Almost every session I went to at the PECS conference gave me something new to think about, and I took a lot of notes also from the sessions I was not assigned to blog about. They’re all a jumble now, both notes and impressions, and I can’t really trace them back to a specific sessionContinue reading “thoughts from a session: Fostering complexity thinkers”
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interlude: My take on transdisciplinary and sustainability science
While writing my final posts about the PECS conference, I realised some background explanations were needed. So I started writing. And the paragraphs just grew and grew, until I realised I probably should turn them into a post of their own – so as not to overload you with text! So here you go, someContinue reading “interlude: My take on transdisciplinary and sustainability science”
thoughts from a session: Teaching sustainability science
[Written for and posted on the official PECSII blog on November 23] Transforming the way we think about education – Reflections from Friday innovative and immersive session “Educating ‘glocally’: place-based research in international sustainability-education” The last day of the conference, just before lunch, I attend a small immersive session on education in sustainability science. Chair,Continue reading “thoughts from a session: Teaching sustainability science”
magic Midsummer at Bergius Botanical Garden (mid-June)
Just across an oak grove hill from my office lies the Stockholm university botanical garden, called Bergianska after two Swedish important botanists who established the first botanical garden in the same location in the 18th century. A couple of days before Midsummer, I went to a guided tour of Bergianska’s herb garden, and the themeContinue reading “magic Midsummer at Bergius Botanical Garden (mid-June)”