“Information that does not take into account the full scope of interrelationality in a system is likely to inspire misguided decision-making, which compounds already “wicked” problems. Warm Data is not meant to replace or in any way diminish other data, but rather it is meant to keep data of certain sorts “warm” — with a nest of relations intact."
WICI Warm Data Lab: What is Education in a Changing World?
A Warm Data Lab is an invitation to begin a practice of tending to relationships through communing as a place to learn improvisation and adaption vital in an era of metacrises. Grounded in over a century of deep theoretical roots and a lineage of systems thinking, The Bateson Institute’s Warm Data Labs transform complexity science into an experiential approach of mutual learning and relationship building.
In this workshop participants will take part in a Warm Data Lab process around focused on the theme of Education in A Changing World. Following the workshop, their there will be a short presentation about the method from WICI Student Member Jim Jones and other “WDL Ontario Pod” members, a recently trained Warm Data Lab Host and a discussion about the applications of Warm Data to the University and to the wider community.
Jim Jones is a PhD Candidate in Social and Ecological Sustainability and a Student Member of WICI. His research is in the role of narratives in transitions towards sustainability through a social-ecological systems lens; the role of narrative as a tool to understand and work with complexity and 'wicked problems'; and the tensions that arise at different spatial and temporal scales in the nexus of land, energy, technology, food and culture. With nearly 20 years of experience in the UK ecology and conservation sector, Jim also couples his research interest with a practice as a narrative ecologist, using participatory narrative inquiry (PNI) supporting communities and organisations in sensemaking, vision development and action planning.