Introduction days for Master’s students
Students at various sustainability programmes at Campus Gotland are invited to the introduction days Searching for Sustainability to reflect on the role of education and learning in relation to sustainable development. This is a space for interdisciplinary team work and critical conversation between students and teachers from different backgrounds.
Searching for Sustainability 2023
Students in search for sustainability during collaborative interdisciplinary days, News 17 November 2022
The film below is filmed during the first event that took place in 2018.
ABOUT WICKED SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES
Most of us wants to live a good life. At the same time, the common resources on the planet must be equally shared and managed in a sustainable way. The challenges that arise are many times complex and difficult in areas such as climate, equity and biodiversity.
Researchers refer to this kind of issues as "wicked problems" characterized by their lack of clear and obvious solutions that are true-or false, but good-or-bad. Wicked problems are interrelated, interdependent and can be explained in many ways.
- new approaches
- different perspectives
- creative ideas
- system and future thinking