PDC+++ Module 4 Class 8 Social Capital

Energy & EcoTechnologyModule 4 of the PDC+++PDC

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+We dedicate this Module to the Mother &

Father of Integral Permaculture: Dana Meadows & Howard Odum, two original

pioneers who helped humanity make great strides in understanding systemic

thinking, in all four quadrants.

In this class we explore social capital as the umbrella term we use to value a complex set of inner quadrant qualities

such as creativity, innovation, social skills, connectivity, emotional intelligence, knowledge, wisdom, cultural awareness, etc.,

all of which have a critical part to play in re-designing any technology & therefore society as a whole.

"Sustainable Development" has been criticized as a term for being inherently contradictory, but when all quadrants are taken into account,

we can see that a major growth in the interior quadrants (personal development & culture) will probably be key in achieving any significant reduction in physical

consumption or material growth, so 'sustainable development' is far from contradictory as a term.

So how do we design for increasing and improving social capital?

Class M4.8Social Capital

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M4.8 * How can we design to Increase and Improve Social

Capital?

Definitions

Integrated in Whole Design

Creativity

Innovation


Capital?

Definitions


Creativity

Innovation


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Social Capital

patterns & intensity of networks of people

+ value which emerges from these networkscitizienship, community feeling,

confidence, values, rules, shared institutions,

commitment and community organization,

volunteering and civic engagement, social networks

Human Capital

abilities, knowledge, experience, production

skills…

Natural Capital

biosphere resources – ecosystems’ service

capacity

Social Capital

CAPACITYPOWERABILITY

Collective Intelligence

to improve society


Social cohesion andability of a community

or a society to collaborate and

cooperate

(through network-like systems, shared

confidence, rules and values)

to achieve mutual benefits

Social Capital

Value of social networks that people

can use to solve common problems.

Social capital benefits come from confidence, reciprocity,

information and cooperation linked to

social networks

Social Capital


People’s attitude, spirit & desire to engage in

collective civic activities.

Social Capital


With time, social capital builds what can be

called social infrastructure.

Capacities and infrastructure that promote social progress


Social Capital

Social capital is a resource ...

that represents a debt of a society towards the members

sourced by the contributions they made for the development of economic activities ...

contemplated in the social aim.

In informal speech, the term “capital” means an amount of

money, riches, inherited wealth, or amount that is invested or contributed

In Spanish, Social Capital = Shareholders’ Equity

Remember Stocksfrom M2.5 – Resources class

Renewable StocksNon-Renewable Stockseg. chemicals, minerals(oil, coal, copper, etc.).

eg. biological(forests, fish, water, etc.).

Use 4 and 5 only to create

infrastructure

4) REDUCED by use

5) POLLUTE if used

1) INCREASE by modest use

2) UNAFFECTED by use

3) DISAPPEAR / DEGRADE if not used

Stock – a place where energy is stored:e.g. resources like forest biomass, soil, organic matter,

carbon … and also human and social capital (both types)

fulfillsREAL

human needs

makes a very good

use ofRESOURCES

takes into account global &

long-term COSTS

GOOD DESIGN

- biological

- emotional

- spiritual

- conservation

- environment

- economy

- materials

- technology

- energy

Definitions


Creativity

Innovation


Capital?


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Design Motivation• We visited this topic in MANY

ways throughout all this course• Starting in Module 1, People

Care• and from the beginning of ALL

designs: Design Motivation …

• Social Need

Human Needs9 categories identified by Manfred Max-Neef

(Human Scale Development)The 7 Fs

of People's Needs

FoodFuelFibre

FodderFertilizerFarmacy& Fun

ParticipationCreativityLeisureFreedomAffectionProtectionSubsistenceUnderstandingIdentity

