Assessment #2 Guidance
Your Task
InAssessment 1, your group presentation analysed a sustainability challenge from a case study, you identified a specific problem (or sub-set of problems) within the challenge, and proposed an intervention. In this second assessment, you will build on that work individually. Your task is to explore how your proposed intervention could be applied in practice, critically reflecting potential pathways of change.
To help you do this, you will use the Three Horizons Framework. You will use this framework to help reflect on your group’s original challenge and intervention proposal and to explore and detail possible transition pathways toward longer-term sustainability.
The Three Horizons Framework is a tool for exploring how current systems (H1) evolve through innovations (H2) towards new paradigms (H3). It emphasises dynamic relationships and co-existence between horizons rather than linear replacement models. As a framework, it helps us to think about the future of a system and how change both occurs and is influenced.
You will individually write a report (2000-words) to discuss this application. Use the details below, of the main activities, plus your own research to help you develop your report:
Introduction and Recap
Briefly re-summarise your case study and sustainability challenge from Assessment
- This should be summarised in your own words, do not copy and paste work from the group presentation. Ensure you outline the environmental, social and economic dimensions of your challenge.
State your group’s proposed intervention, refined as needed based on feedback from Assessment 1. Consider a figure to help illustrate or explain your idea.
Introduce and discuss any; critical information, background, theoretical framings (Three Horizons Framework, SDGs etc) to the reader. Use class material to support your own independent reading and study to do this.
NB: you should apply feedback (written, verbal or via awarded marks) to improve your work from the group presentation.
Defining your system, develop Three Horizons Framework
Define the ‘system’ in which your intervention sits. (System = interconnected elements, norms, actors, rules etc. which produce an outcome over time). This ‘system’ is a product of both your case study focus, and the local-global context. There is no prescribed set of criteria to define ‘a system’, use your judgement on what components (environmental, social and economic) are worth including.
Use the Three Horizons Framework to help you think about the future of your ‘system’, you may want to begin sketching out and labelling your own graph at this point (tip: iteration is key, you will learn more as you work on this assessment