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| ===== The Ocean Connects Us ===== | ===== The Ocean Connects Us ===== |
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| A [[https://gulbenkian.pt/uk-branch/|CGF UK]] event. 1 March 2017 at the Trinity Buoy Wharf (in collaboration with Marine CoLABoration and FoAM) | A [[https://gulbenkian.pt/uk-branch/|CGF UK]] event. 1st March 2017 at the Trinity Buoy Wharf\\ |
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| <blockquote>The ocean sustains life on earth – the wellbeing and prosperity of us all – but faces immediate existential threats to its health and functioning. The public remains largely unaware of this and ocean protection is a pretty low priority on national and international agendas. The issues are multi-dimensional and no one sector can address them alone. Science, conservation, policy, art, business, all are playing a role, often in new, exciting and increasingly joined-up ways. | <blockquote>The ocean sustains life on earth – the wellbeing and prosperity of us all – but faces immediate existential threats to its health and functioning. The public remains largely unaware of this and ocean protection is a pretty low priority on national and international agendas. The issues are multi-dimensional and no one sector can address them alone. Science, conservation, policy, art, business, all are playing a role, often in new, exciting and increasingly joined-up ways. |
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| The Ocean Connects Us was a daylong event at the Trinity Buoy Wharf on the bank of the River Thames. It was a day of participatory experiences, learning and exchange – including the launch of new research from the FrameWorks Institute into how the public thinks about marine conservation – to build on what works, strengthen existing connections, seed new ones and explore possible new approaches in communicating the value of the ocean in people’s lives. -CGF UK, [[https://twitter.com/hashtag/oceanvalue?src=hash|#Oceanvalue]] </blockquote> | The Ocean Connects Us was a daylong event at the Trinity Buoy Wharf on the bank of the River Thames. It was a day of participatory experiences, learning and exchange – including the launch of new research from the FrameWorks Institute into how the public thinks about marine conservation – to build on what works, strengthen existing connections, seed new ones and explore possible new approaches in communicating the value of the ocean in people’s lives. <cite>CGF UK, [[https://twitter.com/hashtag/oceanvalue?src=hash|#Oceanvalue]]</cite></blockquote> |
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| The Ocean Connects Us was designed to share and learn from each other about communicating the value of the ocean. After short framing speeches by [[https://gulbenkian.pt/en/the-foundation/our-team/board-of-trustees/martin-essayan-trustee-2010-2015/|Martin Essayan]] and [[https://www.zsl.org/users/heather-koldewey|Heather Koldewey]], the morning began with exchanging past experiences of [[the_ocean_connects_us#sense|valuing the ocean]], to then [[the_ocean_connects_us#observe|observe]] what is emerging from the participants’ current [[https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1920GDCo4WYSY9KOfUxwIlSpCzGM&ll=10.516256681185387%2C147.7559278499999&z=2|collaborations]]. During and after lunch the participants were invited to visit the [[http://www.trinitybuoywharf.com/whats-on/event/longplayer|Longplayer]] installation in the adjacent lighthouse and have spent time immersed in artworks by [[http://www.marieleneudecker.co.uk/|Mariele Neudecker]], [[http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/english/our-staff/clarke,-dr-john.aspx|John Wedgwood-Clarke]] and [[https://robmackay.net/|Rob Mackay]] (curated by [[http://invisibledust.com/|Invisible Dust]]). The afternoon was focused on investigating how to more [[the_ocean_connects_us#investigate|effectively communicate]] the value of the ocean, today and in the future. First by hearing from [[http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/staff-and-fellows.html#oneil|Moira O’Neil]] from the [[http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/|Frameworks Institute]] about their report [[https://gulbenkian.pt/uk-branch/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/03/Getting-Below-The-Surface.pdf|Getting Below The Surface]], then by [[the_ocean_connects_us#prototype|applying]] the institute's findings as recommendations to concrete projects. The conversation moved towards the future of the sea with a short speech by [[https://foresightprojects.blog.gov.uk/category/sea/|Henry Green]], as an introduction to the last participatory session. The participants distilled [[the_ocean_connects_us#enact|insights]] from the day as questions and principles towards a manifesto for an ocean friendly society. The event continued during an informal reception including speeches by the director of CGF UK [[https://gulbenkian.pt/uk-branch/about-us/team/andrew-barnett/ | The Ocean Connects Us was an event in which the participants were invited to share and learn from each other about communicating