Reposted by Tom Hargreaves
We're thrilled to be offering a brand new MSc in #Sustainability and #Society in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, starting this September!
Full details here:
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New Sustainability and Society MSc at UEA will put society at the heart of sustainability
The new MSc in Sustainability and Society created by the 3S Research Group in the School of Environmental Sciences at UEA will explore the social science of sustainability, helping students to deve…
![Rather than accruing benefits only to a small, socially elite group of innovators, a truly modern innovation economy must seek to create more plural, more equitable opportunities that are accessible beyond major research institutions and massive tech corporations, that prioritise regeneration over extraction, and that uplift and empower people and communities in their diversity.
"Small" in this case does not mean a lack of ambition; it denotes a lack of concentration - a tendency towards pluralism, and an embrace of many possible, parallel realities and futures that are imagined within limits.
The resource intensive nature of modern technologies at scale make these steps urgent, and it seems likely that a shift to smaller-scale and more distributed approaches to computing will become an imperative over the coming decade. [4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dvvvi2lfda3eq46zikkozitb/bafkreidz7dr4l3rcyapdfywjyqbhraez44seqq7gv7kp6nnzzrwoxuepo4)
![4. Intelligences: What interventions are needed to enable technologies to be created and altered to enable a
"repertoire of intelligences" [5] rather than support returns to a small number of Silicon Valley companies and investors?
5. Organising: What methods of organising are needed? What does organising in this new normal look like? How can communities organise for a new innovation economy?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dvvvi2lfda3eq46zikkozitb/bafkreihcxxrzn3m3zisjzd4clr3xnx675nitda4xt2wsypy2rmtjijxpjm)
