Ivco 2007 Converging Creativity

How Convergence, Creativity and Systems Thinking have created an innovative process which holds the potential to address the great challenges we are facing •

• Nicola Jones IVCO Conference 2007, Montreal

Key Drivers of TCW • Convergence • Caring/Quality • Systems Thinking

Convergence (using the medium of access to energy) 1 person 10 tonnes

Converging World

10 people 10 tonnes energy

11 people 20 tonnes

Example of convergence • TCW carbon flow model • TCW / RSA Coffeehouse Challenge 2050 NOW • UN Gold Star Communities Programme

TCW Model UK

INDIA

• Carbon reduction programmes • Participation in local community projects

We generate renewable energy in the developing world

• Guidance on low carbon lifestyles

Carbon Reduction Projects (UK & Overseas)

and provide major support to their community projects

Information and Services (UK) We bring carbon credits back to the UK and ‘retire’ them from the marketplace

DONATIONS Donations are used to fund carbon reduction in our target markets

Contact Information

• www.theconvergingworld.org • www.schumacherinstitute.org. uk • Tel 44 (0)117 903 1080 • [email protected]

Quality/Care • Intention/vision • Ethics/empathy • Openness • Appreciation

Systems Thinking • Respects people and their needs • Promotes creativity • Requires considerable personal awareness • Focuses upon relationships between things rather than the things themselves • Continuing inquiry into assumptions and metaphors upon which our language is based and how knowledge in the West is developed is central

RSA Framework • Intention • Vision • Quality/Care • Openness • Appreciation

What we already know we are adding

• Deepening the inquiry • Diversifying the actors • Framework/Structure/ • Facilitation • Business approach