Backcasting from a solar punk future using generative AI
What you'll learn
- Understand the concept of backcasting and its benefits as a planning and decision-making tool that can leverage global wisdom & generative AI.
- Use generative AI as a co-creative force in the backcasting process and utilize AI to identify missing institutions, fields of knowledge of relevance
- Understand the role of humans as living bridges to a solar punk future and identify the skills and knowledge needed to be an effective steward and macro-leader
- Utilize AI to generate credible fiction that reflects both hopeful and realistic aspirations for a solar punk future
- Conduct a gap analysis and design scenarios for how to achieve a solar punk future using tactical and strategic backcasting methods.
- Identify key systems that need to be changed in order to achieve a solar punk future and use the concept of Ikigai to identify one's perfect role in the world.
- Understand the role of AI in co-creation and how it can be used to generate credible fiction.
- Develop a vision for a solar punk future that is both hopeful and realistic, utilizing AI to generate credible fiction and overcome limitations on dreaming.
- Understand the importance in the backcasting process of drawing inspiration from global wisdom to inform your vision for the future.
- Learn how to use backcasting as a tool for creating a hopeful and realistic vision for the future and how to utilize it in your social innovations,work & life,
Requirements
- ChatGPT
- NovelAI
- PerplexityAI
- Hopes for the future
- A stewardship of either a personal scale or a social innovation scale/collective scale systems change.
- There are no specific requirements or prerequisites for taking this course. However, it would be helpful for learners to have some basic understanding of planning and decision-making processes, as well as an openness to exploring the potential of AI and its role in co-creation. Additionally, having some familiarity with the concept of Ikigai and systems change may also be beneficial. No specific tools or equipment are required for this course.
Description
Welcome to our virtual course on Backcasting from a Solar Punk Future using Generative AI: Chat GPT, Global Wisdom, NovelAI, and Systems Change!
Are you ready to co-create a hopeful and realistic vision for the world with the help of advanced artificial intelligence and global wisdom? Then this course is for you!
Through this course, you will learn how to use backcasting as a powerful tool for planning and decision-making, leveraging the power of generative AI and chat GPT to explore what is possible and what is needed to achieve a solar punk future. You will also learn how to utilize the concept of ikigai to identify your perfect role in the world and how to use systems change to transform the systems and structures that shape our world.
Using these powerful tools and techniques, you will work backwards from a solar punk future to identify the steps needed to get there and how you can contribute to the realization of this aspirational and feasible vision.
Join us on this journey to co-create a better future for ourselves and the world!
Here are some reasons why someone might love this course:
They want to learn how to use backcasting as a powerful tool for planning and decision-making.
They are interested in using generative AI and chat GPT to explore what is possible and what is needed to achieve a solar punk future.
They want to learn how to utilize the concept of ikigai to identify their perfect role in the world and contribute to the realization of a solar punk future.
They are interested in learning how to use systems change to transform the systems and structures that shape our world.
They want to co-create a hopeful and realistic vision for the world with the help of advanced artificial intelligence and global wisdom.
Backcasting can be applied at various levels - from the individual to the global level - to create a hopeful and realistic vision for the future.
At the individual level, backcasting can be used to identify one's perfect role in the world and how they can contribute to the realization of a solar punk future. It can help individuals to understand their strengths, passions, and values and how they can align them with the needs of the world.
At the family level, backcasting can be used to co-create a vision for the future that reflects the hopes and needs of all members of the family. It can help families to identify their unique strengths and how they can work together to contribute to the world in meaningful ways.
For systems change oriented products and services, backcasting can be used to identify the steps needed to create a more just and sustainable world. It can help organizations to understand the systems and structures that shape our world and how they can use their resources and expertise to transform them for the better.
At the global level, backcasting can be used to create a vision for a world that thrives for all. It can help us to understand the interconnections between different systems and how we can work together to create a better future for everyone.
This course leverages the work of Donella Meadows on vision in the policy process to help learners understand the importance of having a clear, feasible, and shared vision for a sustainable future. Meadows argues that envisioning a better world is a skill that can be developed, and this course will provide learners with the tools and techniques to develop this skill. Through the use of generative AI and backcasting methods, learners will learn how to build a responsible vision of a solar punk future that meets the needs of all people and preserves the natural systems of the world. By focusing on the values and motivations that drive the policy process, learners will be able to create a shared vision that can be used to guide their systems change efforts and contribute to the creation of a more just and sustainable world.
Who this course is for:
- This course is intended for individuals who are interested in exploring the potential of backcasting as a tool for creating a hopeful and realistic vision for the future. It is suitable for individuals who are motivated by the concept of a solar punk future and are interested in identifying the steps needed to achieve it. It is suitable for those who are open to considering the role of AI in co-creative problem-solving and are interested in using tactical and strategic backcasting methods to plan for the future.
