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Living Change Rubric V2

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Defining and developing a visionary project for implementing sustainability and developing community.

Rubric Code: KXC6WX9

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Subject: Humanities

Type: Project

Grade Levels: Undergraduate

Living Change Project Rubric Development of Vision Project
	Description May 5 (N/A)
Problem Definition Defining goals; assessing options
Project Vision What specific aspect of sustainability are you interested in? Define an intervention with specific goals to be achieved through the lifespan of (hypothetical) project.	Description Your overarching goal is articulated in a clear, compelling, and hopeful format. Details of specific project goals and anticipated results are articulated. (This is a quick summary of your sustainability impact assessment findings, below.) The viewer/reader has a clear image of your vision.
Current trends & conditions Research and review needs and issues. Establish specific goals to be achieved through the project.	Description Assess current realities with Donut of Justice (classes 3 & 5) or another accounting tool (eg., common good matrix) that takes stock of current social and environmental baselines. Is the situation improving or declining? What are the conditions that have enabled these trends to happen (worldviews, assumptions, economic realities, etc). Analyze how your project may impact the defining conditions that created your challenge.
Project alternatives Consider alternative projects or products that could accomplish your goals. Consider several options.	Description How to do this: State several project alternatives, listing the ways each could achieve your stated goals. Define/judge sustainability outcomes for each alternative across social, ecological, and economic realms. Select project that has the best "fit" with your stated goals. Research other projects with similar goals and content.
Project Definition Articulating your chosen path or project. What solution will you offer: a product, a service, a new organization, or a project proposal?
Project Description Provide a project description that clearly conveys the goals and primary idea of your project.	Description How will your project work towards your desired state or end goal? Finalize a project description that is rich in details, stating clearly the intentions, content, and innovative features. • If it is a business or product, show how it connects to a circular or solidarity economy. • If it is a system of governance, the Next System class is a helpful reference. •If it is an arts intervention or other creative project, show how it addresses different dimensions of the iceberg chart.
Project Tools & Tactics Your specific action idea. How will the project be carried out? What are you going to do?	Description Highlight the imaginative - but realistic and detailed -plans for pursuing your project. Who, what, when, where how. What, exactly, you are trying to change (Individual behavior? An industry? Culture or worldviews?) At what level will you be operating? Nano, micro, meso, or macro? Are you advocating for adaptive change or transformational change? Plot your project on the Reporting 3.0 Strategy Continuum (class 6 New Possibilities)
Project Benefits Explain how your project delivers benefits across many types of capital.	Description List the expected benefits, both qualitative and qualitative. Consider: • A change in physical capital (infrastructure) • New relationships (social capital) • Expanded capacities of individuals, teams, or institutions to innovate & conduct complex change (human capital) • Experience and formal lessons (intellectual capital) For more ideas, consider categories from the Common Good Matrix or Reporting 3.0.
Sustainability Impact Assessment Articulate how your chosen project delivers results across social, economic, and ecological systems.	Description Explain how your project enhances sustainability across social, ecological, and economic realms. How does it "multi-solve" to deliver several benefits at once? Work to discover unusual impacts as well as evident ones. "Climate: A New Story" is good at revealing linkages between systems.
Project Partners Who would be your key partners or collaborators? Identify potential change champions, along with their current capability to realize change, and tactics people are using now to mitigate relevant problems. The class on alliances may be helpful as a reference.	Description Identify groups, organizations, and individuals who could support your project. Review and make creative changes to your project that develop synergies between various sources of human capital. Will your project be established as a cooperative venture?
Project Evaluation Synthesize, review, and define your project.
Identify Potenital Barriers Write down known barriers to change. Consider constraints in terms of time, psychology, worldviews, money, infrastructure, etc.	Description What kinds of barriers may emerge? -political -physical -infrastructure -capital investment -psychological -natural/ecological -institutional rigidity, etc How can you work to reduce barriers for your selected project? The class on circular economies, new possibilities, and psychology may be helpful here.
Success Criteria The key indicators you will use to measure success (how you will measure "Project Benefits," above).	Description How will you know if you have succeeded? Consider your expected benefits ("Project Benefits," above). Get specific. How many people attend, participate, take action, etc.? Consult alternative wealth indicators (in the "Does growth = happiness?" class) or Reporting 3.0 for more ideas.
Communication Cycles How will you receive feedback about your effort? Feedback loops are especially important in adaptive management, agile development, and change innovation.	Description How will this project mimic an adaptive management technique or design thinking, where prototypes are developed and then feedback is received? (It's fine to imagine this occurring in the future.) What kind of adjustments or changes could you foresee? What are the biggest unknowns in your project? A high level of awareness of culture and context is given to the action plan.
Project Submission The quality of your submitted work. You may choose to submit a website, an app, a business or project proposal, a powerpoint, a piece of art, or a traditional paper. If you choose an art option, all of the background assessments and explanations provided in this rubric must be covered in some way (e.g., a short 2-3 page accompanying paper).
Written Components	Description Your project has strong communication in terms of organization, coverage of the topic, description of motivation/problem and approach/results. There are very few grammatical errors. References are exact with author, journal, volume number, page number, and year.
Project Visuals Use visual material to develop and explain your project	Description Use graphics & pictures appropriate to help expand and explain project specifics. Develop various types of graphics and text, each selected to convey project goals, intentions, and implementation ideas/prototypes.
Teamwork (if applicable) Team members work cooperatively participate equally.	Description All team members bring ideas, sketched or written, to meetings. Each team member takes on some portion of the needed research. Teams support and encourage innovative thinking in themselves and their group.

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