The Social Field

Lisa van Dongen

Welcome to a podcast from the heart of a social performance practice. Here we showcase the voices of practitioners as together we explore the different dimensions involved in working in the discipline. Designed for people from a range of sectors, this will appeal both to those directly involved in, and those accountable for, the work of stakeholder engagement, socio-economic development, and social risk and impact management. Tune in for season one and two (both six-part seasons).

  1. Ep 3 Characters/ Location: Defining a fuller appreciation of the system

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    Ep 3 Characters/ Location: Defining a fuller appreciation of the system

    Karien Lotter, a social scientist with experience in the work of land access, displacement and resettlement, shares with us the learnings from her studies in regenerative systems around the importance of adopting different perspectives as we seek to understand and then intervene into the range of systems at play influencing communities. Bongani Baloyi shares his experiences of how cross-continent knowledge exchanges can support shared learnings. Here the storytelling devices of ‘characters’ and ‘location’ underscore the importance of zooming our focus both in and out to different scales in order to help us make sense of the different elements of the system at play. If we do not do this, we risk creating large blind spots in our work.  Contact: To learn more about the work Karien is involved in, followher at https://www.linkedin.com/in/karien-lotter-804a011a/.You can also read more about her thinking at the Landscape Lens platform on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-landscape-lens/posts/?feedView=all. To learn more about Bongani’s work follow him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/bongani-baloyi-506402105or go to the MG5 Holdings website at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mg5-holdings-36257392.   Credits Presented by: Lisa van Dongen Co-producers: Mzamo Moloi and Lisa van Dongen Sound design and engineering: Audiodacious Special thanks to all contributors.

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    The Landscape Lens (Long-form episode)

    Karien Lotter, Andy Booth and Rob Gerrits participate in this long form and standalone podcast episode where they discuss the launch of the The Landscape Lens: a five-part conversation series exploring how transformative projects can move beyond managing impact to managing change. This looks beyond mitigation to actively engaging with inevitable landscape-level social, economic, governance, cultural and other changes. This episode explores the key themes from this series and discusses its reception and aspirations for the future. More on The Landscape Lens: Large-scale private sector energy and extractive projects don’t simply cause impacts - they reshape landscapes, livelihoods and institutions over generations. Yet our dominant management frameworks remain rooted in risk mitigation and compliance, designed for static contexts and short timelines. Each paper builds the argument step by step: from reframing the social dimension, to exposing why current methods fall short, to seeing systems and landscapes differently, and finally, to what it takes inside organisations to make this shift real. Read the Series: Paper 1 – Managing the Social Dimension of Large-Scale Transformative Projects https://lnkd.in/dFFujqnPPaper 2 – Why the Way We Work No Longer Works https://lnkd.in/dKwDXUb2Paper 3 – Seeing the System https://lnkd.in/d_9Gwn_6 Paper 4 – Seeing the Landscape https://lnkd.in/drvxuJ4c Paper 5 – Are Major Projects Ready for Systems-Based Thinking? https://lnkd.in/dZ2f-UCh #LandscapeLens hashtag #TransformativeProjects #SystemsThinking hashtag #SocialPerformance #RegenerativeDevelopment hashtag #ChangeManagement

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Welcome to a podcast from the heart of a social performance practice. Here we showcase the voices of practitioners as together we explore the different dimensions involved in working in the discipline. Designed for people from a range of sectors, this will appeal both to those directly involved in, and those accountable for, the work of stakeholder engagement, socio-economic development, and social risk and impact management. Tune in for season one and two (both six-part seasons).