"Pandemonics 3.0: From Crisis to Transformation"
Prof.Dr. Ozcan Saritas, Prof.Dr. Ian Miles & Dr. Joe Ravetz
While the COVID-19 global pandemic has caused death and disruption around the world, it has also exposed underlying tensions, traumas, and conflicts. There are many hard lessons in disaster management, public health, economic recovery, and so on – and also many inspirational examples of mutual aid and social cohesion. To make the best of future opportunities, and also to learn from past experience, the practice of Foresight is crucial.
With the pandemic bringing up high levels of uncertainty and controversy, the practice of Foresight was also pushed to respond. An emerging model of Foresight 3.0 looks beyond fixing a problem with forecasting or stress-testing: it asks searching questions about multi-layered ‘grand challenges’ to the system, and then explores the potential to turn crisis into transformation.
In that way, we can frame the knowledge of such a pandemic response, as bio-medical with all connections to social, technical, economic, ecological, political, and cultural layers: in other words a Pandemonics 3.0. This wider agenda then looks for ways to turn crisis into transformation, with a ‘collective pandemonic intelligence’ across all parts of society.
In this session for the first Izmir World Pandemic Conference, we discuss the following questions:
1) Did we already predict the pandemic?
2) What did we learn from this?
3) What lies ahead in the future?
4) How to use foresight to turn 'crisis' into 'transformation'
(framed as Pandemonics 3.0)?
Many thanks to the Metropolitan Municipality of Izmir (TURKEY), BUHASDER & KLIMIK for organizing this event, and inviting us as speakers.
