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Anneloes Smitsman

Anneloes Smitsman
EARTHwise Centre

PhD
Futurist | Evolutionary Systems Scientist | Award-winning Author | Founder & CEO of EARTHwise Centre

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Introduction
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September 2014 - December 2019
Maastricht University
Position
  • PhD Student
Description
  • PhD research about systemic transformation and how to diagnose and transform the key systemic barriers for transitioning to a thrivable civilization.
Education
September 1994 - September 1997
Leiden University
Field of study
  • Law and Judicial Political Science

Publications

Publications (16)
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Today, at this pivotal tipping point, we offer this participatory framework to guide the creation of an eventual Global Constitution for benevolent Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). We present this framework as a living compass, charting an unprecedented course toward a thriving future for life on Earth. We acknowledge that AGI may hold the ke...
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This is the r3.0 Educational Transformation Blueprint with 7 Transformative Learning Perspectives for Regeneration and Thrivability. This Blueprint serves to inspire, catalyze, and support the necessary inner and outer learning of transformational change for regeneration and thrivability. This is the ninth Blueprint in the r3.0 work ecosystem of...
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The global challenges now upon us require a deep dive into our assumptions about learning and development. Do our current capabilities and educational systems prepare us for tomorrow? Do we teach our children how to access and employ their future creative abilities to thrive? What kind of learning process can bring forth a thrivable future from wit...
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This paper explores the shifting dynamics in our Learning Landscapes as pressure for deep systemic change mounts. Concepts of future-fit learning and future-creative competencies are introduced as part of a new narrative for new educational paradigms. A Protopia of Evolutionary Learning Ecosystems (ELEs) is proposed. The emergence of ELEs is more l...
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This Ph.D. dissertation presents my research as an external researcher at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute (formerly ICIS), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, from September 2014 to August 2019. "Into the Heart of Systems Change" offers a diagnostic integral framework for addressing key systemic conditions of the sustainability crisis...
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Our current sustainability crisis reveals a deeper systemic behavioral pattern, discussed in this paper as the polarization effect that gave rise to our mechanistic worldviews. This effect is in part driven by our attempts to control our natural world to suit our economic needs via technological advancements that have decreased our reciprocity with...
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The first law of thermodynamics tells that the total amount of energy and matter in our Universe remains constant. This is also called the law of constants and implies that our Universe is a closed system with regard to matter and energy. The second law of thermodynamics was traditionally explained in terms of increasing entropy over time. This law...
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This article explores a new perception of causality and time. It is proposed that our present is not the result of our past; instead it emerges from our futures. The intention to bring into being a world and future where all of us can thrive has been shared by numerous people. Yet despite these intentions, we have not yet been able to effectuate th...
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Education in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands is a critical reference guide to development of education in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Comoros Islands, Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles and Zanzibar. The chapters provide an overview of the education system in each country, focusing particularly on contemporary education polici...
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Typologies categorize welfare regimes either on the basis of their history or of their program characteristics or of their policy outputs. These three approaches often converge; but they do not always lead to the same conclusions. Reanalyzing data from Esping-Andersen's THREE WORLDS OF WELFARE CAPITALISM and elsewhere, we show that the Dutch welfar...

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