I have gathered here a selection of resources that are outputs of some of the projects, publications, speeches, workshops etc. I have worked on in the past years. These are mostly in English, sometimes in Dutch and Latvian. Some of them, unfortunately, do not have publicly available outputs, but I’ve given a small description. If you’re interested in finding out more, please don’t hesitate to contact me
Shifting mindsets around climate emergency and other complex topics, and working towards a better planet for everyone
This is the work we’re currently doing at Mindworks Lab - a cognitive and social science lab, empowered and hosted by Greenpeace East Asia. I have mostly co-authored or supported the creation of these resources, some of them are the fruits of the amazing work of my friends and colleagues. If you’re interested in collaborating or finding out more, please do reach out, or sign up for our newsletter (on the website).
Publications and presentations
The Disupted Mind Series - departing from the premise that our futures are ripe with disasters and co-occuring crises, what do we know about how our individual and collective minds work during crises and how can that knwledge help us to communicate better to accelerate positive cultural/ mindset change, community orientation, and altruism, instead of polarization and unrest.
Pride and Purpose: Empowering Communities in Disasters
The Inconvenient Mind, Part 1 - what psychology, as well as social and neuro sciences can teach us about the way people engage (or not) with climate crisis. And The Inconvenient Mind, Part 2 - putting forward a series of recommmendations for campaigners, civil society organizations, movements and anyone else working on the topic on what to focus on.
Shifting Emotions about the Climate Crisis, or as we call it - the “Emotions’ Tool”. An overview on how to think about the relationship between (a group of) humans and the climate emergency in terms of their emotions about the topic. And a practical set of suggestions on how to create engagement and communication strategies.
Workshops, courses and interactive sessions
“Crisis is the new normal” - an experience-based learning session designed for and facilitated at [Cesis Pluriversity] Summer School, in Rucka, August, 2021. We explored two questions:
- How do crises shape individual and public opinions?
- What should we learn about ourselves so that we could be together in crises with others?
“Campaigning for mindset change on climate” - a week long immersive workshop designed using Theory U principles, combining reflective, experiential learning with a campaign accelereator. Run for teams of climate campaigners from various Greenpeace offices and allies, in Berlin and Nairobi, 2019.
Panel discussion: The melting of icebergs - true or false? LAMPA, Conversation Festival, Cēsis, Latvia, July, 2019. (In Latvian, available as a podcast aon Spotify).
Placemaking, community learning, and all things places
Watch my Pecha Kucha video on paradoxes of placemaking and how we can approach them when designing public spaces or any “placial” developments and interventions. Placemaking Week 2017
Vietas tāpatība - online saruna ar dzejnieku Raimondu Ķirķi par vietām, to patību, un mūs pašiem vietās un vietām mūsos. Cēsu pluriversitātes projekta ietvaros.
Rozentale, I., de Jong V. & Ķīnasts, J. (2015). A placemaking approach to creative clusters: Towards a practical framework for strategizing and conceptualization. A conference paper from Cultural quarters and clusters: developing a global perspective, University of Angers and Creative Regions Network.
Rozentale, I., & Tomsons, T. (2014). A post-socialist transformation: from a factory to a creative quarter, A chapter in Creative districts around the world: celebrating the 500th anniversary of Bairro Alto, 99-103.
Creative industries and business models
Publications and presentations
Rozentale, I., & van Baalen, P. J. (2021). Crafting business models for conflicting goals: Lessons from creative service firms. Long Range Planning, 102092.
(Forthcoming). Take a glimpse at my PhD thesis on managing paradoxical goals through business models Work still in progress.
Deichmann, D., Rozentale, I. & Baarnhoorn, R. (2017). Open innovation generates great ideas, so why aren’t companies adopting them? Harvard Business Review.
Rozentale, I. (2019). “Niet of maar en”. DUDE, 2, (4). (Magazine of the Dutch Designers Association), December, 54-57. (From Dutch: “Not or but and”.).
Rozentale, I. (2018, March). Presentation: Are creative and economic orientations mutually exclusive in creative industries? Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam.
Rozentale, I. (2017, 12 October). Dealing with a paradox. DUDE, 2, (4). (Magazine of the Dutch Designers Association), December, 54-57.
Rozentale, I. (2015, October). (New?) Business Models for Cross-overs? Speech during DRIVE, Design Research and Innovation Festival, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Rozentale, I. (2014). [Creative industries during economic recession: the case of Riga.] Regional Studies, Regional Science, 1(1), 329-335.
Rozentale, I., & Lavanga, M. (2014). The “universal” characteristics of creative industries revisited: The case of Riga. City, Culture and Society.
Workshops, courses and interactive sessions
Rozentale, I. & Deichmann, D. (2017, 25 October). Discussion session organization and presentation of research results: Successfully implementing your crossover projects. DRIVE, Design Research and Innovation Festival, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.