How we can help restore the foundation for life on Earth | Ariane König | TEDxUniversityofLuxembourg
Changes we experience in our daily life from technological innovation, migration and demography, changes in social and cultural norms, and the environment we live in including the ecosystems we are a part of are all interconnected. Yet, the way we produce new knowledge to inform innovation in policy making, in the economy, as well as in how we fashion our personal lifestyles is organized in disciplinary silos and sectors. We need to better understand and unravel such systemic mutual influences across the material, social and personal spheres for the purpose of taking action and learning to regenerate ecosystems that we are embedded in and depend upon for our existence. Ariane König is a Senior Researcher at the University of Luxembourg, where she and her team are engaged in research projects to facilitate and learn from social processes with experts and stakeholders to address complex sustainability challenges in our interconnected water and food systems in practice. She also built and coordinates an innovative study programme in ‘Sustainability and Social Innovation’ that is open to students and professionals. Initially König was trained as a genetic engineer at the University of Cambridge, and first worked on risk regulation for a leading multinational life science corporation. Thereafter she joined the universities of Harvard and Oxford, where she conducted research and taught postgraduate and executive training courses on the governance of new technologies and risk, with a focus on agricultural food production. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx