It has been a challenging year for Nova Scotians 鈥� not only given the global pandemic, but also Canada鈥檚 largest mass murder in April and the continuing imperative to attend to the crises of racism and colonialism.
In response, Dalhousie鈥檚 Faculty of Management has brought together academic experts from across the province and paired them with thoughtful and influential community members. Their goal: explore what a reimagined future for Nova Scotia could look like 鈥斅爃ow Nova Scotians embrace new ways of looking at collective challenges and collective responsibilities coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rolling out this fall, Reimagine NS focuses on five key aspects of Nova Scotians鈥� daily lives. For each aspect, a research and practice team drew on the talents of members of Nova Scotia鈥檚 business, government and non-profit communities. Project members sought to engage in constructive dialogue with each other and discuss what Nova Scotians want their future to look like.
Learn more: dal.ca/reimagineNS
鈥淣ova Scotia is a close-knit community of people,鈥� says Kim Brooks, dean of the Faculty of Management. 鈥淲e engage in remarkably similar activities and we care about each other鈥檚 well-being; whether social, political, health, environmental or ecological.鈥澛犅� 聽
Collaboration and connection
Each team鈥檚 report positions their recommendations to public, not-for-profit, and private sector actors and institutions within its Nova Scotia context. In each case, teams were attentive to the role of technology, innovation, inclusion, community and connection, as well as ways that this work builds on the recommendations in the Now or Never 鈥淚vany鈥� report.
鈥淯nlike other recovery models that focus on the way industries engage with economies, and which might be generalizable across jurisdictions, the teams鈥� approaches to a reimagined Nova Scotia centres around the human experience and what makes Nova Scotians unique,鈥� says Lori Turnbull, director of the School of Public Administration. 鈥淲e hope this approach makes the reports accessible for Nova Scotians who are hungry to see us take advantage of the lessons learned in this era and move forward together.鈥�
Each report will be accompanied with a free, open-to-the-public virtual panel event, the first of which is scheduled for .
Each week on Dal News, ahead of each event, we鈥檒l be posting insights on each report directly from their authors.The list below will be updated to share each profile as they are published.
- Read our story on the Care and Connect report here.
- Read our story on the Support and Protect report here.
- Read our story on the Learn and Work report here.
- Read our story on the Cultivate and Consume report here.
- Read our story on the Create and Commemorate report here.
Learn more about the project and sign up for the panel events at dal.ca/reimagineNS