Adam Smith Business School

Dr Maribel Blasco, Copenhagen Business School

'Regenerating Learning: Permaculture as a living case at a business school'
Thursday 27 January, 10am - 11.30am 
Zoom online seminar

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Abstract

At the seminar, I will share with you our plans to create a permaculture garden – ‘Permahaven’ - on CBS campus in Frederiksberg municipality (Copenhagen). The vision for the Permahaven (‘haven’ is both the English term for ‘sanctuary’ and the Danish term for ‘the garden’) is to create a regenerative space for CBS students, faculty and Frederiksberg local residents, as well as a hub for learning and disseminating knowledge about regenerative social and environmental practices, inspired by permaculture principles (people care - earth care - fair share). The space will, we hope, both support and reflect an alternative CBS that values a low-key approach, local commitment, slow tempo and rhythms, learning through sensory experience, and emphasis on collective processes as end goals. This alternative CBS is very much alive, but is not currently very visible or accessible to outsiders in the overall university landscape. We have coined the concept of ‘living case’ to capture the idea of CBS Permahaven as an ongoing ‘lab’ that can be used for different learning and research purposes. We hope ultimately to train and engage student and local resident volunteers as teachers who disseminate knowledge about these issues more widely in their networks and communities.

Biography

Dr Blasco's research focuses on management learning and higher education, notably at business schools; as well as cross-cultural inquiry. She is interested in learning not only as the transfer of know-how and technical skills but also more broadly as a process of identity formation, acculturation and development of tacit abilities such as intercultural competences, ethical awareness and creativity and innovation; and in exploring how students apprehend and negotiate the implicit messages received via the ‘hidden curriculum’ at business schools in different cultural contexts.

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Further information: business-school-research@glasgow.ac.uk 

First published: 20 December 2021