Etikett: Social Innovation Foresight

Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the reliance on market-based solutions to social and environmental problems around the world. The growth of impact investing is a vivid example of this trend. Different forms of investment solutions attract more private capital into investments that can help to make the society sustainable at the same time creating economic value.

In Social Innovation Foresight #3 we reflect and talk about impact investing.  We look at the processes that drive the dual attainment of financial success and social impact across industries and sectors. What different forms of impact investing are there? What does the ecosystem look like? How do we measure and achieve impact? What are the main obstacles or key factors to succeed? What possibilities have we not yet harnessed? And what trends do we see around the corner?

Keynote Michele Giddens, Partner and Co-CEO at Bridges Fund Management Ltd. will give a short keynote followed by a reflection by Vikram Gandhi, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a panel discussion with Jenny Carenco, CEO, Founding Partner and Impact Manager at Prosper and Secretary of The Swedish National Advisory Board for Impact Investing and Fredrik Persson, CEO at AB SLL Internfinans.

Time:
23 March, 09:00-10:00 AM, CET.

Place:
The event is digital and will be broadcasted on our webpage for Social Innovation Foresight.

Social Innovation Foresight will be recorded and published on Forum for Social Innovation Sweden’s Youtube channel.

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Rural, remote, and wild territories, are collectively identified as “countryside” or “peripheral” areas. Yet, these areas take up 98 % of the Earth’s surface. When we think of these areas, we often tend to bring up the disadvantages compared to more urbanised places, often referred to as center. The urbanisation is increasing steadily and by 2030 more than 80 % of the world population in the most developed countries will live in cities. The worlds’ cities are estimated to account for around 75 % of the energy consumption and approximately 70 % of the carbon dioxide emissions.

There are pros and cons, strenghts and weaknesses with both urban and rural areas. Large-scale planning by political forces, climate change, migration, human and nonhuman ecosystems, market-driven preservation, artificial and organic coexistence, and other forms of radical experimentation are altering landscapes across the world. And through the pandemic and digitization there has been a turn in the dominant paradigm of urban living and peripheralities.

Researchers usually study either the city or the countryside. At the same time there is a constant flow between cities and countryside. Can we redefine or rethink peripheries and center? What do we need to do to make radical imagination of future living in the countryside and in cities become a reality? Can we find local solutions on work, food supply, social services, culture, circular economies, energy supply and direct democracy? And how can local initiatives be used in other places?

In Social Innovation Foresight #2 we reflect and discuss the topic Redefining peripheries.

Yotam Ben-Hur, architect, designer, and researcher, now working at Harvard University School of Design and Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) will start with a keynote, followed by a talk with Jan Åman, Curator and consultant now working Duved Framtid in Jämtland, in the middle of Sweden, and Caroline Wigren-Kristoferson, Professor in Urban studies, entrepreneurship and innovation at Malmö University.

The event is moderated by Johanna Koljonen, a well-known and popular Finnish-Swedish media analyst, author and experience designer with a background within broadcasting.

Time: 7 December, at 9 to 10 AM CET.

The event is moderated and digital. It will be recorded and published on Forum for Social Innovation Sweden’s Youtube channel.

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In society and as individuals we have lost our imaginative skills. We no longer imagine a utopian society, only dystopic social futures. Is there an imagination crisis? If so, why? And how can we overcome it and find new paths to social imagination? How can we quicken social and public imagination in our organisations and in society? And what can we do as individuals and as a collective?

Welcome to the launch of the Forum for Social Innovation Sweden’s new concept and series, Social Innovation Foresight — it combines live events with short keynote videos. Social Innovation Foresight #1 will take us on a journey into social imagination. Together we will reflect and learn how we can find new paths to social imagination.

Sir Geoff Mulgan, Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL), will start with a keynote followed by a talk with Cassie Robinson, Deputy Director of Funding Strategy at The National Lottery Community Fund, and Roope Mokka, Co-founder of Demos Helsinki, a futurist and urbanist with focus on social transformations.

The event is moderated by Johanna Koljonen, a well-known and popular Finnish-Swedish media analyst, author and experience designer with a background in radio and TV.

The event is moderated and digital. It will be recorded and published on Forum for Social Innovation Sweden’s Youtube channel.

Register now