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Marieke Veeger
@MariekeVeeger
Disruptive seeds for radical change. Scenarios & Policy Researcher. Inclusive foresight for long term climate resilience & mitigation. Latin America.
San José, Costa Ricaccafs.cgiar.org/es/about/peopl…Joined September 2010

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So lovely to hear our collaborative foresight work in Costa Rica shared at the forum! Thanks
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Deep Decarbonisation pathways project findings on Long term strategy with IADB by Marta Torres Gunfaus at IIDRI at #scenariosforum and thought I'd share the amazing work @MariekeVeeger did in Costa Rica under @cgiarclimate_LA ccafs.cgiar.org/news/costa-ric
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Truly enjoyed doing this research and find out how the anticipation of futures has been linked to decision making about climate change in Central America. How awesome to be part of this paper lead by the stellar
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Final paper in my thesis is now published open access in @GEC_Journal. Thanks to coauthors @Vervoort_Joost @AartiGupta17 @MariekeVeeger Rathana Peou NM @MalihaMuzammil & @peterpjdriessen, interviewees and informants. sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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"No piece of art has ever emotionally affected me the way this robot arm piece has. It's programmed to try to contain the hydraulic fluid that’s constantly leaking out and required to keep itself running...if too much escapes, it will die so it's desperately trying to pull it… Show more
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Folks in the Netherlands, please spread this far and wide to your friends who are doing cool, radical and experimental projects in the sustainability space! We would love to give them the opportunity to present their work!
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🌱 Join the Seeds Festival! An evening of exchange where Seeds—radical sustainability initiatives—will be presented by practitioners & students alike. Practitioners, contact @Vervoort_Joost to present your work. 📅June 8 🕙8-10pm 📌Social Impact Factory buff.ly/3LSE880
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Quiero esto para San José. Quiero escuchar a una señora que decidió mudar a Cartago porque con el tren eléctrico viaja facil para San José y de camino al estación deja sus hijos en bici en el kinder. Y que el valor de su casa solo va en aumento, porque si, el tren.
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I'm advocating for cities where people have multiple, affordable, efficient, safe, and enjoyable choices in transportation that serve sustainability and well-being.
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Waking up early to share with how climate security pathways in Central America can also be about envisioning bright futuresBeautiful to feel the room captivated by disruptive seed initiatives in Guatemala that inspire imagining more just and sustainable futures
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How cool is this. Kids (and big kids :-) playing games that make them realize it is not all about them
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[3/3] While it is merely a drop in the ocean, we hope to inspire (upcoming) game designers to challenge deeply rooted assumptions about human exceptionalism, and lay bare the various ways in which our environments, thoughts, and movements are intimately intertwined. xoxo
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We must consider local and indigenous knowledge of we want to imagine new approaches to sustainability transformations
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How does Western knowledge differ from indigenous knowledge?⁠ ⁠ ICREA researcher at @ICTA_UAB Victoria Reyes explains the significance of local and indigenous knowledge for environmental sustainability, a core concept explored in the new book on Joan Martinez-Alier.
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How can you creatively contribute to sustainability transformations? and team stepping out of the box again - Worth scrolling down all the way!
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THREAD! How do we evaluate creative practices for their capacity to contribute to sustainability transformations? Our @CreaturesEu 9 Dimensions tool is available now! Developed with creatives, funders, policy makers and researchers! Let's open it up! creaturesframework.org/funding/creatu
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Congrats and team! We need bold and different ways to attend the climate crisis
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YES YES YES!!!!🔥 overjoyed that All Rise - our game where you take big fossil fuel actors to court - has been funded by @StimuleerFonds! The funders appreciate the bold idea of a subversive, humorous climate court game + have great faith in the team! anticiplay.medium.com/our-climate-co
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Love this! Collectively reimagining how to report about crime could improve wellness and safety in communities
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Excited to launch It’s Criminal, a new Glasgow-based participatory journalism-meets-theatre project exploring how stereotypical crime reporting can negatively impact neighbourhoods and communities, and how that can be reimagined contemporarynarratives.org/2023/02/13/its
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I finished this book yesterday. It took me 6 months and it's is the first one in 2 years that I actually finished. So proud I kept this promise to myself of taking care of me and taking time to do nothing 🌟
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Self love begins with self respect. Self respect begins with keeping promises to yourself.
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I absolutely LOVE my job - and this is so true.
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“Remember that you are replaceable in your job. You are not replaceable as a wife, husband, father, mother, daughter, son, or friend. Put on your own oxygen mask first and give yourself and your colleagues permission to take the time you deserve to recover.” From article in BMJ
What a jewel!
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I’m SO excited to share this special issue on Anticolonial Feminist Imaginaries 🌟 edited by the wonderful @AlinaSajed and myself for @KohlJournal! It’s open access, in English and Arabic, and includes Asad Faulwell’s beautiful artwork kohljournal.press/issue-9-1
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Call me silly, pero acabo de quitar todo el tape del papel de regalo para poder usar el papel en la compostera y se siente demasiado bien. Merry Christmas! 🎄
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This meme workshop will be awesome! Please join us and learn how you can use memes to communicate future scenarios and shape actions in the present
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Have you struggled with communicating your future scenarios to others? 🤔 The Meme Your Scenarios Workshop is for you! Facilitated by meme researcher Seong-Young Her, we delve into memes for #AnticipatoryGovernance Register below: anticipatorygovernance.community/event-details/
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We're super excited this paper is out! We need disruption to achieve transformation and need to imagine how better futures look like. I feel so lucky to work w and get to know radical initiatives that embrace just and sustainable ways of producing food.
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'Disruptive seeds: a scenario approach to explore power shifts in sustainability transformations' is out now! This paper led by @LucasRutting adapts the @SeedsGA approach to focus specifically on power shifts and conflicts as central for transformations. link.springer.com/article/10.100
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