Learning about “wicked” problems in the Global South. Creating a film-based learning environment with “Visual Problem Appraisal”

New challenges for communication for sustainable development and social change: a review essay

“…Therefore, solutions need to be negotiated, for instance in multistakeholder platforms. Such types of negotiating or 'social dialog' are promoted for concrete purposes, such as reclaiming indigenous knowledge or monitoring and evaluation, but increasingly also from a rights-based perspective that all people have a right to be heard, especially when 'the main debates take place in documents which they do not write, or in meetings which they do not attend' (Slim and Thompson 1993, 4;Witteveen and Lie 2012) . There is a need for transdisciplinarity.…”

Disciplines in the Field of Communication for Development and Social Change

“…Therefore, solutions need to be negotiated, for instance in multistakeholder platforms. “Such types of negotiating or “social dialogue” are promoted for concrete purposes, such as, reclaiming indigenous knowledge or monitoring and evaluation, but increasingly also from a rights‐based perspective that all people have a right to be heard” (Witteveen & Lie, , p. 52).…”

Learning environments for multi-stakeholder participation in water management: Visual Problem Appraisal Citarum River

“…VPA is a film-based learning strategy with ethnographic, deliberative and artistic aspects, which aims to enhance the problem analysis of complex issues and to facilitate the development of actions. The characteristic component of a VPA set is a series of stakeholders' interviews or filmed portraits which creates a space for problem analysis, social dialogue and policy design [9].…”