- It is suitable for those who are seeking to identify their perfect role in the world and understand the importance of systems change in achieving a solar punk future. It is not suitable for those who are resistant to considering the potential of AI or who are not open to exploring innovative approaches to planning and decision-making. It is not intended for those who are not interested in the concept of a solar punk future or who are not motivated by the idea of creating a hopeful and realistic vision for the future.
Instructors
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Bobby Fishkin co-leads CrowdDoing which is the publisher of this course. CrowdDoing is a joint initiative of Reframe It Inc. and Match4Action Foundation.
A decade ago Bobby Fishkin won the McKinsey Harvard Business Review award for collective intelligence- the Management 2.0 Challenge.
20 years ago Bobby Fishkin co-founded Books For Teachers which has created thousands of micro libraries for teachers.
15 years ago Bobby Fishkin co-founded ACCESS Arts Creating Community Energy and Social Solutions Baltimore which at the time got mentors and at-risk youth ticketless to live theatre, music and museums.
Bobby co-founded Reframe It after receiving his B.A., magna cum laude, in Philosophy from Yale University. Reframe It has become a strategic partner of M4A Foundation with whom it has developed the CrowdDoing initiative.
Five years ago, Bobby Fishkin co-founded CrowdDoing us where he co-leads
virtual volunteers around the world collaborate to tackle complex problems.
One CrowdDoing initiative is Wildfire Prevention Derivatives. Recently, the world has seemed to catch fire. Devastating fires across the globe cost billions of dollars, causing expensive corollary environmental issues including flooding, landslides, and other forms of environmental damage. There is a tremendous demand for wildfire prevention; the challenge is to develop schema which can be deployed cost-effectively across all stakeholders. The earth is burning; e.g., USA/California, Brazil, Australia. Regional impacts of wildfires are widespread and affecting health, housing, agriculture, biodiversity, and economies. CrowdDoing is developing a new approach to reduce wildfire risk and prevent damage, while simultaneously regenerating nature and improving quality of life. This approach combines new analytic methods, data, financial tools, and collaboration. Our “prevention derivatives” thesis is that anchor stakeholders at risk could demonstrably identify their self-interest in preventing the air pollution and other damage caused by wildfires. Stakeholders share liabilities. Catastrophes cause harm to insurers, reinsurers, Insurance-linked-security holders, corporations, individuals, and whole regions. If we can prevent these risks cost effectively through social innovation, that is a collective opportunity. For example, preventing wildfires can reduce risk for multiple types of stakeholders if combinations of social innovations are financed and adopted. Meanwhile, the bias against valuing positive risk prevents social innovations from getting adopted even if there would be remarkable benefits to all stakeholders through their adoption.
CrowdDoing is a joint initiative of Match4Action Foundation and Reframe It. CrowdDoing is focused on addressing the social, economic, and environmental challenges our world faces by collaborating with professionals and volunteers from many different industries. We offer a platform for individuals to connect and collaborate toward creating systemic change. What makes us different? CrowdDoing aims to support social innovations with transformative impact potential through global multi-disciplinary volunteering, micro-leadership and service learning. We work through operating leverage for systems change to achieve collective agency. We orient to ikigai and self-determination theory in order to help each person have the perfect role.
Bobby co-lead a consultation of the technology community via Reframe It in collaboration with TechCrunch, the Knight Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Bobby has presented results from his work on deliberative democracy internationally, including at the Global Citizen Foundation in Geneva, at the European Association of Wind Energy Producers, the Institute For The Future, at Tedx Hayward and the 4th Annual Summit on Public Consultation and Engagement in Toronto. Bobby has presented on impact investment work he has done at SOCAP. Bobby through Reframe It co-led the Social Impact Bond feasibility Study for Marin County and the Marin Community Foundation along with Total Impact Advisors and Heritas.
Bobby co-authored a report for the Center For Global Development about citizen consultation on global issues. Bobby was part of the team which advised and provided training for the Center For Global Development’s deliberative democracy initiative in Tanzania in 2015. Bobby co-authored a report on social enterprise and impact volunteerism’s potential for the Provida Foundation. Bobby served on the board of directors of the Bay Area Social Enterprise Alliance. Earlier in his career, Bobby was a playwright, who co-directed and co-produced his historical play at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London which was also presented in workshops at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) and at the Theatre Museum, and had a different play of his produced in Texas and New York City. served as a Special Advisor to Tomorrow’s Europe, a Deliberative Democracy project of the European Commission and as a fellow of the Richard Florida Creativity Group.
- 4.3 Instructor Rating
- 31 Reviews
- 10,499 Students
- 1 Course
Day Sanchez is a School Psychologist, Education Specialist, and Emotional Intelligence facilitator dedicated to supporting the optimal cognitive, creative, spiritual, and social-emotional development of gifted, twice-exceptional (2e), and neurodiverse children. She provides psycho-education on eco-emotions, and facilitates workshops for parents, schools, and organizations on how to support children and youth in times of ecological emergency. Day is on a mission to help children and families identify their unique roles within a solarpunk future.