Although CAN-Do activity is supposed to follow an ‘unconference’ format, for the moment the CAN-Do activities are so new that we have some suggested topics or discussion points that have been placed into ‘sets’ or ‘themes’.
In education it is called ‘backward design’ in future studies, it means starting at some time in the future and then specifying the intermediate probably/possible steps back to the present.
Using the metaphor of moving across the bottom (the benthos) of our ocean, as being similar to our journey from the present to the future.
Standing for ‘creative action networks’, we admit we’re reaching a bit, but we wanted to focus on the idea that this activity eventually ends up on ‘doing something’ not just talking.
A different way of thinking of economics in which the ‘waste’ of one business or entity, becomes the raw material for another business or entity.
Implicit (not stated obviously) or explicitly (clearly stated) shared values of a group of people. Culture is often confused with ‘tradition’ but actually culture is a very dynamic term. It normally has to be defined in both time and location.
A group of self selected individuals from the CAN-Do activity workshop who continue past the workshop to create or imagine conditions that will move Fiji towards a possible future in a limited domain by the year 2030.
Using the metaphor of moving through a forest as being similar to our journey from the present to the future.
An activity in which potential futures are considered by a group and a suite of possible activities are considered to meet these futures. The futures might be ‘desirable’ or ‘undesirable’.
Futures that we either move actively towards (‘preferred’ futures); or futures we actively avoid (‘dispreferred futures’)
Either physical structures or social structures that encourage us to utilise our imagination to make creative and innovative solutions for problems we encounter.
For us we take ‘poverty’ to mean the ‘lack of …’ something, and wealth to be the abundance of that ‘something’.
For many people equate this with money, but we want to extend this to be other things such as: health; friendships; security and so on.
A medieval trap that was impossible to get out of. In our context we think of oubliettes in our metaphor landscapes as being like black holes in our future. Once we are in them we cannot get out and effectively it’s the end of our existance.
These are designated members of the CAN-Do activity that are there to help the ‘Do-Tanks’ check in with their Do-Tank progress on a regular basis (eg quarterly?).
A diffuse concept that normally means that a person or groups of people are physically healthy and have a strong psychological healthy attitude or lifestyle that many would describe as ‘happy’ or ‘fulfilled’ or ‘content’.
The ability for an individual or a community to be able to survive and even flourish in enviornments that are extremely challenging.
Social practices that have been done by a group for a long period of time from the past. For instance the yaqona ceremony is a traditional practice. Tradition is often confused with ‘culture’ but tradition should be thought of more as ‘cultural values from the past’.
A style of doing a ‘conference’ in which the agenda is set more by the participants, rather than having a pre-arranged agenda with programmed speakers etc.