We followed and took part in intriguing discussions about systemic views to sustainability research, yet for once we were not the talking heads but listening and learning from experts around the world. We are left with an overarching feeling of determination but also other highpoints.
Thomas: “This seems like a thriving community that attracts participants across institutional and cultural boundaries, many of them with a strong activist mindset. I was inspired by the various solution-driven and community-led initiatives related to, for example, urban development and local democracy. At the same time, digitalization remained a sideline rather focus of attention — this implies that the agenda of DigiSus has plenty of novelty value and underexplored corners!”
Kirsikka: “I found the roundtable on Society-wide Sustainability Change in and through the Workplace especially insightful. The discussion about complex tradeoffs related to different sustainability dimensions resonated and I was left pondering how we could better support communal goal-setting and measurement. Overall, I felt the interest in digitalization was rightly where it should be, as a part of solutions only when it provides real value in comparison to other alternatives.”
Matias: “I was thrilled about Linda Knight’s and Kristina Vitek’s workshop ‘Recording on the frontlines: mapping grand-scale climate change in the everyday’. The workshop offered insights on how our ways of observing and collecting data are often rigid. Knight had produced a method combining observation and drawing to create an alternative mode of observing and data collection. I felt the workshop was mindboggling and I would love to test the method on DigiSus-themes.”
Thank you colleagues and friends at University of Helsinki and Aalto University for hosting, we had a lovely time!
Read more about Sustainability Research + Innovation Congress 2024 and Sustainability Science Days
For us who crave more knowledge and discussions, the next two weeks also have plenty to offer:
👩💻 LIMITS – Computing within Limits, June 18-19, online (attendance is free)
👩💻 ICT4S – ICT for Sustainability, June 24-28, online/Stockholm
Although LIMITS itself is an online event, you’re welcome to join our Community Hub physically at Tampere University Hervanta campus to follow the program and exchange thoughts and ideas. Check out the details on the LIMITS website.