Valuing Plurality, Decolonizing Socio-Ecological Futures

As part of the ENVISIONING ETHICAL FUTURES Cluster of Excellence proposal, the Center for Life Ethics, in collaboration with the Global Heritage Lab at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, organized a summer school on the topic of “Valuing Plurality, Decolonizing Socio-ecological Futures” from July 16 to 22. The event was organized as a collaboration between the University of Bonn and the University of Ghana.

During the six-day summer school, twenty master’s and doctoral students—half from the University of Bonn and half from the University of Ghana—explored the diverse possibilities for shaping complex futures. Through workshops and field trips, they developed proposed solutions to the challenge of addressing many intertwined global crises with visions for ethical futures and sustainable strategies.

The Summer School was led by Prof. Dr. Christiane Woopen (Center for Life Ethics) and Prof. Dr. Paul Basu (Global Heritage Lab) from the University of Bonn, as well as Professor Dr. Caesar Atuire from the University of Ghana and the University of Oxford.