Loading...
- Margaret Mead
By the end of the journey, participants will have created new collaborative initiatives that help to bring about more sustainable and equitable social systems around the globe.
Last years cohort was made up of 262 teams and included participants from 61 countries and 449 cities and towns.
The video below is a compilation of some of u-lab 2022's application videos:
This content is blocked as no cookie consent for 3rd party cookies has been given.
Almost anyone working to bring about change in their current situation would agree: operating from our existing assumptions is not producing the results that we know are needed in these times.
Our current reality highlights a need for us to transcend our blindspots and find new ways of learning, working, and innovating as teams, organizations, and communities.
Are you and your team holding a transformational project or prototype idea? Are you wanting to:
If this strikes a chord, then you are in the right place, at the right time: apply to u-lab 2x today.
This content is blocked as no cookie consent for 3rd party cookies has been given.
u-lab 1x was launched in 2015 as a new massive open online course designed to democratize access to the tools and methods of systems change. It has brought teachings, frameworks, and practices to over 180,000 unique learners around the world. In its first year, over 30,000 participants flocked into u-lab 1x to learn how to apply these transformative practices to their businesses, local communities, and in their personal lives.
Each u-lab 1x cohort resulted in an explosion of energy, ideas, new connections, and a sense of real possibility for transforming business, society, and self. However, there wasn’t yet a dedicated journey for continuing to nurture the emerging ideas, connections, and insights generated by u-lab 1x.
With so much potential being born, what infrastructure and process could be provided to help these teams and their powerful ideas reach their full capacity for driving change?
Sensing into what was needed next, clarity emerged for a new kind of innovation journey and prototype accelerator: u-lab 2x.
Now about to begin it's fourth cohort, u-lab 2x
So far, u-lab 2x has facilitated 790 team journeys. Last year alone, 2x teams stretched across 449 cities. A diverse range of projects and prototypes have gone through the process.
Right now, teams are gathering and clarifying their applications as we prepare to embark as the 2023 cohort.
The u-school focuses its work toward the transformation of economy and society around eight key acupuncture points (or leverage areas). Through rapid-cycle prototyping and co-evolving solutions that work at scale, the u-school aims to amplify the transformation of civil society globally.
u-lab 2x convenes both place-based teams and teams collaborating online from around the world that are working toward solutions in one of these eight areas. As a three-month, multi-local, online and offline innovation journey - u-lab 2x will help these teams:
Read more about the eligibility criteria, benefits of participation, and time commitment below. If you’re interested, apply to join by sending us a short video and filling out an application that tells us more about your team and why you want to join the Lab.
If you don't yet have a team, or even a project idea, this year we have launched a new "team finder" tool to help you list an idea you might have for a team, or explore other groups who are also seeking members. Click the button below to check out the team finder.
In the video below Florentina Bajraktari and Otto Scharmer answer a few frequently asked questions about forming a team, choosing a topic or project, and preparing for u-lab 2x.
This content is blocked as no cookie consent for 3rd party cookies has been given.
