The Collectivity Revolution: Building a Global Community

Course focus and approach:
The course in all, will underpin examples of COLLECTIVE initiatives and organizational trends occurring in the context of an ultra-highly CONNECTED global society, that can no longer solve the challenges of the 21STCentury through singled-out efforts, or based solely on “individual” strengths and values. The course features an overview of efficient techniques, methods and languages and also ethics value
propositions and guidance of selected cases in a variety of fields such as corporate sectors businesses, culture responsibility brands, innovation science, culture and the Arts, global movements activism, including reflections upon present-future social and
civil societies governance, in general.
“The Collectivity Revolution”, in the eye of Innovation and Knowledge Transfer for a Better Quality Life and World, is an account on the main topic challenges of a new paradigm context. Overall, the course highlights on the technological, scientific and
social developments and its affectations in the global management of businesses, organizations and other societal agents and communities; emphasizing on the challenges, inequalities but also on the opportunities of our current world, sitting in the
context of critical Globalization, Technology, Sustainability issues. The title of the course responds to a play-on-words between the terms Collective and Connectivity, bringing light to the Revolutionary outcomes of its merging forces.

Course description:
Says author Yuval Harari, that the capacity to organize ourselves collectively through a “fiction” or abstract concept agreement –such as money- is the singled-out most distinctive characteristic of humans beings vs other species. However, the question today, is: What is in the value propositions of our exchanges? And how can they help us to better build more efficient and quality societies?
Rapidly shifting paradigms are proposing new ideas and tools on how to face the now inevitable purpose of maintaining our sustainability mid-long term; not just in business organizations, but more importantly, in society and as human beings. In the scope of global challenges, solutions are forced to expressively respond to collective operational schemes and thus obligating us to reflect and rethink and reshape
the future of our values, expectations and overall our living standards and those of the generations to come.

Learning objectives:
To achieve a global understanding of the new context paradigms of society, economies and other relevant organizations.
To be able to reflect argumentatively upon the current global challenges and the collective responsibilities at stake
To anticipate visions of organizing future society and for see current opportunities and constraints at stake.

Teaching methodology:
The course is divided into lectures, discussions, and class seminars. (PANDEMIC Restrictions will be followed according to the University’s and Program’s protocols and will be advised accordingly when necessary). Students should be prepared to read and review mandatory articles and other bibliographic material and prepare for group presentations over topics and class exercises proposed. Students will be asked to turn in a final assessment individual paper at the end of the course.

Assessment criteria:
Class Participation: 10 %
Seminars Reviews and Team Presentations: 20%
Final Paper: 70 %

Syllabus -summary of class topics
Courses topics are within the following 5 areas of Thought and Reflection. See weekly program
for specifics on the course’s programming.
1/The Need of Collective Responses to Overwhelming Challenges of the present and near future (Climate Change, Overpopulation, Food Production and Resource and Energy Supply)
2/New Organization Paradigms. Proximity values and solutions. Case studies of Industry Rescues in Europe - Industrial and Commercial Collaborative Organizations.
Community re-organization and competitiveness. Social Movements.
3/Emotional and Rational Connectivity Challenges of the Future. Case studies of the use of Digital Technology in Human Health and Scientific Advances and Developments. The implications in the Human condition. The emotional consequences
of robotic interactions and relationships.
4/Business Accountability in the 21st C. Beyond CSR: Corporate Culture Responsibility. New Stakeholders demands. Social Activism. Citizenship. The sense and sensibilities of the industry models of the future. The change of paradigms in
 industry sectors such as Fashion, Food and Mobility, example case studies in dealing with the most prominent transformation challenges.
5/Ethics in a Post-human era
A reflection upon the “Philosophies and Religions” of the future.