UK STUDENT SUMMIT 2010
FaithHub 2010
Working title: ‘The Home We Build Together’: Faith, Identity & Community in a Global Age.
THE BIG IDEA
We hope to convene a national student summit ‘FaithHub’ to take place in London on the key issues facing student leadership in 2011. Our aim is to bring students of faith and of no faith together, in new and unexpected project collaborations around themes of Faith, Identity and Community in a global age.
The summit would be inspired by the Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks’ book ‘The Home We Build Together’ (2007) in which he calls for a new approach to national identity after multiculturalism, and by the international movement known as The Hub: an international social enterprise which builds places for ‘meeting, working, learning, innovating and connecting dedicated to inspiring and supporting enterprising and imaginative initiatives’.
Spread across four continents, and twelve cities, the Hubs are places that borrow from the best of a member's club, an innovation agency, a serviced office and a think-tank to create a very different kind of innovation environment.
Following discussions with the Chief Rabbi and meetings with key ministers in the Department for Communities and Local Government and with the office of the Mayor of London, we are undertaking a feasibility study to determine the scope, venue and format of this event. We intend to meet with other faith community leaders in the development of this initiative.
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
Our aim is to raise funds to rent and outfit a building in inner London, transforming it into an ‘Interfaith Hub’ for the duration of the Summit, in the spirit of the excerpt above.
Students accepted to FaithHub would work in a creative, dynamic, 24/7 environment, which would promote unexpected opportunities for collaboration and interdisciplinary projects between participants in areas from film, art and performance to education, business and new media.
We hope to provide a fun, imaginative and immersive learning environment where participants are encouraged to directly involve themselves in the experience.
To be truly effective as an educational experience for participants, FaithHub will employ the whole learning wheel, from goal setting, to experimenting and observing, to reviewing, and finally action planning. This complete process will allow participants to learn new skills, new attitudes or even entirely new ways of thinking about themes of Faith, Identity and Community.
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