competencies

1. Regenerative Systems thinking: the ability to analyze and act on complex dynamic systems with its interconnected elements, across different domains - Society, Politics, Ecology, Culture, Technology, Economy - and scales ranging from local to global. The ability to reflect on the regenerative potential of your project in the system.

2. Relational Reflection: the ability to reflect on your and other stakeholders values and how those relate to regeneration. In the progress the ability to shape your own learning process by being open, curious, adventurous, courageous, ambitious and motivated.

3. Symbiotic Collaboration: the ability to facilitate a collaborative group process in which you recognize each others strengths and collectively build on them. The ability to communicate timely and openly with peers, teaching staff and other stakeholders about process needs and challenges.

4. Design-oriented Research: the ability to collectively define and answer a design-oriented research question about a topic you care about, by gathering (non-)academic information through interdisciplinary and engaged methods of inquiry. The ability to collectively navigate, and if needed adapt, this process in which design and research go hand in hand.

5. Radical Imagination: the ability to collectively analyze and craft radical visions of multiple regenerative and desirable futures. The ability to find inspiration in unconventional places and sources and are able to compose future visions using ingredients from various different concepts and contexts.

6. Situated Experimentation: the ability to design and facilitate a valuable place-based learning experience, in which you aim to transform an intended public’s way of thinking, doing or feeling about regeneration in Rotterdam, in an engaging and original way.

Notes on competencies and its role in the program:
• They are sensitizing concepts
• They are provisional
• All deliverables, activities and assessments are intended to feed into the development of (one of the) competences
• Not every student needs to master all of the 6 competencies. They are free to focus on a subset of these.