TRENDS 4TH

• CREATIVE IMAGINATION - imagination is the beginning of creation
• Engages the mind
• Frees the mind
• Enables alternative ways of thinking
• Enables empathy
• Connects us to ourselves
• Sense of togetherness
• 8. Connect reflection with action9. Builds intercultural connection10. Connects us to different culture
• Create your own three Ifs - there are no universal recipes for innovation.

  >What would happen if I changed it?

  >What would I change or improve about this object if I wanted to use it in 10 years??

  >What would I do if I had a one-million-dollar investment to improve it
• Practice Dreaming - the greatest paradox
• Learn to pitch your ideas - if you cannot express your idea in three sentences, you don't have an idea.
• Bounce ideas of others
• GLOBALIZATION - entails extending communication, knowledge, and information to everybody in aims of becoming a collaborative culture
• GLOBAL SOCIETY - a society that is being built in modern times on which all the people of the world hace a good deal in common with one another
• Make time for creative cohesive thinking - allocate time
• The notion of global is essential. In other words,

  global societies cannot be about one nation, no matter how big or influential. A global society, therefore, must be international.
• The notion of society is important. Even though

  people are removed, there is enough commonality that they not only understand each other, but also are in some ways vested in each other
• SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - progress or changes that capture the needs of the present
• CLIMATE CHANGE - unavoidable challenge affecting various aspects of society
• Environmental Philosophy - moral connection and relationship between the environment and its non-human aspects to human beings
• Environmental Ethics - Analyze decision making, values, modes of behavior
• Environmental Aesthetics - natural beauty of the surroundings
•  ANTHROPOCENTRISM - humans as the superior in creation
• BIOCENTRISM - humans are not the only significant species on earth.
• ECOCENTRISM - humans to be devoted to preserving the totality of Earth's biodiversity.
• DEEP ECOLOGY - Norwegian, Arne Naess, all forms of life have rights to exist equally.
• ECOFEMINISM - Women both suffer from how they are treated in a male-dominated society.
• SOCIAL ECOLOGY - Murray Bookchin, tends to critique social, political and anti-ecological trends
• DEMOCRACY

  "demos" and "kratos"

  = "the common people" "rule of power"
• "rule of the majority"

  • by the people, of the people, and for the people.
• Dahl; 5 criteria

  1. electoral participation

  2. Control of the agenda

  3. Enlightened understanding

  4. Effective participation

  5. Equality in the voting process
• Direct / Participatory - people themselves exercise the powers of the government
• Representative - citizens elect government officials
• TWO MODELS OF RD:

  1. TRUSTEE MODEL- treats the representatives as experts

  2. DELEGATE MODEL- spokesperson of the represented or electorate.
• Participatory democracy is a system of government in which the

  People themselves can make public decisions.
• THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

  • essential human rights to be universally protected
• classifications of human rights:

  Personal

  Political

  Socioeconomic

  Cultural
• The people "desmos" - electoral participation
• control of the agenda - exculsive opportunity to vote
• enlightened understanding - members are entitled