fulfillsREAL

human needs

GOOD DESIGN

- biological

- spiritual- emotional

Ignoring REAL human needsproduces DAMAGE

that afterwards need lots of ENERGY to be repaired

Accommodating FALSE needsis a TOTAL waste of energy

food, shelter, warmth, contact,

defecating,discharging,

playing,working,resting, silence,

CONTINUITY

belonging, contacting,

(COMMUNITY), learning, exploring, inventing,

discharging, resting, working,

CREATING, cultural feeling

harmony, knowledge, connection,

purpose, EMPOWERMENT,

creation,beauty,nature, freedom

we also saw that …

“HARVEST” of a system is

theorically unlimited- IMAGINATION -

physical

biological

spatial

technical

conservation

social

cultural

Legal /administrative

temporal Considers ‘upstream costs’ (input enegy) &

‘downstream costs’ (e.g. health)

CiclesNiches in

time“catching the flow”

A sustainable system produces all the energy and resources thatit needs for its maintenance and growth. What remains is the “harvest”

Input energy < Maintenance energy + HARVEST

ENERGYACCOUNTING(Sustainability)

+ Brewery Waste= 5 new businesses

Montfort Boys Town, Fiji

own food & resources with

pisciculture

1996 – ZERI & Prof. George Chan

FISH

PIGS

MUSHROOMS

1997

mushroomenzymes

BIO-DIGESTOR

YIELD Brewery waste

mushrooms substrate >

< with rice

straw & sawdust

FISHpig food

waste

BuildingFertile Connections

AppropiateTechnology

UsingLocalResources

Mini-Max

ALGAE

PIGS

MUSHROOMS

1997

YIELD

mushroomenzymes

pig food

wasteBIO-DIGESTOR

GAS

shallow pools

PESCADOFISH

Brewery waste


< with rice

straw & sawdust

FISHFISH + border polyculture + hydrophonics

ALGAE

PIGS

MUSHROOMS

1997

mushroomenzymes

BIO-DIGESTOR

GAS

shallow pools

YIELD

appropiate technology




Good DesignSOCIAL CAPITAL

Brewery waste


< with rice

straw & sawdust

pig food

waste

technical

biologicalsocial

cultural

Legal /admini-strativa

physical

spatialconservation

resources pollutionconsumption

Energy Cycling

Sustainability on a small scale, as on a big scale, means

that a system creates or stores more energy during its lifetime

than it needs for it to be created and maintained

resources

pollution

prosuming

otherresources

appropiatetechnology

Also works with Invisible Resources

social

cultural

tecniques

Limiting Population & Consumption

resources

polución

prosuming

otherresources


otherresources


otherresources

Harvesting only sunlightSustainability on a small scale ....as on a big scale ... meansthat a system creates or stores more energy during its lifetimethan it needs for it to be created and maintained

“catching the flow”

Definitions


Creativity

Innovation


Capital?


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THE DRIVING FORCE of rEVOLUTION

CREATIVITY

it’s… seeing something NEW when you look at something OLD

CIVILIZATIONis at the Heart of

and is

“Creativity is inventing experimenting, growing,

taking risks, breaking rules, making errors, & having fun"

- Mary Lou Cook -

Creativity is Intelligence having

Fun

Albert Einstein

“If I had to summarize what distinguishes creative people I’d use word complexity. Instead of a single individual they’re a multitude. Like the colour white includes all the colours, creative people usually contain the whole range of human possibilities inside themselves.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creativity allows for paradox,

light & shadow,inconsistency,

even chaos and creative people

experience all extremes with the same intensity.”

Convergent thought (rational, judgemental) & Divergent thought (intuitive, visionary) at the same time

cold air heavierinsulation

0.1 kWh / day

vertical door

90 seconds / hour (silent)

1 kWh / day is wasted

consume less power/volume, even though they maintain much colder

temperatures

thermostat outside(cuts off power whenrequired temperature is reached)

to measure used energy

social

cultural

technical

Imagination

Super-Summary:


= getting rid of ego issues

Imagination ..... is changing the viewpoint

When everybody thinks the same,

it’s because nobody is thinking

Definitions


Creativity

Innovation


Capital?


