Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
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Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
- MSPs can contribute to building trust among diverse stakeholders, and enable relationships that can outlast the process itself.
- They can provide a platform for much needed capacity building among practitioners at different levels.
Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
There are many well documented approaches used to identify and resolve stakeholder relations, including Needs-Fears Mapping, Conflict Analysis Tools, and Multi-Stakeholder Processes, (MSP) to name a few.
Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
An imbalance in power relations among stakeholders affected by wicked problems is a barrier to problem resolution. Power dynamics permeate societal systems; its structures, cultural norms, material artifacts and technologies etc;
Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
systemic oppression manifests on four systems levels: The Individual, The Interpersonal, The Institutional and The Structural
Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
Transition Design seeks to address these power imbalances by building capacity and empowerment for some groups, while addressing issues of privilege, entitlement, and even ignorance with others. In many cases, certain stakeholder groups (such as those who are disenfranchised for some reason or those who are non-human). These groups will require... See more
Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
- MSPs provide the opportunity for greater understanding of different stakeholders’ capacities, roles and limitations, thus contributing to better coordination of interventions.
- MSPs can help organizations pool and share resources, including skills, funding, staff time, and logistical or administrative resources.
Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
Fairness/Cheating; Care/Harm; Authority/Subversion; Loyalty/Betrayal; Sanctity/Degradation; Liberty/Oppression. We become polarized from each other when our moral foundations are too different from one another.
Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
Johnathan Haidt’s Moral Foundations Theory
Transition Design argues that living in and through transitional times calls for self-reflection and ‘new ways of being’ in the world in order to act as a catalyst for societal transition. This will call for self-reflection and learning which lead to new mindsets and postures.
Social Relations – Transition Design Seminar CMU
Therefore understanding power dynamics and mapping the ways in which they manifest in a system (wicked problem) and among stakeholder groups is crucial to problem resolution.