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- | ==== Marine | + | ==== Marine |
- | [[start|Marine CoLAB]] workshop | + | The first [[start|Marine CoLAB]] workshop |
- | ==== Participants | + | **Participants**: Giles Bristow, Aniol Esteban, Louisa Hooper, Sandy Luk, Andrew Farmer, Amy Pryor, |
- | Louisa Hooper, Sandy Luk, Amy Pryor, Aniol Esteban, Giles Bristow, Andrew Farmer, Sue Ranger (online), Mirella von Lindenfels, and Sarah Ridley. | + | **Facilitators**; |
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+ | More photos can be found in [[https:// | ||
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- | ====Framing==== | + | ==== Framing ==== |
+ | == Andrew Barnett == | ||
- | ====Strategy==== | + | The CoLAB has impressive outputs so far, but more focused work is needed to bring implicit ideas to the surface and clarify what the LAB is about. What may be needed at the moment is something like a Stern report for the ocean (costs, benefits and cost of delayed action) as there is a window of a few years to press these issues internationally. It is time to pick up the pace and shape Marine CoLAB’s operating model. CGF is discussing the possibility of bringing in business consultants who may be able to translate the work of the CoLAB into a model with financial sustainability. Institutional buy in from within organisations remains a challenge - how can we find ways to share ideas and formally engage the organisations that the Marine CoLAB participants part of. |
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+ | == Maja Kuzmanovic== | ||
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+ | 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, | ||
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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?" | ||
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+ | This is the story until now, the place from where we continue today. We begin by clarifying values connecting people and oceans, beginning with the individuals in the group. We’ll attempt to find some shared patterns in the individual values and proceed to examine what the " | ||
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+ | Throughout the day we will collect open questions which should help us design the agenda for the CoLAB sessions in February and March. We will begin with two questions which we know need addressing, but won’t be discussed in detail today: | ||
+ | * Communication and stakeholder management | ||
+ | * Marine CoLAB governance, operating and business models (for 2016 and beyond). | ||
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+ | ==== People & oceans ==== | ||
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+ | What values illustrate heartfelt connections between people and the ocean? | ||
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+ | Shared values: | ||
+ | * Awe of the vastness, immensity, beauty, power, sound of the ocean, while experiencing the smallness of a single human being in, on or next to the ocean | ||
+ | * Engaging with the Earth: help people experience the connection with oceans (a pebble in a pocket) and its diversity, living with the environment and experiencing how it changes people (physically, | ||
+ | * Collaboration: | ||
+ | * Diversity: There isn’t one experiences of the sea but many, and as many co-existing (and often conflicting) values - we shouldn’t impose values on people, but find ways to align, amplify or engage with them | ||
+ | * Togetherness: | ||
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+ | Distilled from personal stories of the participants, | ||
+ | * Giles; fishing boat, evolutionary adaptation to living in canoes, oily skins, women with large lungs, " | ||
+ | * 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, | ||
+ | * Sandy; mug which says "save the ocean' on the side, fish made from finger prints, with space for the holder' | ||
+ | * 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 ' | ||
+ | * 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. | ||
+ | * 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 | ||
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+ | ==== Values based approach ==== | ||
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+ | The values based approach aims to uncover, understand, recognise, align, enable and amplify values to create significant change, a value shift away from the dominance of economic value of oceans, towards inclusion of a wider range of intrinsic and extrinsic | ||
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+ | Possibly " | ||
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+ | **Hypothesis: | ||
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+ | How could this hypothesis be tested? The Marine CoLAB could include **three workstreams**, | ||
+ | * Exploring **new thinking** and philosophical striving (a think-tank) towards adapting or changing the paradigm of economic growth and exploring how we can do things otherwise, how to " | ||
+ | * **Testing and learning** programme of experiments and projects (a lab), creating Marine CoLAB experiments from scratch, aimed to test a values based approach | ||
+ | * **Disseminating** (sharing, connecting, amplifying…) of ideas and best practices, finding ways to communicate existing projects from a values perspective | ||
