Dr. Aymara Victoria Llanque Zonta

The course proposes to reflect on participation and contributions for sustainability transformation from the perspective of knowledge generation. We will focus on sustainability from the point through lectures and workshop style methodology; for an understanding of political participation of social movements. We will emphasize in social learning and the adoption of a transdisciplinary approach to the interface between science, policy and practice. The inspiration will be local proposals to global changes, mainly examples of South-North North, and their pragmatic responsible towards sustainability.

There are 2 threads under which sessions will be organized in the seminar:
1. Interface of Science, Policy and Practice, resonance with social movements from North and South.
2. Understanding meta topics- transformative, transgressive and transdisciplinary learning.

The main content includes:
• Conceptualization of paradigms of value-systems with practical exercises
• Identification of relevant stakeholders and institutions for environmental decision-making
• The importance of social relationships in environmental governance
• Social conflicts and the role of deliberation

The knowledge in seminars is constructed through role-play teaching method that allows students to understand social-ecological dynamics and to assimilate the contents learned in lectures by facing realistic situations and environmental problems