Exercises on creative thinking about the UN SDGs in education

Irene-C. Fjell Kjønnerød
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL)
Imagine you are going to use your professional skills and tools in other ways and arenas than you are used to. Then imagine your regular professional arenas and partners are not available to you. Instead, you must collaborate with other professions, the surroundings, and the public, and use your professional and personal skills in other ways than what you are used to. These thoughts and ideas map this exercise, that I welcome and invite you all to join in on. Be inspired, try, slip, and try again.
Thinking creatively about sustainability in an educational setting might inspire lecturers and students to broaden their perspectives about practice and give new ideas to how and where we might increase our actions. We all live in a changing world, where today’s reality might be invalid tomorrow. Professional life is changing as well, giving new opportunities for learning from others than the usual “tribe”, aka our own profession and colleagues. The UN SDGs are incorporated in the HVL strategies and as lecturers, we try our best to understand and find our roles when teaching.
I have given similar lectures about creativity and the sustainability goals in Bachelor of Physiotherapy and Bachelor of Nursing at Western Norway University of Applies Sciences, in Bergen, as well as in interprofessional courses and in a digital festival hosted by The Environmental Physiotherapy Association.
Relevant for:
All the SDGs