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+ | ==== The value of Marine CoLAB ===== | ||
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+ | In a short writing exercise, we looked at what value Marine CoLAB brought to the participants and theri organisations after the first year of work. We asked: | ||
+ | * How has participation in the Marine CoLAB benefited you so far? What outcomes has it had for you personally and/or professionally? | ||
+ | * What about for your organisation? | ||
+ | * Has Marine CoLAB had an effect on particular projects or initiatives that you are involved in? If so, which ones and how? | ||
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+ | A few responses... | ||
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+ | "It has given me the space to stop and think about all my work from a distance and with a different perspective; | ||
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+ | "This is genuinely the cutting-edge of social change and I cannot stress enough what a unique opportunity this is." | ||
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+ | "space to think and experiment with different ways of thinking, opened my mind to new ways of thinking (and) learning from others" | ||
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+ | "The COLAB has provided new ideas, evidence, contacts, etc to challenge and stimulate my work. Further, it has also made me think about new ideas beyond a professional level. The COLAB partners provide new context to examine issues and are a great network." | ||
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+ | "It has grown my professional network and expanded my horizons and helped me link local to global ideas & solutions." | ||
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+ | " | ||
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+ | ==== Mission ==== | ||
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+ | We **exist because** current solutions are not creating the impact required to meet the **scale** of threat facing the oceans | ||
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+ | We **tackle issues together** by **creating a space** to think differently and **experiment** with new ways of approaching problems | ||
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+ | We **bring together experts** from different fields we **catalyse** new and more effective solutions to marine issues | ||
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+ | We **aim** to **shift the values** humans place on the oceans | ||
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+ | **The Marine CoLABoration is** a collective of organisations working together to tackle marine issues | ||
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+ | * **Problem**: | ||
+ | * **Impact**: We aim to [shift] the values humans place on the oceans to find effective solutions to marine issues | ||
+ | * **Approach**: | ||
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+ | NOTE: //(Still in need of editing, to emphasise the LAB approach and values connecting people and oceans)// | ||
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+ | What is our ambition? | ||
+ | Marine CoLAB brings together different approaches to working with values in a collaborative, | ||
+ | * outcomes for the projects | ||
+ | * outpaces for the lab | ||
+ | * outcomes for the world: " | ||
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+ | ==== The LAB Approach ==== | ||
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+ | What appears to be missing from the mission is an emphasis on the “LAB” aspect of the CoLAB – that it is a Laboratory for learning about how to create systemic change through a values based approach. i.e. why was this set up as a LAB as opposed to just a network or discussion group? etc. The LAB should be considered as ** a means to an end**, and its purpose is to overcome the problem that current solutions aren’t creating the impact required to meet the **scale** of threats facing the oceans. In order to do that, there should be a more receptive operating environment for the organisations and their initiatives. The CoLAB could be an example of such an environment. This operating environment should allow different approaches and values to co-exist, there should be a willingness to co-operate, to work with values that connect people and oceans in order to enable positive actions. | ||
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+ | What is a **Lab for system change**? A lab is a place for people to **collaborate**, | ||
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+ | Action research cycle could be a framework to keep the focus of continual inquiry for the lab, and helps avoid a too narrow focus on specific projects. A CoLAB would include diverse perspectives, | ||
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+ | Existing examples: Finance lab, Forum for the Future’s Lab for System Change, other public sector and social innovation Labs (https:// | ||
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- | ==== Next Session | + | === Action research cycle === |
