The Community Cohesion Approach as a Tool for Different Contexts and Scale

In this talk, Suhayla Bazbaz Kuri will reflect on her experience as a community organizer and social activist

This workshop aims to provide theoretical and practical knowledge about the community cohesion approach. It will be designed to enable participants to reflect on the Nova School of Business and Economics as a hub for community cohesion, both within the school community and in Carcavelos, where it is located.

What to expect?

• A reflective, participatory, and deliberative activity
• Acquiring tools that can be used beyond the workshop and the school itself
• A space where diversity is recognized and celebrated, and where problems and solutions are developed collaboratively
• An activity that emphasizes potential rather than deficits

Where

Nova School of Business and Economics, Carcavelos
Room: B131

Facilitator

Suhayla Bazbaz Kuri is a Mexican political scientist dedicated to human rights, social justice and participatory democracy. She founded Community Cohesion and Social Innovation in 2009 to strengthen community ties and promote inclusive, rights-based, community-led development across Mexico.

She leads regional initiatives such as #LetThemKnowThatWeKnow, addressing power and information asymmetries affecting Indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples, women, youth, people with disabilities and persons in mobility in decisions about their territories and megaprojects. She has facilitated the production of Archipelago, a podcast on diverse ways to defend rights and territories, as well as materials in Indigenous languages and accessible formats. She also launched Why they are here?, focused on corporatization and military integration in the Yucatán Peninsula and expanding to other regions.

She participates in Latin American collectives that advocate for authorities, businesses and financial institutions to meet their human rights obligations, and engages in demonstrations and dialogues on institutional violence against women. She delivered training to more than 8,500 stakeholders from public, private, civil, academic and media sectors.

Social Innovator in Residence

The Social Innovators in Residence are social innovators and entrepreneurs who come to spend a week at Nova SBE to share their experience and enthusiasm for social impact with our students, staff and faculty, partners and the general public.

During their visit, they engage with various audiences through one-on-one meetings, small group events or workshops or larger discussions. Additionally, they are invited to be guest speakers on the Design Thinking Roundtable Podcast.

Through this program, we aim to share knowledge, trigger meaningful interactions and conversations while sparking potential collaboration.

These workshops are organized by the the DESIS (DESIGN for Social Innovation and Sustainability) Lab @ NOVA SBE. The DESIS Lab is the programming and community engagement arm of the ERA Chair in Social Innovation. We believe that to innovate with purpose and develop sustainable solutions to complex social issues requires creative collaboration and a design thinking mindset. It is part of the DESIS International network, a group of academics, researchers and students who orient their design and research activities towards social innovation. If you want to know more: https://socialinnova-chair.com/desis-lab/