Run a different kind of strategy workshop for your team.
The Second Round Workshop will see participants split off into a group matching their interest best and join a roundtable to discuss how planning, human wellbeing and natural wellbeing might be accomodated best as a means of promoting social sustainability.
Following the first round of workshops, research collaborators will be asked to choose one of three groups described below to attend the Round 2 workshop. Since each group will require an equal number of participants, spaces will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Allocations will be made as best as possible based on balancing subsequent preferences for those who do not receive their first preference.
All research collaborators will be invited to the Round 2 workshop, which will operate as a roundtable. Roundtable meetings involve open discussion in a way that promotes teamwork and communication. The Lead Researcher will host the meeting and make sure everyone gets to speak. The meeting's agenda will be planned in advance and will include specific themes for discussion. It will be broken into various segments to allow different topics or groups of participants to speak. The Lead Researcher as host will summarise key points and action items at the end of the meeting, which will have a time limit of two hours.
Materials based on the Round 1 workshops and the Lead Researcher's subsequent research shall be provided to research collaborators before the roundtable.
The three groups shall mirror the Vanishing Point! comic and comprise:
NeoPlanners will be infrastructure specialists interested in alternate infrastructure strategy. Selected infrastructure professionals will evaluate infrastructure plan formulation, set a target infrastructure state for beyond 2050, and consider ways to make infrastructure strategy more future-fit. Professionals will be consultants, planners, decision-makers, regulators, funders, owners, and operators. They will be from the transportation, energy, telecommunications, water, defence, housing, health, or justice infrastructure sectors. They may be public, private, or academic actors worldwide.
The Humanists will be a group of social media connections interested in how resources for infrastructure can be used better without jeopardizing human wellbeing.
The group will consider the actual and target (beyond 2050) states of human wellbeing as a potential human-centered method to inform how infrastructure strategy can be devised.
The Humanists would also reflect on the Built Hierarchy model (discussed here) as an approach for considering human-centered infrastructure priorities.
The Planeteers will be a group interested in improving natural wellbeing so that nature and people can co-exist more equally.
The group will be established to offer opinions and assist in developing a framework that takes nature into account while developing human infrastructure.
The Planeteers would consider how a model of natural wellbeing can be constructed as a complement to the Built Hierarchy model that will be examined by the Humanists.