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+ | The action research cycle consists of four elements: | ||
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+ | * **Questions and knowledge**: | ||
+ | * **Plan and Strategy**: How are we going to address these questions? What is our overall approach? How will we organise collaboration, | ||
+ | * **Action** (in the CoLAB these are the experiments): | ||
+ | * **Observe and Reflect**: What insights do you now have about your questions? What have we learnt? //How do we learn? This is still the weakest link for Marine CoLAB, it needs more emphasis on ' | ||
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+ | ( ( ( nik to add diagram ) ) ) | ||
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+ | Before coming up with a plan for 2016 and a longer term strategy for Marine CoLAB in 2017 and beyond, the action research cycle could be used to evaluate the open questions, which can be tackled in the Marine CoLAB sessions in February and March, which will focus on **how will we operationalise the LAB**. | ||
+ | * Knowledge: questions around values, systems, the lab… which knowledge needs to be acquired from outside, etc. | ||
+ | * Plan: questions about who, what, when, how… related to membership, decision-making, | ||
+ | * Action: questions about alignment of experiments, | ||
+ | * Reflection: questions related to learning, impact, evaluation, inquiry and feedback loops, sharing, dissemination, | ||
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+ | For the full set of **open questions** see: [[Action Research Questions]] | ||
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+ | //Learning pathway// | ||
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+ | ==== MarCoLAB Incubator ==== | ||
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+ | Benefit of the incubator: Working with existing projects can focus conversations by working with tangible outputs. People working on the projects are excited about them and the LAB can benefit from an " | ||
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+ | The challenges: | ||
+ | * How to bring the projects together? how to create a shared agenda? how to maintain the network? | ||
+ | * Can we define what mean by Values-Based-Approach in a clearer way? Can we translate what we mean by Values-Based-Approach into a user-friendly, | ||
+ | * How to align all these forces – projects – energies – constituencies around a common Marine CoLAB agenda? What is this agenda? what are the principles and values that underpin it? | ||
+ | * Can we co-create a common agenda together (e.g. a Marine Campaign Lab)? | ||
+ | * What infrastructure is needed (i.e. a NEON type of platform)? | ||
+ | * How do we give our diverse stakeholders a voice (i.e. a Spokesperson network trained to speak on key topics)? | ||
+ | * Are there effective frames that we need to use to align messaging/ | ||
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+ | ==Incubator approaches== | ||
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+ | What could be the approaches of the MarCoLAB incubator? | ||
+ | * To design new projects as experiments based on values | ||
+ | * (Bucket #1) "Our projects" | ||
+ | * (Bucket #2) " | ||
+ | * (Bucket #3) " | ||
+ | * to fill the gaps between existing initiatives | ||
+ | * to test different approaches to values (e.g. research on frames) | ||
+ | * To enable and amplify existing work, encouraging continuous inquiry | ||
+ | * (Bucket #4) " | ||
+ | * (Bucket #5) " | ||
+ | * Feeding in: Extract learning from existing projects; Knowing what other people are doing (being aware of the whole world out there), inviting external experts to complement and augment knowledge of the group | ||
+ | * Reaching out: Use CoLAB to learn and spread learning across a wide range of projects and initiatives; | ||
+ | * To incorporate value questions in organisational DNA of participating institutions and other stakeholders | ||
+ | * (Bucket #6) Include an explicit 'value statement' | ||
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+ | == Current and emerging projects as possible candidates for the MarCoLAB incubator == | ||
+ | * Sustainable Seafood in Portugal (Sandy – ClientEarth) | ||
+ | * Illegal fishing in MPAs (Sandy – ClientEarth) | ||
+ | * Ocean Schools (Sue – MCS) | ||
+ | * MPA campaign (Sue – MCS) | ||
+ | * Common Ground (Sue – MCS) | ||
+ | * Capturing our coast (Sue – MCS) | ||
+ | * Beach-watch (Sue – MCS) | ||
+ | * Co-management (Nic – FFI) | ||
+ | * Capacity Building (Nic – FFI) | ||
+ | * Socio-Economic Analysis of Marine Litter (Andrew – IEEP) | ||
+ | * Blue New Deal – good jobs for UK coastal communities (Aniol – NEF) | ||
+ | * Getting EU EMFF (fisheries funds) to fund the right things (Aniol – NEF) | ||
+ | * River Academy and Thames Guardian Project (Amy – TEP) | ||
+ | * Coastal Partnership Network (Amy – TEP) | ||
+ | * MarineSafe | ||
+ | * # | ||
+ | * Research on frames | ||
+ | * SUPB | ||
+ | * Game On | ||
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+ | ( ( ( Nik to Add pdf ) ) ) | ||
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+ | Emerging topics | ||
+ | * MPAs | ||
+ | * Fisheries | ||
+ | * Consumption / Supply chain | ||
+ | * Education & public engagement (citizens science) | ||
