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| We begin the second year of Marine CoLAB by working through what the participants thought needs improving: | We begin the second year of Marine CoLAB by working through what the participants thought needs improving: |
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| //__Knowing who we are, where we go and how to do it (sustainably, together with our organisations and stakeholders)__// | //Knowing who we are, where we go and how to do it (sustainably, together with our organisations and stakeholders)// |
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| We have begun discussing these questions, but haven’t reached any clear conclusions. The answers to the questions "who are we?" and "where are we going?" (the vision and mission of Marine CoLAB) both include **values connecting people and the ocean** at their core. Shared values, conflicting values, gaps between values and values in need of aligning are all challenges that can be tackled using a **values based approach** which can function as a **lens** to help select, design, communicate and evaluate Marine CoLAB and its activities, as well as being at the heart of a working **theory of change** (TOC) for Marine CoLAB. It hasn’t yet been decided whether there is one or more TOCs in Marine CoLAB, but it was generally agreed that it was important for the TOC to be context specific, in order to enable a diversity of voices. The values based approach should uncover, understand, recognise, align, amplify and enable a range of values that co-exist alongside the currently dominant economic valuing of oceans. This could lead towards a significant values shift and drive the behavioural changes needed to improve the health of oceans. The value shift is an important element of the vision for Marine CoLAB, which would be achieved by applying a lab approach (continuous iterative feedback loops of questioning, experimenting, planing, connecting, etc.) in three focus areas: governance/policy, corporate and public awareness. The lab approach is deeply embedded in the strategy of Marine CoLAB as discussed during the previous workshops. The CoLAB strategy is built on an experimental attitude of continuous exploration and learning. The change-making and change-showing projects designed, enabled and aligned by the MarCoLAB incubator are designed to be tested, replicated and adapted in different contexts. The CoLAB as a whole can be seen as an experiment in itself, as well as a collaborative environment in which to develop experiments to further the CoLAB’s mission. This includes looking at MPAs and marine planning, capacity building, communication, learning and education. There are currently 19 experiments in the MarCoLAB incubator (as documented) some of which are joint projects such as SUPB Free London or Game On, existing initiatives that can benefit from inclusion in the Lab (e.g. Blue New Deal, Common Ground), or project ideas which could become collaborative experiments (e.g. River Academy and Ocean Schools, or Sustainable Fishing in Portugal). | We have begun discussing these questions, but haven’t reached any clear conclusions. The answers to the questions "who are we?" and "where are we going?" (the vision and mission of Marine CoLAB) both include **values connecting people and the ocean** at their core. Shared values, conflicting values, gaps between values and values in need of aligning are all challenges that can be tackled using a **values based approach** which can function as a **lens** to help select, design, communicate and evaluate Marine CoLAB and its activities, as well as being at the heart of a working **theory of change** (TOC) for Marine CoLAB. It hasn’t yet been decided whether there is one or more TOCs in Marine CoLAB, but it was generally agreed that it was important for the TOC to be context specific, in order to enable a diversity of voices. The values based approach should uncover, understand, recognise, align, amplify and enable a range of values that co-exist alongside the currently dominant economic valuing of oceans. This could lead towards a significant values shift and drive the behavioural changes needed to improve the health of oceans. The value shift is an important element of the vision for Marine CoLAB, which would be achieved by applying a lab approach (continuous iterative feedback loops of questioning, experimenting, planing, connecting, etc.) in three focus areas: governance/policy, corporate and public awareness. The lab approach is deeply embedded in the strategy of Marine CoLAB as discussed during the previous workshops. The CoLAB strategy is built on an experimental attitude of continuous exploration and learning. The change-making and change-showing projects designed, enabled and aligned by the MarCoLAB incubator are designed to be tested, replicated and adapted in different contexts. The CoLAB as a whole can be seen as an experiment in itself, as well as a collaborative environment in which to develop experiments to further the CoLAB’s mission. This includes looking at MPAs and marine planning, capacity building, communication, learning and education. There are currently 19 experiments in the MarCoLAB incubator (as documented) some of which are joint projects such as SUPB Free London or Game On, existing initiatives that can benefit from inclusion in the Lab (e.g. Blue New Deal, Common Ground), or project ideas which could become collaborative experiments (e.g. River Academy and Ocean Schools, or Sustainable Fishing in Portugal). |
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| Distilled from personal stories of the participants, illustrated with an object or image: | Distilled from personal stories of the participants, illustrated with an object or image: |
| - Giles; fishing boat, evolutionary adaptation to living in canoes, oily skins, women with large lungs, "living like seals" book; Spidrift, Peter Reason | * Giles; fishing boat, evolutionary adaptation to living in canoes, oily skins, women with large lungs, "living like seals" book; Spidrift, Peter Reason |