the value of the ocean. After short framing speeches by [[https://gulbenkian.pt/en/the-foundation/our-team/board-of-trustees/martin-essayan-trustee-2010-2015/|Martin Essayan]] and [[https://www.zsl.org/users/heather-koldewey|Heather Koldewey]], the morning began with exchanging past experiences of [[the_ocean_connects_us#sense|valuing the ocean]], to then [[the_ocean_connects_us#observe|observe]] what is emerging from the participants’ current [[https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1920GDCo4WYSY9KOfUxwIlSpCzGM&ll=10.516256681185387%2C147.7559278499999&z=2|collaborations]]. During lunch the participants were invited to visit the [[http://www.trinitybuoywharf.com/whats-on/event/longplayer|Longplayer]] installation in the adjacent lighthouse and have spent time immersed in artworks by [[http://www.marieleneudecker.co.uk/|Mariele Neudecker]], [[http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/english/our-staff/clarke,-dr-john.aspx|John Wedgwood-Clarke]] and [[https://robmackay.net/|Rob Mackay]] (curated by [[http://invisibledust.com/|Invisible Dust]]). The afternoon was focused on investigating how to more [[the_ocean_connects_us#investigate|effectively communicate]] the value of the ocean, today and in the future. First by hearing from [[http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/staff-and-fellows.html#oneil|Moira O’Neil]] from the [[http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/|Frameworks Institute]] about their report [[https://gulbenkian.pt/uk-branch/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/03/Getting-Below-The-Surface.pdf|Getting Below The Surface]], then by [[the_ocean_connects_us#prototype|applying]] the Institute's findings as recommendations to concrete projects. The conversation moved towards the future of the sea with a short speech by [[https://foresightprojects.blog.gov.uk/category/sea/|Henry Green]], as an introduction to the last participatory session. The participants distilled [[the_ocean_connects_us#enact|insights]] from the day as questions and principles towards a manifesto for an ocean friendly society. The event continued during an informal reception including speeches by the director of CGF UK [[https://gulbenkian.pt/uk-branch/about-us/team/andrew-barnett/ |
| |Andrew Barnett]] and a retired commodore and member of the Trinity House. The evening concluded with an informal [[the_ocean_connects_us#celebrate|celebration]] where the participants had a chance to decompress together in an inspiring ambience. | |Andrew Barnett]] and retired commodore Barry Bryant of the Seafarers UK. The evening concluded with an informal [[the_ocean_connects_us#celebrate|celebration]] where the participants had a chance to decompress together in an inspiring ambience. |
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| **Photos of the event, including a selection of notes from participatory sessions: [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/albums/72157677506966934|The Ocean Connects Us Album]]** | **Photos of the event, including a selection of notes from participatory sessions: [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/albums/72157677506966934|The Ocean Connects Us Album]]** |
| === Frame === | === Frame === |
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| {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/32397740124/}}\\ | {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/32397740124/}} |
| | //Martin Essayan// |
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| Introductory remarks by: | Introductory remarks by: |
| * Welcome by [[https://gulbenkian.pt/uk-branch/about-us/team/louisa-hooper/|Louisa Hooper]] | * Welcome by [[https://gulbenkian.pt/uk-branch/about-us/team/louisa-hooper/|Louisa Hooper]] |
| * [[https://gulbenkian.pt/en/the-foundation/our-team/board-of-trustees/martin-essayan-trustee-2010-2015/|Martin Essayan]] about the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and their engagement with the ocean, the motivation for the event and results of the pre-event delegate survey | * [[https://gulbenkian.pt/en/the-foundation/our-team/board-of-trustees/martin-essayan-trustee-2010-2015/|Martin Essayan]] about the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and their engagement with the ocean, the motivation for the event and [[https://app.box.com/s/loyarzohe7xstrpicanxwtc2vut1xsy1|results of the pre-event survey]]. (See also [[https://app.box.com/s/0sg544jb1oszslyn90dlyfimrzcfn0gg|photos]] shown during the presentation) |
| * [[https://www.zsl.org/users/heather-koldewey|Heather Koldewey]] about [[https://twitter.com/hashtag/oceanoptimism|#OceanOptimism]] and [[https://vimeo.com/142257147|Marine CoLABoration]] | * [[https://www.zsl.org/users/heather-koldewey|Heather Koldewey]] about [[https://twitter.com/hashtag/oceanoptimism|#OceanOptimism]] and [[https://vimeo.com/142257147|Marine CoLABoration]]. ([[https://app.box.com/s/1mchysesl5iyo39icp6jpfqmzfi7ppxj|Slides]]) |
| * [[http://fo.am/people/maja|Maja Kuzmanovic]] about the [[lab_approach_essay|lab approach]], the programme for the day including the participatory process and guidelines for engagement | * [[http://fo.am/people/maja|Maja Kuzmanovic]] about the [[lab_approach_essay|lab approach]], the participatory process and guidelines for engagement during the event |