+ | * Marine litter | ||
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+ | Emerging interventions | ||
+ | * Funding mechanisms | ||
+ | * Capacity-building | ||
+ | * Building alliances | ||
+ | * Narrative / Communication | ||
+ | * New management measures | ||
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+ | Discussion: | ||
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+ | The Marine CoLAB could be a place where we can design (or get help with a design) tests (experiments) that provide useful results (answers to questions) about values connecting people and oceans. A strategic device or approach is needed to decide what experiments/ | ||
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+ | Existing projects (by participating organisations) can be clarified and deepened by investigating them in the CoLAB: asking questions, providing data, making small changes in order to answer existing (values) questions. Also, the CoLAB could help ' | ||
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+ | Questions to individual organisations: | ||
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+ | Action research cycle could be used to look at what can be learnt from each project, which values is it addressing, how is it working, how can its results be brought into the lab (e.g. providing advice and aggregating results from many projects). The CoLAB can be used to keep track of current progress, project delivery, emergent learning. How would this be done? What is the forum and format for discussion before, during and after the projects? | ||
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+ | === Incubator: SUPB === | ||
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+ | A sea of change – seeing through the plastics problem. The project started with meetings in December and January. This was a session that summarised and provided an update about what has happened so far. It was aimed at the Marine CoLAB members who aren’t directly involved in the project (yet), and proposed different ways in which they could become involved or simply kept up to date. It is considerd important for the project to be embedded in Marine CoLAB, to enable reciprocal learning between the project and the lab. | ||
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+ | ==Overarching aim: creating a “team” to deliver this project== | ||
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+ | Roles and responsibilities have been identified. | ||
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+ | Sub objectives: | ||
+ | * Created a ToC to inform the design of project (based on Oak Application) | ||
+ | * Examined roles and responsibilities, | ||
+ | * Fed-in to activities around the mayoral campaigns | ||
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+ | ==We examined “theories of change”== | ||
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+ | * What is a theory of change? | ||
+ | * Why are we taking a systemic approach and how does this differ from a more linear model of change? | ||
+ | * We looked at the principles of acting systemically | ||
+ | * We examined the constituent elements of a generic strategy for change (problem, aims, goals, interventions, | ||
+ | * We introduced the MLP (systems framing) as a way of understanding the SUPB project | ||
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+ | ==Why we need to take a systemic approach== | ||
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+ | * Single, solely | ||
+ | * Short term, incremental, | ||
+ | * Trying to solve it alone -> Partnership and collaboration | ||
+ | * Philanthropy, | ||
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+ | ==Principles of a systemic theory of change== | ||
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+ | * Presents the whole picture of the projects work so that it creates a coherent narrative | ||
+ | * Creates a pattern of how different impacts and outcomes are nested together | ||
+ | * Seeks to present the connections between the interventions so that additionality is achieved to scale up our collective impacts | ||
+ | * Names it’s assumptions and is open to change through learning | ||
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+ | ==The parts of the puzzle== | ||
+ | * The problem and its systemic nature (conditions outside of the project) | ||
+ | * The goals and impact we want to see in the world | ||
+ | * The interventions you undertake (and how they interrelate to create system change) | ||
+ | * The assumptions – the rationale for why you are creating change through these interventions | ||
+ | * (The risks and consequences of these interventions) | ||
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+ | Exisiting system -> new system | ||
+ | * Water delivered through SUPB -> Eliminated SUPB and alternative ways delivered | ||
+ | * Oceans are valued for economic purposes -> Oceans are valued in a way that protects and enhances | ||
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+ | (MLP: landscape / regime / niche mapping) | ||
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+ | ==Next | ||
+ | * Examine the activities across the different objectives, especially objective one: | ||
+ | * Deepen our diagnosis to understand the existing system – “mapping the system” | ||
