Creating Societal Impact
Creating Societal Impact (USG 4541)
Do you feel disempowered in the climate crisis? Are you looking for agency and engagement with beyond the usual registers of consumption reduction, voting, or protest?
Creating Societal Impact will explore alternative ways of responding to the climate crisis, in your own everyday life and communities around you. By re-thinking and practicing what ‘action’ means, it will invite you to practice ‘micro-interventions’ in the world around you to find your own form of engagement.
This course will be an open learning space with workshops, reflection exercises, co-working sessions and dialogue.
Classes will be Mondays and Thursdays 17:30-20:00, UCU, during block 3 (February- April).
Creating Societal Impact is an interdepartmental course offered by UCU, the Utrecht School of Governance, the Utrecht School of Economics, and the Utrecht School of Law. It will allow 16 students in total.
How to apply
For your application, write a page (could be text, images, art, whatever does the job for you) in which you propose an entry-point for transformation: Where would you begin?
Your entry point does not have to be feasible or ‘realistic’- after all, we are just imagining at this point. But in the making, keep in mind three questions:
- What kind of transformation does it speak to? (like: economic, or inclusivity, or the representation of nature in politics?
- Why do you care about this transformation?
- What do you propose to do as a first step towards that transformation?
Send your page plus a short description of yourself to Gerard van der Ree (G.vanderRee@uu.nl) before 1 December.
How to register
If you want this off-campus course on your UCU transcript, you must request it as an off-campus course with the Exam Board.
Enrolment in OSIRIS will be taken care of by Gerard van der Ree and the Utrecht School of Governance.