Towards Social Responsibility of Institutions: Education, Public Health and Design


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Wyższa Szkoła Europejska im. ks. Józefa Tischnera w Krakowie
Częstochowa, ul. Zbierskiego 2/4

Keynote speakers:

* (design) Ruben Pater (Royal Academy of Art, the Hague, Netherlands)

* (education) Dr Marcin Starnawski (University of Lower Silesia, Wrocław, Poland)

* (public health) to be announced soon

CFP: The times we live in are called Anthropocene. The term points directly to the human being as the agent that determines both life forms and the environment for the life forms to develop. The reports on climate change have been unanimous: if humans do not reorganise their socio-economic mindset in a radical way, the world the next generations are going to inherit will be a world of no future, a world challenged by wars over resources, climate refugees, and animal and plant species dying out in large numbers.

The dominant socio-economic practice called capitalism is considered to be the guiding light into the end of the future as we knew it. The obsession with economic growth, the lure of the opportunities the financial capital opens up, and the psychological investment in the idea of making more and more profit, lead, as many critics claim, Western societies onto the brink of civilizational disaster. Depression is believed to soon rank as the most common illness in the West, school becomes a master tool for mass production of conformists, universities change into capitalocentric companies, and, last but not least, the space around us becomes less and less socially and economically friendly.

◾ What is then, at present, the role of the institutions that determine the well-being of society?

◾ How to think social responsibility of the institutions shaping the policies of education, public health and the design of the environment we inhabit, use and share? How do they condition one another?

◾ How, and to what extent, can spontaneous outbursts of social resistance influence the dynamics and trajectory of those institutions?

◾ And, finally, how can we think a world where the institutions of education motivate humans to live lives founded on social responsibility, social equality and the freedom to be whoever they want to be, the quality of one’s job is satisfactory, the index statistics of depression and life anxiety remain as low as possible, and the space we inhabit, use and share contributes to our well-being and facilitates social relations?

We welcome papers, proposals for workshops and posters. Please send proposals (for 15-minute papers, workshops or posters) to srconference2019@gmail.com by 31 October, 2019. Accepted speakers will be notified by 4 November, 2019.

Conference fee: 150 PLN.

The contributions will be selected for publication.

Organizing committee:
Mateusz Barłóg, PhD candidate
Kinga Blaschke, PhD
Karolina Koźlak
Zuzanna Łazarewicz
Rafał Majka, PhD
Anna Treska-Siwoń, PhD candidate
Roksana Ulatowska, PhD

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The conference is co-financed by the European Social Fund under the Operational Program Knowledge Education Development, non-competitive project "Enhancing the competences of academic staff and the institution's potential in receiving people from abroad - Welcome to Poland" implemented as part of 3.3 PO WER defined in the application for project co-financing No. POWR.03.03.00-00-PN14 / 18.






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Aktualizacja:  2019-10-17