+ | * Design our approach to create change and create a coordinated project plan | ||
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+ | == Mayoral campaign == | ||
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+ | Has to be quick, as the elections are in May. It focuses on the landscape around the two key candidates, and works on finding influencers (now it is clear how to go after them and who they will listen to). It is important not to prejudge the long term aims of the project. | ||
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+ | Instead of big media pushes, the campaign will focus on letting social media do its work. Lots of face-to-face contact, focusing on the message "why wouldn’t you", targeting personal commitment (and if elected, a commitment to eradicating SUPB in their buildings, as well lowering the amount of SUPB in London. There will be 1-2 events (e.g. with Selfridges) to create noise, link to clean air (Tory) and social issues (Labor). | ||
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+ | ==Discussion== | ||
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+ | SUPB roles (for those not directly involved in the project) | ||
+ | **Everyone agrees to be part of the steering committee, but more like an advisory committee** | ||
+ | * How do you want to be updated? Do you follow the traffic on the email? Do we need to flag communications: | ||
+ | * Answer: updates as appropriate, | ||
+ | * How do you want to be involved? How to create sufficient connection with the CoLAB? | ||
+ | * Answer: as members of the advisory committee, as ambassadors and experts. | ||
+ | * Advisory committee: Can work akin to a trustee board - questioning and oversight. Use the CoLAB as a lab to test assumptions, | ||
+ | * Experts: If a specific expertise is needed for something, reach out directly to specific people. They might need more advance warning depending on the amount of work involved. DO NOT wait for people to become involved, ask specific questions. | ||
+ | * Ambassadors: | ||
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+ | In the first year the project will focus on design, planning and research phase, so there is still flexibility in the plan and budget (core spend + flexible spend), for those who want to get involved at a later stage. | ||
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+ | What is the role of SUPB/other projects in feeding wider Marine CoLAB ToC | ||
+ | * How will it interact with and feed the aims of the LAB? | ||
+ | * How will the SUPB action research cycle interact with that of the LAB? | ||
+ | * What does this experiment in SUPB tell us about how we create Values based change strategies? | ||
+ | * Various opportunities are arising, how to take them on or evaluate them? | ||
+ | * Asset development -> carry through in project and contribute to lab development | ||
+ | * Test how the ' | ||
+ | * Explore further connection with circular economy | ||
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+ | ==== 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)", | ||
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+ | The key questions to answer include: | ||
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+ | * How to keep Marine CoLAB going? | ||
+ | * How will it function? | ||
+ | * How to govern it? | ||
+ | * How to create more impact? | ||
+ | * What have we learnt about setting up a LAB over the last year? | ||
+ | * What do we not know? In relation to each part of the AR Cycle, esp. LAB purpose? What questions do we still want to ask? | ||
+ | * What questions do we have around making the LAB function? (governance, | ||
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+ | === 11 Feb: Workplan 2016 === | ||
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+ | The workshop on the 11th of February 2016 will focus on creating a workplan for 2016. It will begin by looking at where the group wants to be at the end of the year and working backwards. The aim for the meeting is to produce clear outcomes, activities (projects, experiments, | ||
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+ | === 3 Mar: Operating models === | ||
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+ | The workshop on the 3rd of March will build on the plan for 2016 and look at a longer term operating and business model, including governance/ | ||
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+ | == To Do == | ||
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+ | (before the next workshop) | ||
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+ | * Giles and Aniol: group the existing [[action_research_questions|questions]], | ||
+ | * All: send a list of outcomes (5?), proposed activities for 2016, ideas for operations and reflection. | ||
+ | * Vali: assist with creating and finalising the agenda before the 11th of February. | ||
+ | * Louisa: find out if the consultant will be involved in this and/or the March workshops, and what the scope of their involvement will be in creating the business plan for Marine CoLAB. | ||
+ | * Heather, Sue, Nic: write a paragraph on how Marine CoLAB has benefited their work and life so far. | ||
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