Goal: to help students understand the challenges communities face in achieving a safe and just space and to think creatively about how communities can be empowered to use the assets they have to create and maintain that space.
Description: this project is the last in a series of three projects given in our Seeking Sustainability 1000 level undergraduate course. The course is a project-based with the students completing 3 projects throughout the semester. We use the doughnut model to frame the course and organize the projects. In the first project, teams of about 4 students each explore a planetary boundary, create a webpage, and do a presentation to class. For the second project they do the same, each focused on one of the social foundations. This third project has teams of students focused on a specific community exploring how the community’s assets and vulnerabilities support or hinder achieving a safe and just space for humanity.
This project ideally takes place over three class sessions and includes a set of pre and post assignments (included with this tool) where students do research and develop a short presentation and supporting webpages. We provide worktime during class for students to work together to integrate their research and develop their presentation. Moving the work outside of class and paring down the assignments could allow for the project to take place in one or two sessions.
Useful resources:
https://www.jigsaw.org/ (website explaining how to run a jigsaw activity)
https://doughnuteconomics.org/Creating-City-Portraits-Methodology.pdf Creating City Portraits report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ziw-wK03TSw BBC global video on doughnut economics
Kyungmin Lee
Suji-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
I'm here to learn from global examples of Doughnut Economics and explore ways to apply these ideas in Yongin, Korea