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| * Broadening horizons, the unknown (opportunities) | * Broadening horizons, the unknown (opportunities) |
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| {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/33092266652/}} | {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/32467171843/}} |
| //Core values of the ocean, from one of fifteen breakout groups// | //Core values of the ocean, from one of fifteen breakout groups// |
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| === Observe === | === Observe === |
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| Participatory session: Collaborative ecosystems: a broad picture of the current situation | Participatory session: Collaborative ecosystems, a broad picture of the current situation |
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| What are some interesting examples of working together to communicate the value of the ocean, or more generally to improve the health of the ocean? Each participant described one example of current or realised work. The examples were discussed and visually mapped. | What are some interesting examples of working together to communicate the value of the ocean, or more generally to improve the health of the ocean? Each participant described one example of current or realised work. The examples were discussed and visually mapped. |
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| //Examples of project descriptions and collaborative ecosystems mapping// | //Examples of project descriptions and collaborative ecosystems mapping// |
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| How do the collaborations relate to each other? What challenges, questions and hypotheses are emerging? | How do the collaborations relate to each other? What challenges, questions and hypotheses are emerging? |
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| * **Communication:** Communicating, listening, finding the right language (hope, parley…), translating language between partners; Building trust and commitment, openness of communication; Ocean literacy, learning and communication is key to mainstreaming environmental messaging | * **Communication:** Communicating, listening, finding the right language (hope, parley…). Translating languages between (collaboration) partners. Building trust and commitment. Openness of communication. Ocean literacy, learning and communication are key to mainstreaming environmental messaging. |
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| * **Values:** Finding shared values ('win-win'), finding common ground (while acknowledging complexity), talking about values, planning, collaboration, compromise and trade-offs; Finding connections, uniting stakeholders, celebrating success; Inclusive engagement, fostering relationships, working together, forging new/unusual alliances, diversity of skills and perspectives as added value, including mavericks | |
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| * **Common themes and approaches:** Sustainable seafood, developing our knowledge and understanding, ocean protection, physical connection to oceans, cultural connections to oceans (including pleasure and recreation), ocean pollution (including plastic and acidification), ethics, positive focus, fun, de/resensitising, reactive/responsive, happiness, social conflict resolution, finding allies, consensus building, convening, research, social intervention, building public support, providing support to enable change, appealing to people’s self-interest, What values work? There are different values for different audiences. How do you speak to those values? Can we afford doing this tailored value-based communication? We all want significant scale and ambition; we use raising public awareness as a tool to reach the goal. | * **Values:** Finding shared values ('win-win'). Finding common ground (while acknowledging complexity). Talking about values can lead to planning and collaboration, as well as compromises and trade-offs. Finding connections, uniting stakeholders, celebrating success. Inclusive engagement and fostering relationships. Forging new/unusual alliances. Seeing diversity of skills and perspectives as added value (including mavericks). |
