Project One Earth: Equity and Equality Champion
One Earth is UAP’s commitment to creating a strategy to become Future Normal – an organisation that is fit for the 21st century, acts meaningfully in its surroundings, aims for 100% of human wellbeing, and sees money as a means, not an end. In alignment with the relevant UN’s SDGs I was appointed champion of Equity and Equality.
One Earth is UAP’s commitment to creating a strategy to become Future Normal – an organisation that is fit for the 21st century, acts meaningfully in its surroundings, aims for 100% of human wellbeing, and sees money as a means, not an end.
The journey began with a vision to be creatively influential and bring out the best from the world’s leading creatives. However, in the 21st century this is not enough, and now more than ever, UAP needs to have stronger and more active sustainability, systems thinking and eco-efficiency agenda.
This change began with a suite of professional development activities and training facilitated by Griffith Business School Professors Nick Barter and Chris Fleming. Through the intervention, UAP is enabling its Project One Earth and transforming through purposeful incrementalism, to an organisation that is FutureNormal.
Learnings at an organisational culture level have been: (1) Responsibility – we all have a responsibility to contribute; (2) Making change is empowering; and (3) Don’t wait for leadership – be a leader.
Materially this has meant UAP is working to: implement solar solutions for its operations and and its local community, engage in rainwater harvesting, amplify activities for the well-being of its staff, and pursue eco-efficient solutions to its products and production processes.
This is not only in Brisbane; all initiatives are being replicated and applied to UAP’s studios and workshops in New York and Shanghai.
The training and ongoing advice is enabling UAP to adjust to a Future Normal mindset and have led to the identification of eight relevant sustainable development goals and associated projects that UAP will pursue on the journey of transformation to become sustainable and meet the following goals:
For 2030, at least 45% decrease in our greenhouse gas emissions, at least 40% share for renewable energy use across all studios and workshops, and at least 35% improvement in energy efficiency.
For 2050, meet net-zero carbon emissions and create a global art foundry that is sustainable, eco-efficient, focuses on systems-thinking and is climate positive.
Listen up.
Listen to Professor Nick Barter and Professor Christopher Fleming from Griffith University in discussion with Gilbert Guaring and Ineke Dane from UAP. UAP is the world's largest art manufacturer. This unique partnership with Griffith helped UAP move towards becoming a FutureNormal organisation with a more sustainable mindset.
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Year
2019
Role
Design Researcher, facilitator of design workshop, environmental/design strategist
Design Researcher at QUT