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Welcome to the Deep Societal Innovation for Sustainability and Human Flourishing (DSIS) Project


About the DSIS Project

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DSIS is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded project which seeks to develop a new methodology for conceptualising deep whole-of-society transformation for a trajectory towards authentic sustainability and human flourishing.

The current 'polycrisis'/'metacrisis' has stirred a sense of urgency for policy responses and behavioral changes needed to embark on the structural transformations required to tackle pressing global challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, destabilising levels of inequality, a cost-of-living crisis, the erosion of democracy, rising geopolitical divisions, accelerated migration patterns, and war. However, global responses to this historical moment have so far fallen short. DSIS attempts to model a response to this diversity of crises imbued with an appropriate level of vision. 

DSIS is an inter- and transdisciplinary, inter-institutional, and international initiative, with the ambitious aim to profoundly change the future – for the better, by reimagining the key social institutions of

  • politics
  • economics
  • technology
  • religion and spirituality
  • gender and care
  • education

so that societies can be re-configured to better meet the challenges of our time, as reflected in the United Nations Agenda 2030 and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

For previous activity in this area, visit the project site or the pre-cursor ‘DIIS’, led by Dr Ian Hughes.

 

 

Deep Societal Innovation for Sustainability and Human Flourishing

Sustainability Institute, Ellen Hutchins Building, University College Cork, Lee Road, Cork, Ireland T23 XE10 ,

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