Prof. André Francisco Pilon
Along his professional career, Andre Francisco Pilon held the following positions: Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo; Psychologist, State Court of Justice; Director, Health Education Department, Ministry of Health; journalist and editor, journal Academus. He is affiliated to the following entities: International Academy of Science, Health & Ecology; United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification; Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services; IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy; EuroScience; World Alliance for Citizen Participation; Int. Assoc. for the Study of the Commons; Water Supply and Sanitation Council, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature; Global Sustainable Futures. Sydney Environment Institute; Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum): NORRAG Network; Global Bildung Network. His ecosystem approach to communication, advocacy, public policies, research and teaching programs takes in account the general phenomenon, in view of the transformation of the dominant paradigms of development, growth, wealth, power and freedom embedded at political, economic, educational and cultural levels. Earth’s regeneration and mankind’s regeneration, as faces of the same coin, are addressed simultaneously, for their mutual support. Goals and new paths to reach them contemplates a set of values, norms and policies that prioritizes socio-ecological objectives, human well-being, natural and built environments, the aesthetic, ethical and cultural meaning of life, encompassing four dimensions of being-in-the-world (intimate, interactive, social and biophysical), as they combine, as donors and recipients, to induce the events (deficits/assets), cope with consequences (desired/undesired) and contribute for change (potential outputs).
Links to Public Profile and Selected Publications:
https://usp-br.academia.edu/Andr%C3%A9FranciscoPilon/CurriculumVitae
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andre-Pilon
https://doczz.net/doc/7798246/abridged-curriculum-vitae
https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:29602/datastreams/CONTENT/content
Prof. André Francisco Pilon
The initiative within the framework of knowledge transfer and cooperation between concerned people and institutions about many of the problems of difficult settlement in today’s world encompasses crucial questions regarding the Anthropocene and the present cultural, political, economic and environmental crises worldwide.
The focus should not be on the “bubbles” of the surface (problems on their own), but on the configurations deep inside the “boiling pot” where the problems emerge. Instead of dealing with the bubbles (segmented, reduced issues) and trying to solve isolated and localized problems without addressing the general phenomenon, problems should be defined and dealt with deep inside the “boiling pot”, encompassing the current “world-system” with its boundaries, structures, techno-economic paradigms, support groups, rules of legitimization, and coherence. In the socio-cultural learning niches, heuristic-hermeneutic experiences could generate awareness, interpretation and understanding beyond established stereotypes, from a thematic (“what” is at stake), an epistemic (“how” to understand and define the events) and a strategic (who, when, where) point of view.
Evaluation and planning, advocacy, communication, public policies, research and teaching programmes should combine all dimensions of being-in-the-world (intimate, interactive, social and biophysical), as they intertwine, as donors and recipients, to induce the events (deficits/assets), cope with consequences (desired/undesired) and contribute for change (potential outputs).
References:
PILON, A. F. (2024). The Bubbles or the Boiling Water? A Course on Environmental Capacity Building [ppt presentation] Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381996602_The_Bubbles_or_the_Boiling_Water_A_Course_on_Environmental_Capacity_Building
PILON, A. F., Reframing Relationships between Humans and the Earth: The "Anthropocene", a New Ideology to Justify the Status Quo? MPRA Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2023. https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/119041/1/MPRA_paper_119041.pdf
PILON, A. F. (2024). "The Party of the Dead": a Tale that Repeats Itself, MPRA Munich Personal RePEc Archive: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/121869/1/MPRA_paper_121869.pdf