Harvesting only sunlightSustainability on a small scale ....as on a big scale ... meansthat a system creates or stores more energy during its lifetimethan it needs for it to be created and maintained
“catching the flow”
Definitions
Integrated in Whole Design
Creativity
Innovation
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THE DRIVING FORCE of rEVOLUTION
CREATIVITY
it’s… seeing something NEW when you look at something OLD
CIVILIZATIONis at the Heart of
and is
“Creativity is inventing experimenting, growing,
taking risks, breaking rules, making errors, & having fun"
- Mary Lou Cook -
Creativity is Intelligence having
Fun
Albert Einstein
“If I had to summarize what distinguishes creative people I’d use word complexity. Instead of a single individual they’re a multitude. Like the colour white includes all the colours, creative people usually contain the whole range of human possibilities inside themselves.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Creativity allows for paradox,
light & shadow,inconsistency,
even chaos and creative people
experience all extremes with the same intensity.”
Convergent thought (rational, judgemental) & Divergent thought (intuitive, visionary) at the same time
cold air heavierinsulation
0.1 kWh / day
vertical door
90 seconds / hour (silent)
1 kWh / day is wasted
consume less power/volume, even though they maintain much colder
temperatures
thermostat outside(cuts off power whenrequired temperature is reached)
to measure used energy
social
cultural
technical
Imagination
Super-Summary:
Collective Intelligence
= getting rid of ego issues
Imagination ..... is changing the viewpoint
When everybody thinks the same,
it’s because nobody is thinking
Definitions
Integrated in Whole Design
Creativity
Innovation
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CREATIVITY INNOVATION
What’s the difference between…&
Skill to generate new ideas
Capacity to apply creativity to
generate value
changes Perception changes Reality
CREATIVITY requires thought
INNOVATION requires action
John Kao
This is a whole computer, with its peripherals
How?!
Assembled, it looks like this…
One piece is the screen& the other the keyboard
Just put your fingers in the image and type.
Easy, isn’t it?!...
There are different models.
There’s also amodel for PALMs.
IF a technology can expand enough… then it’s creativity that has turned into innovation.
Definitions
Integrated in Whole Design
Creativity
Innovation
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Social Capital
CAPACITY
POWERABILITY
What increases & What decreases our Capacity,
Power & Ability?
to improve society
sustainable development
•3. El salto social, chapter 7
•The aim of the environmental policy of the salto social is to gradually advance toward sustainable human development,
•understood as the amplification of the capacities of the population,
through the development of social capital, to satisfy the needs of present generations through prudent management of natural resources,
•whilst maintaining options open for the well-being of future generations.
what CREATES Social Capital?
& how do we develop technologies to increase it?
Sustainable Development is that which can ...
Satisfy the needs of present generations without jeopardizing the possibilities of future ones to attend to
their own needs.
Brudtland Report 20 March 1987
We need an Exponential Growth of Intelligence, Wisdom, Creativity, Innovation ... & Social Capital (how all this inter-connects to INNOVATE)
Capital social: las relaciones sociales afectan al desarrollo(Marta Portela Maseda e Isabel Neira Gómez)
The question that is put in order to analyze the level of social confidence is: “Generally speaking, do you believe that the majority of people can be trusted
or does one have to be careful in dealing with people?”
The variable which is considered the most important when it comes to quantifying social capital ... is social confidence. Many studies demonstrate that a high level of social confidence reduces the costs of any type of transaction & facilitates the flow of information.
Societies with a higher level of
confidence have an
additional potential for
achieving economic growth, although
confidence on its own is not
enough.
PEOPLE'S CONFIDENCE
%
Conclusion: social networks should be encouraged, because through them an increase in general confidence can be achieved, which affects the development of the nation.Capital social: las relaciones sociales afectan al desarrollo
(Marta Portela Maseda e Isabel Neira Gómez)
social confidence
The variable which is considered the most important when it comes to quantifying social capital ... is social confidence. Many studies demonstrate that a high level of social confidence reduces the costs of any type of transaction & facilitates the flow of information.
Confidence relates also to
maturityNatural Successions
How to organize actions in a world of distributed networks?
Renouncing control. Movements grow through spontaneous joining, planning what who is going to do when doesn't make any sense.
All relevant & authentically distributed movements of the last decades have displayed two necessary phases:
− Deliberation: localized in forums & blogs, necessarily of a «minority», forming a new consensus, which, translated into slogans, will convert to mobilization. (Social Laboratory of new dialogues)
Successful activism has much of the self-fulfilling prophecy. When a certain level is reached of people who not only wants to but believes they can change things, change becomes inevitable.
No strict hierarchies of values are imposed nor a credo, instead qualities, channels, of a certain way of seeing the world are proposed, of a certain life style which will be the real binding agent of the network. Centralized Network
There is a strong identifying character which is the robustness of the network.
The idea is to develop tools & put them at the disposal of the public
The visibility of the heterogeneous (& the possibility to dissent with those who exert power without being left out of the system but in fact being recognized as a necessary part of it), the rupture of passivity is the culmination of the whole empowerment strategy.
− Mobilization: articulated over the outreach tools (YouTube but also Facebook including, to a lesser degree, Twitter) & of direct communication one on one as with SMS or digital files with posters or stickers that anyone can reproduce & distribute.
Distributed Network
Definitions
Integrated in All Design
• Creativity
• Innovation
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