My outpost, Vancouver

On the second year of the KaosPilot education the school moves the classroom to a place outside Scandinavia to create an educational outpost. This year we are going to Vancouver, Canada. Vancouver has been chosen because the city is at the forefront of sustainable urban development and because First Nation culture and ideas are finding their way into the shaping of a new paradigm for leadership thinking in sustainable societies.

The overall purpose of the Vancouver outpost is to experience and experiment with developing trends within sustainability in Vancouver and share the new knowledge with communities locally in Vancouver and Europe and globally through a combination of different media and through dialogues. During the stay the students will engage in different projects. Special emphasis is given on the areas of culture, education, environment, urban development and economy.

We, the students will learn to understand and to describe sustainability and learn how new sustainable solutions lead to new business designs and social innovation in Vancouver. They will be able to distinguish between what it means to do sustainability and to talk sustainability. They will learn how to measure and track their own sustainability and find out if actions aimed towards more sustainability have had a positive effect.

I am looking so much forward to going to Canada; I just want to go now! Even though I am a bit sad that we are leaving Ariel The Boat. But she will stay in our minds forever.