Ecosocial Innovation lab
From emergency responses to systemic transformations
ECOSOCIAL INNOVATION LAB
Aloha! You are on the home page of the IKE Green Initiative, an epistemic community committed to generating transdisciplinary knowledge vital for Hawaiʻi’s socioecological transformation. Put simply, socioecological transformation is about figuring out ends, ways, and means of mitigating multiple crises that endanger the very survival of humanity and seeking a path to harmonious realignment with the Earth’s ecosphere.The global ecological crisis and the climate breakdown it is driving are the epitome of socioecological complexity and intractability. Tackling these existential risks and accompanying wicked problems with the expectation of optimal outcomes requires collective intelligence and a capacity for intersectoral collaboration predicated on modes of investigation, governance, decision-making, knowledge building, and training that are decidedly different from Hawaiʻi’s current science-policy and science-society practices.The IKE Green Initiative aspires to serve as a transdisciplinary R&D vehicle equipped with its own cognitive strategy, investigative methodology, and delivery mechanisms designed to diagnose knowledge deficiencies, uncover critical policy blind spots, identify suboptimal discursive practices, and facilitate production and rapid intermediation of actionable knowledge vital for Hawaiʻi’s sustainability transition.IKE, in the name of our knowledge venture, stands for innovative knowledge environment while also echoing the semantics of the Hawaiian word for knowledge, ‘ike, in recognition of the integrative, holistic, dynamic, and intergenerational nature of indigenous knowledge.
Next session: 6/15 @14:00—16:30
The Age of Endarkenment: Disciplinary separatism, manufactured complexity, and wisdom famine
To request a Zoom meeting link or obtain the list of recommended reading materials, please contact us at [email protected]
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Open-Door Editorial Confabs
Join us at 10 a.m. every second and fourth Saturday of the month for virtual knowledge-sharing gatherings (ODEMs) to crowdsource content for Climate Emergency and Environmental Justice Digest, Island Oikonomia, Ag-Hoc Insights and other transdisciplinary bulletins. We hope that with your help, these publications can evolve into a necessary and reliable digital asset of our civic community’s news and knowledge commons.In addition to being a space to contribute and discuss newsworthy items, these meetings will include monthly microlabs that explore the defining issues of our times, such as the climate, energy, economy, and equity crises, in their glocal (local/global) context. These microlabs will critically examine perspectives on the causes of and solutions for these issues that are proliferated by mainstream media, establishment think tanks, celebrity scientists, and other story-control operators. They will also aim to generate meaningful insights and support activity planning and implementation-design efforts to meet genuine community needs.If you are unable to make it to the next ODEMs (5/27 or 6/5), you can email us your thoughts and/or news contributions at [email protected].
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For inquiries and to discuss collaboration ideas please contact Curt Castro or Justin MeninaT +1.808.657.3555 | F +1.808.825.5920 | [email protected]