The Center for Global Agenda (CGA) at Unbuilt Labs
2022 Future of Global Governance Series
CGA is leading the Global Stakeholder Consultation Process for the Recommended UN Action Plan to Close the Compliance Gap (CCG), a publication at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). We are pleased to co-host a series of public-access workshops with organizations that have consultative status with CGA and co-create guidelines for the publication at the UN General Assembly Science Summit and beyond. We have included links to details of our events and The Future of Global Governance Series Proceedings below. We invite everyone to participate, study, reimagine, and co-create the future of global governance with us.
13 and 20 August 2022
Workshop: Nature and Natural Objects as Actors in Everyday Lives
自然をつくる国日本 (Japan: Nation Building Nature) and the Center for Global Agenda (CGA) at Unbuilt Labs is pleased to co-host a workshop to examine our relationship with nature and natural objects. This has profound implications for sustainable development and global governance in the age of climate crises. How might we reimagine historic narratives around the conquest of nature and the consumption of natural resources? What are the agentic contributions of natural objects like forests, oceans, and rivers, to our everyday lives? How might it affect our attitudes towards environmental personhood, the idea that natural objects should be a holder of legal rights and have legally recognized worth and dignity? How might we manifest the desire to coexist with nature?
This 2-part workshop invites participants to use practice-based research, and in particular photo-elicitation as a tool to record and investigate nature and natural objects as actors in our everyday lives. What socio-political and personal meanings do we attribute to nature? How might our expertise and lived experience affect our interpretation of each other’s artifacts? We welcome everyone - artists, academics, students, and private as well as public sector actors, to join us in reconceptualizing nature and natural objects.
29 September 2022
Hosted at the UN General Assembly Science Summit
See details and agenda for CGA’s events at the Summit
Announcing GCSR 2022-2023 10th Anniversary Strategic Plan and Keynote presentation by Jim Hall, FREng: Systems Science
The Global Consortium for Systems Research (GCSR) announced the GCSR 2022-2023 10th Anniversary Strategic Plan during the session including the new mandate “We study, forecast, and guide systems change to solve grand challenges”. GCSR invited Jim Hall, FREng to deliver a keynote presentation on system science.
Proceedings (with Recording)
Announcing the VSG Innovators in Residence (IIR) program
The Venture Strategy Group (VSG) at Unbuilt Labs launched the Innovators in Residence (IIR) pilot program between 2021 and 2022 where founders looking to set up solutions-oriented research organizations to solve grand challenges receive 1 year of support through monthly 1:1 advising sessions.
VSG invited two of the IIRs to present their findings on emerging issues. We are pleased to welcome Dennis Larsen and Shady El Damaty, Ph.D.
Proceedings (with Recording)
Panel Discussion on Health Policy, Research Infrastructure, and Health for All
We are delighted to welcome an esteemed panel to discusses topics including (1) data privacy, (2) engagement with civil society, and (3) the future of clinical research.
Proceedings (with Recording)
Panel Discussion on Engaging Young Leaders
We are pleased to engage panelists on the subject of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Literacy, and Education.
Proceedings (with Recording)