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| * **Collaboration**; Leadership, governance, creating a political space, getting citizen mandate to force political and corporate worlds to act urgently; All partners need to see its benefits; Overcoming organisational pressures (recognition, fundraising, size of groups, vested interests, losing egos…); There are different roles in collaborations connected to partnerships and a sense of identity (including funders, volunteers and different 'personalities'); Differences in approaches: critical/friend/partner/advisor/facilitator; systemic change or focus on single audience/issue/locale; Benefits of collaboration: exchanging, curiosity, interaction, engagement, communication, community; Collaborative ecosystems include collaborations with different sectors - NGOs with industry (partnerships, metrics)/government (accountability, access)/communities (citizen science, education, ethical consumerism…). | * **Common themes and approaches:** Sustainable seafood. Developing our knowledge and understanding. Ocean protection. Physical connection to oceans. Cultural connections to oceans (including pleasure and recreation). Ocean pollution (including plastic and acidification). Ethics, positive focus, fun, resensitising, happiness. Social conflict resolution, finding allies, consensus building, convening, research, social intervention, building public support, providing support to enable change (including appealing to people’s self-interest). What values work? There are different values for different audiences. How do we speak to those values? Can we afford doing this tailored value-based communication? We all want significant scale and ambition. We use raising public awareness as a tool to reach the goal. |
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| * **Challenges:** money, language (common/right), mobilisation (buy-in form key players), distrust of science, overcoming self-interest, prioritising, balancing the economic and intrinsic values, framing positively, how to make the long term tangible, public disconnect, winners+losers paradigm, lack of understanding about cultural motivations and value; how to make collaboration sustainable (when funding finishes); how to get communities to take ownership to act themselves (empowerment); the scale of the ocean is a challenge - it is vast and there are so many actors needing to collaborate; Scalability, disconnect between social and ecological needs, accountability; Awareness of wider landscape; trust in finding mutual goals away from logo-ego... | * **Collaboration**; Leadership. Governance. Creating a political space. Getting citizen mandate to force political and corporate worlds to act urgently. All partners need to see collaborative benefits. Collaboration requires overcoming organisational pressures. There are different roles and identities in collaborations; Differences in approaches need to be articulated: critical/friend/partner/advisor/facilitator, etc. Some people work on systemic change, others focus on single audience/issue/locale. Benefits of collaboration: exchange, curiosity, interaction, engagement, communication, community. Collaborative ecosystems include collaborations with different sectors - NGOs with industry (partnerships, metrics)/government (accountability, access)/communities (citizen science, education, ethical consumerism…). |
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| * **Impact:** Innovation + scale, optimising resources, multiplier effects; Noise vs actual impact (understanding what true impact would be); Specificity of objectives and vision is important to align strategies, target the right audiences and improve measurability. What outcomes do we want? Save the ocean! Halt and reverse threats. Ocean is used and valued, there is a balance cf. interests. More people care, feel empowered and take action. There needs to be a legislative change. | * **Challenges:** Money. Language (common/right). The scale of the ocean - it is vast and there are so many actors needing to collaborate. Mobilisation (buy-in form key players). Distrust of science. Overcoming self-interest. Prioritising. Rebalancing the economic and intrinsic values. Framing positively. Making the long term tangible. Public disconnect. Winners+losers paradigm. Lack of understanding about cultural motivations and value. Making collaborations sustainable (esp. without funding). Empowering communities to take ownership to act themselves. Scalability, disconnect between social and ecological needs. Accountability. Awareness of wider landscape. Trust in finding mutual goals away from logo-ego... |
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| | * **Impact:** Innovation + scale. Optimising resources. Multiplier effects. Noise vs actual impact (understanding what true impact would be). Specificity of objectives and vision is important to align strategies, target the right audiences and improve measurability. What outcomes do we want? Save the ocean! A legislative change. Halt and reverse threats. Ocean is used and valued, A balance of different interests. More people care, feel empowered and take action. |
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| //Collaborative Ecosystems, mapping exercise by "The Beach" breakout group// | //Collaborative Ecosystems, mapping exercise by "The Beach" breakout group// |
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| In addition to the pieces that were curated as part of the programme, the participants had an opportunity to visit the [[http://www.trinitybuoywharf.com/whats-on/event/longplayer|Longplayer]] installation in the adjacent lighthouse. | In addition to the pieces that were curated as part of the programme, the participants had an opportunity to visit the [[http://www.trinitybuoywharf.com/whats-on/event/longplayer|Longplayer]] installation in the adjacent lighthouse. |