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CREATIVITY INNOVATION

What’s the difference between…&

Skill to generate new ideas

Capacity to apply creativity to

generate value

changes Perception changes Reality

CREATIVITY requires thought

INNOVATION requires action

John Kao

This is a whole computer, with its peripherals

How?!

Assembled, it looks like this…

One piece is the screen& the other the keyboard

Just put your fingers in the image and type.

Easy, isn’t it?!...

There are different models.

There’s also amodel for PALMs.

IF a technology can expand enough… then it’s creativity that has turned into innovation.

Definitions


Creativity

Innovation


Capital?


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Social Capital

CAPACITY

POWERABILITY

What increases & What decreases our Capacity,

Power & Ability?

to improve society

sustainable development

•3. El salto social, chapter 7

•The aim of the environmental policy of the salto social is to gradually advance toward sustainable human development,

•understood as the amplification of the capacities of the population,

through the development of social capital, to satisfy the needs of present generations through prudent management of natural resources,

•whilst maintaining options open for the well-being of future generations.

what CREATES Social Capital?

& how do we develop technologies to increase it?

Sustainable Development is that which can ...

Satisfy the needs of present generations without jeopardizing the possibilities of future ones to attend to

their own needs.

Brudtland Report 20 March 1987

We need an Exponential Growth of Intelligence, Wisdom, Creativity, Innovation ... & Social Capital (how all this inter-connects to INNOVATE)

Capital social: las relaciones sociales afectan al desarrollo(Marta Portela Maseda e Isabel Neira Gómez)

The question that is put in order to analyze the level of social confidence is: “Generally speaking, do you believe that the majority of people can be trusted

or does one have to be careful in dealing with people?”

The variable which is considered the most important when it comes to quantifying social capital ... is social confidence. Many studies demonstrate that a high level of social confidence reduces the costs of any type of transaction & facilitates the flow of information.

Societies with a higher level of

confidence have an

additional potential for

achieving economic growth, although

confidence on its own is not

enough.

PEOPLE'S CONFIDENCE

%

http://www.girona.cat/ccivics/docs/capital_social.pdf

Conclusion: social networks should be encouraged, because through them an increase in general confidence can be achieved, which affects the development of the nation.Capital social: las relaciones sociales afectan al desarrollo

(Marta Portela Maseda e Isabel Neira Gómez)

social confidence

The variable which is considered the most important when it comes to quantifying social capital ... is social confidence. Many studies demonstrate that a high level of social confidence reduces the costs of any type of transaction & facilitates the flow of information.

http://www.girona.cat/ccivics/docs/capital_social.pdf

Confidence relates also to

maturityNatural Successions

How to organize actions in a world of distributed networks?

Renouncing control. Movements grow through spontaneous joining, planning what who is going to do when doesn't make any sense.

All relevant & authentically distributed movements of the last decades have displayed two necessary phases:

− Deliberation: localized in forums & blogs, necessarily of a «minority», forming a new consensus, which, translated into slogans, will convert to mobilization. (Social Laboratory of new dialogues)

Successful activism has much of the self-fulfilling prophecy. When a certain level is reached of people who not only wants to but believes they can change things, change becomes inevitable.

No strict hierarchies of values are imposed nor a credo, instead qualities, channels, of a certain way of seeing the world are proposed, of a certain life style which will be the real binding agent of the network. Centralized Network

There is a strong identifying character which is the robustness of the network.

The idea is to develop tools & put them at the disposal of the public

The visibility of the heterogeneous (& the possibility to dissent with those who exert power without being left out of the system but in fact being recognized as a necessary part of it), the rupture of passivity is the culmination of the whole empowerment strategy.

− Mobilization: articulated over the outreach tools (YouTube but also Facebook including, to a lesser degree, Twitter) & of direct communication one on one as with SMS or digital files with posters or stickers that anyone can reproduce & distribute.

Distributed Network

Definitions

Integrated in All Design

• Creativity

• Innovation


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SocialCapital


Capital?

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