What did we work on?

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In shaping the challenges, the Global Goals Berlin team sought out challenge partners representative of Berlin's ecosystem and its various stakeholders, opting to prioritize systems-level challenges:

 

• Under the theme of PUBLIC HEALTH and with the ever so present context of COVID-19 – particularly the mental health strains caused by the pandemic – we chose to explore the larger issue at hand regarding urban design for public health, as well as issues at the intersection of mental health and climate change.
   

• To stay on queue, our NATURE & CLIMATE CHANGE theme challenge focused on ways to accelerate the current pace of climate action Inspired by WWF's 2020 Living Planet Report and the recent UN Global Biodiversity Report with the team deciding to focus on the role of financial institutions in accelerating climate action.
   

• The COVID-19 Pandemic exposed many weaknesses in our economic and social systems, particularly inequality in (continued) access to education. The EDUCATION FOR ALL theme challenge adopted a channel-agnostic approach to look at how education would look like in the future.
   

• Finally, we decided to adopt a food systems lens to the SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR PEOPLE & PLANET theme, considering its massive impact on both people and planet, with a look at the challenge of food waste.

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Themes were suggested by #GlobalGoalsJam initiators and global coordinators, the Digital Society School. Global Goals Berlin initiating entity 2030 Cabinet researched specific topics to shape the challenges.

 

On Friday evening, the teams explored problem statements related to the four aforementioned themes and following a short Systemic Design workshop on Saturday morning, they formulated their particular design challenge and worked their way up to a prototyped solution by Sunday.

 

Challenge formulations that were adopted by the teams are seen below