🌍✨ Ready to delve into the world of grassroots sustainability? Join us for an insightful exchange on how everyday actions can help achieve a sustainable society! ✨🌍
🗓️ Date: November 21 (Thu)
🕒 Time:
15:00 – 16:30 (Lecture and Q&A)
16:30 – 18:00 (Conduct group discussions in the style of a Civic Cafe)
📍 Venue: Room 301, International Building, NCCU
🔗 Register now: https://reurl.cc/xvzzD5
Hosted by the International College of Innovation, we invite you to this exceptional lecture!
🌱 Topic: Repair, Everyday Sustainability, and Social Resilience
🎤 Speaker: Hua-Mei CHIU, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU), Taiwan
🎙️ Chair: Paul JOBIN, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica & Adjunct Associate Professor, International College of Innovation, NCCU
🔍 Highlights
Amid the rise of grassroots sustainability initiatives worldwide, repair movements have become an essential model of everyday sustainable activism. This lecture will explore the development of both local and global repair movements, such as the Southern Taiwan Repair Alliance, examining how efforts to extend product life cycles and challenge planned obsolescence are creating more inclusive and resilient communities.
📚 Reading
- Pesch, Udo, Wouter Spekkink & Jaco Quist (2019) “Local sustainability initiatives: innovation and civic engagement in societal experiments,” European Planning Studies, 27(2): 300-317.
