Are you ready to go Beyond? The Beyonds Challenge is officially launched!

Are you ready to go Beyond?

Exciting news: the Beyonds Challenge is officially LIVE! 🚀

The Beyonds Challenge is an initiative designed to mobilize unconventional, innovative, and collective knowledge on key concepts shaping the future of sustainable development (the “Beyonds”), through a cross-disciplinary, cross-geographical, and cross-generational call for inputs.

Through the Beyonds Challenge are we encouraging the public to provide personal interpretations and definitions to four key elements defining what a sustainable, socially owned, and aware future should look like.  These four key elements are:

• Regeneration – from sustaining to restoring and healing.
• Constructive  Hope – from fear and division to positive change.
• Debt to the Future – from short-term fixes to intergenerational equity.
• The Great Unknowns – from control to embracing uncertainty.

Through the Challenge, we are calling on thinkers, creators, doers, and dreamers from all walks of life to respond to one (or more) of the four Beyonds through a concrete piece of work. It could be a concept, a design, a prototype, a manifesto, a method, a recipe, a short film, a sculpture, apoem, a business plan, whatever your medium is, show us how your mind and craft can bring a Beyond to life. For example, how would an architect design spaces that exude hope? How would a chef express regeneration through food? How would a data analyst calculate our debt to the future? How would a writer tell stories that help us navigate uncertainty?

The Challenge was officially launched during the 11th International Youth Conference11 (IYC11) within the intergenerational event titled “Beyond Words: Concrete Actions for Intergenerational Equity in Policymaking”, organized in collaboration with the International Institute for Sustainable Development(IISD) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Do not miss out on the opportunity of shaping the next sustainability agenda!

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