Journey to the Summit of the Future - Episode 7 - Lauren Parater
Episode 7 of the Journey to the Summit of the Future features Lauren Parater from UN Global Pulse, the UN Secretary-General's Innovation Lab.
The UN is present in almost 4,000 locations across the world - is it responsive and innovative enough to meet the critical challenges we are facing? Or are we facing a crisis of imagination in multilateralism and global governance? Lauren shares her thoughts on these questions, as well as the findings from a recent report by UN Global Pulse called "The Most Creative Look to the Future - Imagination and Creative Practice in Service of Organizational Transformation". She also reflects on how harnessing creativity and imagination could support efforts to realize a UN 2.0 that is truly capable of meeting today's challenges, as explored in the Secretary-General's Policy Brief ahead of the Summit.
Resources
Learn about the UN Secretary-General's Our Common Agenda
Find out about the Summit of the Future 2024
Read the UN Secretary-General's Policy Brief on UN 2.0 Quintet for Change
Read the report by UN Global Pulse, The Most Creative Look to the Future - Imagination and Creative Practice in Service of Organizational Transformation.
Curated Resources by the UN Library & Archives Geneva
Mentioned in the Interview (in English)
Mulgan, Geoff. ‘The Imaginary Crisis (and How We Might Quicken Social and Public Imagination)’. Universitiy College London (UCL), Demos Helsinki and Untitled, April 2020. https://demoshelsinki.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/the-imaginary-crisis-web.pdf.
Pulse, UN Global. ‘Sowing the Seeds of the Future in Colombia’. United Nations Global Pulse (blog), 14 July 2023. https://medium.com/un-global-pulse/sowing-the-seeds-of-the-future-in-colombia-f1d3bc8fc187.
Sahoo, Indranil, Elizabeth Amona, Miriam Kuttikat, and David Chan. ‘Enhancing Mental Health Predictions: A Gradient Boosted Model for Sri Lankan Camp Refugees’. Social Sciences 13, no. 5 (May 2024): 255. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13050255.
UNDP. ‘Can comic books inform the future of development? : A speculative design story.’ Accessed 30 July 2024. https://www.undp.org/fr/tunisia/blog/can-comic-books-inform-future-development-speculative-design-story.
Explore further (in English and in French)
Asplund, Therese, Ann-Sofie Kall, and Ola Uhrqvist. ‘Creative Arts for Sustainability Transformations—Exploring Children’s Theater for the UN Sustainable Development Goals’. Elementa (Washington, D.C.) 11, no. 1 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2022.00124.
Gourdault-Montagne, Maurice, and Marc Verzeroli. ‘Une diplomatie réinventée dans un monde en recomposition’. Revue internationale et stratégique 132, no. 4 (2023): 7–22. https://doi.org/10.3917/ris.132.0007.
‘Les projets d’innovation peuvent réinventer l’ONU - Médias - UNIGE’, 9 June 2021. https://www.unige.ch/medias/2021/les-projets-dinnovation-peuvent-reinventer-lonu.
Tatarinov, Katherine, and Tina C. Ambos. ‘Innovation for Impact: An International Business Perspective on Transforming the United Nations’. AIB Insights 22, no. 2 (2022): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.46697/001c.31014.
Walsh, P. P., E. Murphy, and D. Horan. ‘The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation in the UN 2030 Agenda’. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 154 (1 May 2020): 119957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.119957.
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