Please join Community Outreach & Workforce Development (COWD) on Tuesday, August 24, from 12 to 12:45 p.m. for a virtual Lunch & Learn as we launch our Systems Thinking Social Hackathon Kit for the Humber community.
In 2020, COWD launched its first-ever Access to Higher Education Social Hackathon, an innovative capacity-building event for education, community, and industry partners. The purpose of this event was to build our partners' capacity about access to PSE issues while giving them tools to think about access from a systems-thinking perspective, EDI lens, and the SDGs framework to leverage their sector-specific knowledge to collaborate on systems solutions. This hackathon event developed a series of resources ranging from case studies, facilitation guides, and systems-thinking judging rubrics.
Fast forward to 2021, our Social Hackathon model was re-mixed to support local youth and Humber/GH students to develop systems thinking skills during the United Nations SDGs Launch: Connecting for Sustainable Futures 2021 along with the Office of Sustainability and FLA. Participants received training about the SDGs and systems-thinking and then engaged in a guided solution-finding session to address a range of pandemic-related issues in the larger community.
This session will:
- present a rationale for systems thinking hacking and the inclusion of an EDI lens and the Sustainable Development Goals framework
- an understanding of how systems thinking social hacking/solution finding can be applied in two different case uses -a hackathon model or adapted into a related activity
- how to use the resources shared in the Social Hackathon Kit
- possible applications for classrooms, projects, partner engagement events, consultations, and more!
Attendees will leave with access to a suite of resources that comprise our Systems Thinking Social Hackathon Kit.
Facilitated by: Thomas Puthenmadhom and Nivedita Lane
