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- | ==== Marine CoLABoration Workshop - March 2015 ==== | + | ===== Marine CoLABoration Workshop - March 2015 ===== |
+ | Second in a series of four scoping workshops, part of the [[start|Marine CoLaboration]] initiative on Valuing the Oceans, by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in London, UK. | ||
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+ | ====Participants==== | ||
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+ | Andrew Barnett, Louisa Hooper, Sandy Luk, Nicola Frost, Amy Pryor, Aniol Esteban, Giles Bristow, Sue Ranger, Andrew Farmer, Mirella von Lindenfels, Filipa Saldanha, Catarina Grilo, Sarah Ridley | ||
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+ | ===== Framing ===== | ||
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+ | ==== Marine CoLAB ==== | ||
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+ | The introduction from Louisa Hooper focused on the reasons why the Foundation decided to take the Marine CoLABoration approach and outline a possible trajectory and opportunities in the coming year. | ||
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+ | The Gulbenkian Oceans Initiative was launched just over two years ago in Lisbon with a case study in Portugal and a range of public understanding and policy influencing initiatives. The focus has been on the economic valuation of marine ecosystem services. In the UK, the initiative was designed to connect to, promote and complement the work the Lisbon branch was engaged with, and also to address the needs and gaps specific to the UK. The initiative in the UK began with the commission of a scoping report from Forum for the Future, which suggested a number of critical issues, yet underlying them all was the need to make ocean issues more ‘human’ – to show people how and why the health of the ocean matters to them. The report showed that while there is a lot of information available, it is often ' | ||
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+ | Other programmes developed by the Foundation around the same time suggested that there is an appetite for collaboration, | ||
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+ | Hence, the Marine CoLaboration strategy focused around increasing the capacity of the sector to communicate the value of the ocean more effectively, | ||
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+ | Quite what communicating the value of the ocean means is up to this group to explore and decide upon (no doubt with constructive disagreements along the way). There is an initial two-year timeframe, which the Foundation wishes to make practical and useful, as well as providing the time to reflect, talk, think and try things out. It would be helpful for us all to bear this in mind as we rush to DO! | ||
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+ | In terms of outcomes, the Foundation has some ideas about what might emerge, perhaps a single new initiative, perhaps a number of different things, perhaps support for building capacity within organisations. However, the outcomes should ultimately emerge from the LAB rather than CGF dictating process and results. | ||
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+ | Looking ahead, by the end of the workshop in May we aim to have a few clear areas of focus that the LAB wants to explore. We are planning to have a meeting in July, a two-day gathering in Lisbon in September and another meeting towards the end of the year. We are also planning an event in the autumn which will explore for a wider audience communicating the value of the ocean. | ||
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+ | Immediate opportunities: | ||
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+ | ==== 2nd Marine CoLAB ==== | ||
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+ | Framing by Maja Kuzmanovic | ||
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+ | The second workshop of the Marine CoLAB builds on ideas and suggestions that emerged during the [[workshop_201501|first meeting]] in January. We’ll begin at the individual scale and ask what personalities, | ||
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+ | The experiment designs will form the basis of the first concrete Marine CoLAB collaborations. It might seem too soon to be designing an experiment in an afternoon, but the participants will have a chance to refine and develop the ideas after the workshop. Marine CoLAB would like to encourage an iterative approach. So, while the participants may have big ideas, the challenge is to translate this idea into realistic experiments that can be used to test the idea starting from tomorrow. Rather than establishing a monolithic ambitious two year plan, the participants are invited to use heuristics and learn by doing. Over the course of Marine CoLAB, as they get used to working together the plan is to then move on to developing larger and more complex experiments and initiatives. | ||
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+ | In parallel throughout the day we’d like to collect feedback about the Marine coLAB process, content and facilitation. The participants are invited to record their thoughts based on two questions: 'what went well?' and 'what could we improve?' | ||
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+ | To summarise, in the second workshop we’ll look at what the participants want to contribute to Marine CoLAB, which quests and challenges are present in the group and which specific experiments can be designed to respond to these challenges. | ||
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+ | ===== Challenges/ | ||
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+ | After a warm-up game of [[http:// | ||
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+ | ==== Job Creation vs. Marine Conservation ==== | ||
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+ | Hosted by Aniol Esteban | ||
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+ | Discussion: There are tensions between job creation and marine conservation, | ||
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+ | ** Challenge: changing (negative) perception of Marine NGOs and reconciling the business/ | ||
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+ | ==== Systemic Interventions ==== | ||
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+ | Hosted by Giles Bristow | ||
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+ | Discussion: How do we ensure that interventions we make are systemic or have an impact at a system level? There are huge, urgent and systemic challenges, where a distinct individual doesn' | ||
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+ | ** Challenge: It is possible to create systemic change by making the whole greater then the sum of its parts. The challenge is to co-ordinate [xxxxxx] and levers for change. How to [xxxx] about the use of levers (when, where, how)? ** | ||
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+ | ==== Co-ordinated experiments ==== | ||
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+ | Hosted by Nicola Frost | ||
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+ | Discussion: How to select a single issue to coordinate around and try approaching the issue form a systemic perspective to create significant change? It’s important to bring in learning, skills and [xxxx] from different organisations in order to create systemic change. How can the results from a local experiment (e.g. the Thames fisheries) be bridged to other issues, creating an understanding of systemic impacts? Can a small scale system be used to inform an experiment on a larger scale? Can a proof of concept be scaled and replicated to influence systemic change? How can this be done strategically, | ||
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+ | ** Challenge: Creating an experiment (a ' | ||
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+ | ==== Cultural dimension ==== | ||
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+ | Hosted by Sue Ranger and Amy Prior | ||
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+ | Discussion: The connection between the people and the sea is important for communicating the value of oceans, but when does this communication actually create change? The reality is that we are competing for people’s attention. It might help to bring Marine CoLAB to other sectors (outside of our comfort zone, working with basic income, housing and other issues), as well as create visible proofs of concept. Relating human health issues with marine health could be an interesting approach, by connecting the unseen to daily life. Could one of the ways to communicating the value of oceans be to focus on health/ | ||
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+ | ** Challenge: what happens if we DON’T take account of the benefits we gain from the marine environment? | ||
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+ | ==== Engaging with rules ==== | ||
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+ | Hosted by Sandy Luk | ||
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+ | Discussion: engaging with the public during legislative processes can be tricky (and in some situations can actually dilute the result). A good example is the EU fisheries policy [c.f.], where specific problems were hung on other issues and regulations, | ||
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+ | ** Challenge: when is engaging the public the best way to change the rules? How is this done best? ** | ||
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+ | ====== Experiments ====== | ||
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+ | Using the challenges/ | ||
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+ | Details of each experiment can be found on the following pages; | ||
+ | * [[system change experiment|System change]] | ||
+ | * [[perception experiments|Changing perceptions]] | ||
+ | * [[charm offensive experiment|Charm offensive]] | ||
+ | * [[valuing what matters experiment|Valuing what matters]] | ||
+ | * [[gone fishing (in the Thames) experiment|Gone fishing (in the Thames)]] | ||
+ | * [[game on experiment|Game on!]] | ||
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+ | ===== Notes & annotations===== | ||
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+ | More photos: [[https:// | ||
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