Politics and Ecocivilisation - a round table on the new rules of cooperation and participation that might get us there
In our engagement and “networking the networks” this week, A/UK found itself in a very fruitful discussion within the Ecocivilisation community (see their rich archive of Ecocivilisation Talks). The video embedded above includes A/UK’s Indra Adnan and our great inspiration Uffe Elbaek, founder of Alternativet (full lists of participants at the bottom of this page:
The discussion covered this ground:
❋ Can we imagine fresh, new political structures? New means for cooperation, participation, rules?
❋ Are there already any fresh and good practices leading the way for changing the political landscape?
❋ Are we ready to even imagine the world without political parties, without the constant fight for power, but instead choosing leaders by their capacity to see, understand, engage, deliver, mobilise?
❋ Can we say goodbye to all “…isms” and dare to reinvent new structures for decision making and active participation of people for the benefit of people, communities, countries, regions?
❋ Do we have enough capacity, have we evolved enough to deliver new governance, responsible management, transparent distribution of created value?
The discussants were:
Violeta Bulc: Curator of Ecocivilisation, a Slovenian politician who served as the European Commissioner for Transport from 2014 to 2019
𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗳𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗻𝗲𝗿: Managing Director of the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (BCSSS) in Vienna, hosting the European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research (emcsr/avantgarde) and the Circular Economy Forum Austria. His current work is focused on the development of a General Transdisciplinary Systems, Systems Design, Systemic Innovation and Impact Assessment for the Next Economy, in particular the Circular Economy.
𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘇𝗹𝗼: President of the Board of Directors of the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (BCSSS). Director of Research at the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research (LINPR). Author of over one hundred journal, book, and encyclopedia publications, and a 6th Degree Black Belt in traditional Taekwon-do.
𝗨𝗳𝗳𝗲 𝗘𝗹𝗯æ𝗸: He was a founder and leader of the cultural youth-network The Frontrunners in the 80’s and founder and former principal of The KaosPilots international School. For the last ten years as MP in the Danish Parliament. His focus has been how to save the world from both ecological disaster, economic inequality and the growing fascism. An activist with a big heart
𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗮 𝗔𝗱𝗻𝗮𝗻: Co-initiator of The Alternative UK political platform which publishes The Daily Alternative, convenes system actors for the emerging socio-political system and builds cosmo-local citizen action networks (CANs). Indra is a psychotherapist, journalist and author.
𝗘𝗺𝗮 𝗢𝗱𝗿𝗮 𝗥𝗮šč𝗮𝗻: Student and a columnist for the European Student Think Tank. During the German Presidency to the Council of the EU, she was chosen to be one of the 27 Young Europe Ambassadors. She was the first female President of Globallis – Slovenian Student Society for International Relations.
𝗘𝗹𝗸𝗲 𝗘𝘀𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: She is a social innovation consultant (www.politicsreinvented.eu), a professional coach and group facilitator, combining twenty-three years as an adviser and consultant in international organisations (UN, Geneva and European Parliament, Brussels) with twenty years of coaching experience.