| - Louisa; turner inspired seascape; sense of awe, aesthetic response, power, viewing form the land | * Louisa; turner inspired seascape; sense of awe, aesthetic response, power, viewing form the land |
| - Andrew; vast blue grey, endless horizon, vastness, seascape, experience of immensity, issues "big for individuals, small for the ocean (as totality) | * Andrew; vast blue grey, endless horizon, vastness, seascape, experience of immensity, issues "big for individuals, small for the ocean (as totality) |
| - Sandy; mug which says "save the ocean' on the side, fish made from finger prints, with space for the holder's fingerprints, work on trying to stop fishing in protected sites, legal tools which make the "system work", conservation and fishing working together, connecting people to create a shared value of the ocean, fishermen, regulators, public, photo of Tim [name?] | * Sandy; mug which says "save the ocean' on the side, fish made from finger prints, with space for the holder's fingerprints, work on trying to stop fishing in protected sites, legal tools which make the "system work", conservation and fishing working together, connecting people to create a shared value of the ocean, fishermen, regulators, public, photo of Tim [name?] |
| - Amy; Inuit carving of a seal, challenges of seal hunting as tradition practice of Inuit, disconnect between environment and consumption. working with conflicting and divergent values (set to the music of Tanya Tagaq) | * Amy; Inuit carving of a seal, challenges of seal hunting as tradition practice of Inuit, disconnect between environment and consumption. working with conflicting and divergent values (set to the music of Tanya Tagaq) |
| - Mirella; a beach pebble from when she moved from London to live by the sea as a child, sound of the sea, waves over stones, shingles, background noise, a small stone as a connection to something that is bigger, more turbulent, powerful than the 'everyday'. what is the equivalent of 'finding a pebble in the pocket' for people? | * Mirella; a beach pebble from when she moved from London to live by the sea as a child, sound of the sea, waves over stones, shingles, background noise, a small stone as a connection to something that is bigger, more turbulent, powerful than the 'everyday'. what is the equivalent of 'finding a pebble in the pocket' for people? |
| - Aniol; plastic octopus, the time as a child when he made an octopus farm during his holidays on costa brava, dropping building bricks at 3~4 metres depth as a place for octopuses to live. snorkelling. | * Aniol; plastic octopus, the time as a child when he made an octopus farm during his holidays on costa brava, dropping building bricks at 3~4 metres depth as a place for octopuses to live. snorkelling. |
| - Sarah; photo from her kitchen table, a family holiday on the southern Turkish coast, near a Roman port, sand spit and a place for turtle nesting, and now a protected area for turtles which has increased its level of tourism. people in completely different attire and stages of life (from tiny bikinis to full burkas, the young and energetic, the frail and old). There have been more people in space than have crossed the pacific alone. | * Sarah; photo from her kitchen table, a family holiday on the southern Turkish coast, near a Roman port, sand spit and a place for turtle nesting, and now a protected area for turtles which has increased its level of tourism. people in completely different attire and stages of life (from tiny bikinis to full burkas, the young and energetic, the frail and old). There have been more people in space than have crossed the pacific alone. |
| - Manuel; sea as psychological comfort, something he misses in London having grown up on the coast, something ineffable. | * Manuel; sea as psychological comfort, something he misses in London having grown up on the coast, something ineffable. |
| - Sue; a photo of her sitting in a rock pool as a child, transition from the grass veld to coast, they travelled up to 12 hours to get to the coast for holidays. open ended discussions are often the best ways of making a connection with someone around shared values on the coast, whether a fishing port in Cornwall or beach in Sri Lanka | * Sue; a photo of her sitting in a rock pool as a child, transition from the grass veld to coast, they travelled up to 12 hours to get to the coast for holidays. open ended discussions are often the best ways of making a connection with someone around shared values on the coast, whether a fishing port in Cornwall or beach in Sri Lanka |
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| ==== Upcoming meetings ==== | ==== Upcoming workshops ==== |
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| In 2015 the Marine CoLAB focused on establishing and enabling the collaboration. In 2016 the aim is to start "doing it (the lab, the experiments)", to learn what the Marine CoLAB could be like in practice. CGF would like the group to start piloting what they’ve been talking about. In order to do that a 'proto-draft' infrastructure/architecture/operating/business model needs to be designed and implemented (as an experiment) to enable quickly making decisions. This would be evaluated throughout 2016 through frameworks, analysis of the overall approach etc. | In 2015 the Marine CoLAB focused on establishing and enabling the collaboration. In 2016 the aim is to start "doing it (the lab, the experiments)", to learn what the Marine CoLAB could be like in practice. CGF would like the group to start piloting what they’ve been talking about. In order to do that a 'proto-draft' infrastructure/architecture/operating/business model needs to be designed and implemented (as an experiment) to enable quickly making decisions. This would be evaluated throughout 2016 through frameworks, analysis of the overall approach etc. |
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