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Social Science is increasingly called on to address “grand challenges”, “wicked problems”, “societal dilemmas” and similar problematiques. Examples include climate change, the war on drugs and urban poverty. It is now widely agreed that the disciplinary structure of academic science, with its journals, curricula, peer communities, etc., is not well suited to such trans-disciplinary, ill-bounded, controversial issues, but the ways forward are not yet clear or accepted by the mainstream. The concept of a next generation paradigm of “Science 3.0” has emerged through work on sustainability systems analysis, and for this multiple channels for learning, thinking and communications are essential. Visual thinking in its many forms (from technical representation or mapping, to photography or video, to design or illustration, to fine art) can bring to the table tacit and “felt” knowledge, creative experience and links from analysis with synthesis. This paper first sketches the contours of a Social Science 3.0, and then demonstrates with examples how visual thinking can combine with rational argument, or extend beyond it to other forms of experience.
Joe Ravetz; Amanda Ravetz. Seeing the wood for the trees: Social Science 3.0 and the role of visual thinking. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 2016, 30, 104 -120.
AMA StyleJoe Ravetz, Amanda Ravetz. Seeing the wood for the trees: Social Science 3.0 and the role of visual thinking. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research. 2016; 30 (1):104-120.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJoe Ravetz; Amanda Ravetz. 2016. "Seeing the wood for the trees: Social Science 3.0 and the role of visual thinking." Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 30, no. 1: 104-120.
Port cities are on the front-line of a changing global urban system. There are problems from restructuring of trade, logistics and ship-building, creating economic dependency, social exclusion and cultural destruction. Meanwhile, there exists new opportunities in heritage tourism, cultural industries and ecological restoration, but these opportunities often have negative impacts. This paper addresses the question of how port cities can steer from negative to positive development paths and outcomes. It sets out a way of working with inter-connected economic, social, political and technological factors—a ‘synergistic’ approach to mapping of problems and design of policy responses. Looking at three contrasting examples of port cities—Liverpool, Dubai and Mauritius—we can compare the inter-connected dynamics of growth and decline. Then we can understand the inter-connected factors of successful regeneration and sustainable prosperity, not as linear ‘policy fixes’, but more like synergistic processes of learning, innovation and capacity building. These call for new models for creative innovation in social and community enterprise: cultural heritage both old and new; new social finance and investment; socio-ecological restoration with participative governance, etc. Such pathways and opportunities are now emerging in many different locations; this paper provides methods and tools to understand them and promote them.
Joe Ravetz. New Futures for Older Ports: Synergistic Development in a Global Urban System. Sustainability 2013, 5, 5100 -5118.
AMA StyleJoe Ravetz. New Futures for Older Ports: Synergistic Development in a Global Urban System. Sustainability. 2013; 5 (12):5100-5118.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJoe Ravetz. 2013. "New Futures for Older Ports: Synergistic Development in a Global Urban System." Sustainability 5, no. 12: 5100-5118.
Some of the most populous parts of England are neither urban nor rural, but somewhere in between: a new kind of peri-urban landscape emerging in the fringes and hinterlands of cities and city-regions. Such peri-urban areas reflect both a more networked, mobile, globalised society, and also one which increasingly values local character and quality of life. The Manchester city region is one of these areas, a poly-centric agglomeration of several large towns and cities, between which an extensive peri-urban zone flows, linking them together like a form of connective tissue.
Joe Ravetz; Pam Warhurst. Manchester: Re-Inventing the Local–Global in the Peri-Urban City-Region. Peri-urban futures: Scenarios and models for land use change in Europe 2012, 169 -207.
AMA StyleJoe Ravetz, Pam Warhurst. Manchester: Re-Inventing the Local–Global in the Peri-Urban City-Region. Peri-urban futures: Scenarios and models for land use change in Europe. 2012; ():169-207.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJoe Ravetz; Pam Warhurst. 2012. "Manchester: Re-Inventing the Local–Global in the Peri-Urban City-Region." Peri-urban futures: Scenarios and models for land use change in Europe , no. : 169-207.
The UK building stock has seen major changes in the last 50 years, in its form, fabric and function. The context is the expansion of the building stock and built infrastructure, which takes place in most areas at 1–2% per year, with the implication that up to 75% of the dwellings of the year 2050 already exist now. This is a major challenge. The energy performance of much of this stock is generally low, while its economic, social and cultural values are often high. The purpose of this review is to provide a brief outline of the state of knowledge of the existing building stock, and of potential advances in that knowledge. We follow a knowledge mapping approach, set out on several axes. The first is an axis from buildings as physical forms, to buildings as containers of socio-economic activity. Another axis spans between existing buildings, renovations and adaptations, and new buildings. A third axis is that of scale, from building components to large-scale settlements. There are many possible combinations of these parameters. Here we focus on those that are most relevant to the SEMBE goals of sustainable energy management across the whole building stock.
Joe Ravetz. State of the stock—What do we know about existing buildings and their future prospects? Energy Policy 2008, 36, 4462 -4470.
AMA StyleJoe Ravetz. State of the stock—What do we know about existing buildings and their future prospects? Energy Policy. 2008; 36 (12):4462-4470.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJoe Ravetz. 2008. "State of the stock—What do we know about existing buildings and their future prospects?" Energy Policy 36, no. 12: 4462-4470.