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| | //Artist presentation by John Wedgwood-Clarke and Rob Mackay// |
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| === Investigate === | === Investigate === |
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| Presentation by [[http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/staff-and-fellows.html#oneil|Moira O’Neil]] from the [[http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/|Frameworks Institute]] about their report [[https://gulbenkian.pt/uk-branch/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/03/Getting-Below-The-Surface.pdf|Getting Below The Surface]]: Mapping the gaps between expert and public understanding of the ocean and marine conservation in the United Kingdom | Presentation by [[http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/staff-and-fellows.html#oneil|Moira O’Neil]] from the [[http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/|Frameworks Institute]] about their report [[https://gulbenkian.pt/uk-branch/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2017/03/Getting-Below-The-Surface.pdf|Getting Below The Surface]]: Mapping the gaps between expert and public understanding of the ocean and marine conservation in the United Kingdom. |
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| [[https://app.box.com/s/h248n3ya7tofw9g2lr8u4a829e1ssh9y| | [[https://app.box.com/s/h248n3ya7tofw9g2lr8u4a829e1ssh9y| |
| Room recording of Dr O'Neil's presentation]] (mp3) | Room recording of Dr O'Neil's presentation]] (mp3)\\ |
| | [[https://app.box.com/s/s5h46bljail8lsqg21ve6okyxziw5hsa|Slides from the presentation]] (pdf) |
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| | //Frameworks presentation by Dr Moira O'Neil// |
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| ==Summary of Frameworks recommendations== | ==Summary of Frameworks recommendations== |
| Participatory session: How to apply insights from the Frameworks research to some of the participants’ initiatives? How could the changes be prototyped with minimum time and resources? In a collective consulting session, the participants offered a set of suggestions for the people involved, as well as recommendations that could be more widely applicable. | Participatory session: How to apply insights from the Frameworks research to some of the participants’ initiatives? How could the changes be prototyped with minimum time and resources? In a collective consulting session, the participants offered a set of suggestions for the people involved, as well as recommendations that could be more widely applicable. |
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| //Two examples of project recommendations from two breakout groups// | //Two examples of project recommendations from two breakout groups// |
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| * What are our own assumptions? How do we understand them? How do we work with them? | * What are our own assumptions? How do we understand them? How do we work with them? |
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| {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/33092270652/}} | {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/32898932150/}} |
| //One of fifteen Ocean Friendly Society posters// | //One of fifteen Ocean Friendly Society posters// |
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| The formal part of the event ended with a short collaborative experiment, where the participants created and improvised a short vocal composition, based on messages they’d like to take away from the event. | The formal part of the event ended with a short collaborative experiment, where the participants created and improvised a short vocal composition, based on messages they’d like to take away from the event. |
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| Room recording of the [[https://app.box.com/s/hbo6bzmp9u0vhlyo25cgfwm87mn2vd12|vocal compostion]] (mp3). | Room recording of the [[https://app.box.com/s/hbo6bzmp9u0vhlyo25cgfwm87mn2vd12|vocal composition]] (mp3). |
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| The group was invited for an informal reception, opened by the director of CGF UK Andrew Barnett. | The group was invited for an informal reception, opened by the director of CGF UK Andrew Barnett. |
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| {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/32427448933/}}\\ | {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/32427448933/}} |
| | //Andrew Barnett// |
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| //Event design by CGF UK and FoAM// | //Event design by CGF UK and FoAM// |
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| {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/33206966406/}} | {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/33126260422/}} |
| //'Starfish evaluation', filled by the participants at the end of the event// | //'Starfish evaluation', filled by the participants at the end of the event// |
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