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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Engaging New Narratives for a Transformed Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Marcelle Holdaway\n\n\nToday’s postnormal times marked by ‘complexity\, contradictions and chaos’ require wisdom to heal ourselves and the planet. There has long been various theories and practices applied to ‘expand’ consciousness to access wisdom\, and we draw upon one practice. This workshop creates the opportunity to experience tools that can provide a pathway to wisdom. Imagination is therefore engaged and alternative narratives are revealed through visual textual images that metaphors provide (creative transformation). Collaborative partnerships between participants holding various views or knowledges are applied in small groups where one person from each group role plays a different stakeholder (e.g. student\, university\, industry).
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/t-practice-workshop-engaging-new-narratives-for-a-transformed-future/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Co-Sensing and Co-Creating the Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Otto Scharmer \n  \nJoin us for a keynote session with Otto Scharmer\, renowned author and expert in the field of transformative change. In his presentation\, “Co-Sensing and Co-Creating the Future\,” Otto will guide us through an inspiring exploration of how we can collectively sense and shape the future we desire. \n  \nDrawing from his extensive research and practical experience\, Otto will delve into the principles of co-sensing and co-creating\, offering insights into how we can tap into our collective intelligence to address the complex challenges of our time. He will highlight the importance of deep listening\, empathetic understanding\, and systemic thinking in fostering transformative partnerships for a better world. \n  \nFollowing the keynote\, we will open the floor to a dynamic audience Q&A session\, where Otto will respond to thought-provoking questions suggested by attendees through our event app. This interactive format ensures that the discussion is grounded in the interests and concerns of our diverse community\, fostering meaningful dialogue and collective learning. \n  \nJoin us as we explore innovative approaches\, collaborative networks\, and capacity-building initiatives aimed at creating a sustainable\, regenerative\, and equitable world.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/keynote-2-otto-scharmer/
LOCATION:Sydney Plenary Theatre (Prague Hybrid Room 206)
CATEGORIES:Online,Prague,Sydney
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SUMMARY:Headliner: How do we mobilize knowledge and create agency/capacity for transformative partnerships
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Katy Roelich\, Zuzana Harmackova\n\n\nPublic sector decision making for sustainability transformations\nKaty RoelichThere is an emerging focus on how sustainability transformations might come about (Hajer et al.\, 2015; Willis\, 2020) but current research focuses on the role of civil society or businesses in developing alternative visions and business models. This overlooks the crucial role of public sector organisations making decisions about systems implicated in visions of transformative change\, such as transport and energy. This is problematic because current public sector decisions are constraining\, not enabling change (Rickards et al.\, 2014). The systems implicated in sustainability transformations are complex and characterised by feedback processes\, emergence\, lock-in effects and path dependence\, and change being non-linear and characterised by discontinuities\, ruptures and thresholds. It is not surprising that making decisions that drive sustainability transformations is difficult. Nevertheless\, the narrow perspectives of decision makers and the path dependence embedded in decision making processes exacerbate these difficulties (Marsden and Docherty\, 2021; Rickards et al.\, 2014). In this presentation I will focus on three challenges of decision making for sustainability transformations. Firstly\, the complex nature of the systems under examination\, which require decision makers to make sense of uncertainty and explore relations between a wide range of actors and drivers to address the boundary spanning nature of sustainability (Burch et al.\, 2019; Feola\, 2015; Patterson et al.\, 2017). Secondly\, public sector organisations have cultural and institutional context that can affect both the process and outcomes of decisions\, which should not be ignored when developing decision support tools or analysing decision making (Bonjean Stanton and Roelich\, 2021). Finally\, the outcomes and processes of system transformation are not neutral\, they are value-laden and political\, so decision making processes must be inclusive and explicitly address the politics of transformation. I will discuss each challenge and initiate a discussion on a future research agenda for decision making for sustainability transformations.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/headliner-how-do-we-mobilize-knowledge-and-create-agency-capacity-for-transformative-partnerships/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 206
CATEGORIES:Online,Prague
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SUMMARY:Poster Panel
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Zoë Deskin\, Blane Harvey\, Clara Mosso\, Morgane Batkai\, Julius Rathgens\n\nPresentations:\n\nCritical Food Systems Education in University Student-run Food Initiatives: Learning Dynamics\, Outcomes\, and Opportunities for Food Systems Transformation\nZoë Deskin\, Blane Harvey \nStudent-run Campus Food Systems Alternatives (CFSA) have been proposed as spaces which have the potential to advance Critical Food Systems Education (CFSE) – the objective of which is to motivate students to act toward radical food systems transformation on community and systemic scales. Evidence on how learning dynamics in CFSA drive student participants to develop transformative and critical perspectives on food systems is limited\, however. This poster presentation will detail our multi-case study of students’ learning experiences in four student-run CFSA on the McGill University campus\, to contribute to an understanding of how critical and transformative learning happens in these non-formal and student-run spaces. Our analysis of students’ described learning experiences in CFSA revealed three broad categories of learning dynamics which drive students’ learning about food systems and their willingness to act for food systems transformation: hands-on work in non-formal spaces\, social connection and engagement between student participants\, and engagement with the beyond-campus community. Engagement with the beyond-campus community via CFSA\, particularly that which involved exposure to food-related injustice in marginalized communities\, was found to be particularly important in driving student participants’ critical reflection on food systems and willingness to act toward transformative food justice and sovereignty. A lack of intentional critical reflective practice was however observed in CFSA\, calling into question how this practice can be driven in campus food initiatives without compromising their student-run and informal structures. This poster presentation seeks to illuminate the importance of campus-based and student-run movements in enacting wider community and systemic transformation\, and to identify opportunities for transformative and critical learning in non-formal student spaces. \nWildland-urban interface expansion: A global wicked problem.\nClara Mosso \nWildland-urban interface (WUI) expansion is a pressing phenomenon around the World due to its impacts on ecological processes\, wildfire risk\, natural resources management\, and social and demographic dynamics. Given its rapid evolution\, its uncertainty\, and the involvement of multiple stakeholders with conflicting values\, the expansion of the WUI is considered a wicked problem. Science can advance in the development of strategies to address this issue through transdisciplinary approaches that embrace complexity. Transdisciplinarity is easier said than done\, however\, and surrounded by challenges. The objectives of this study were: 1) to present the state of the art of WUI planning mechanisms and tools; 2) to identify the barriers and opportunities for the implementation of transdisciplinary approaches in WUI planning; and 3) to assess the feasibility of incorporating stakeholder-informed ecosystem services modelling in WUI planning as a strategy to promote transdisciplinarity and inform sustainable management approaches to WUI expansion. With the aim of comparing Southern and Northern hemisphere’s social-ecological systems affected by WUI expansion\, I used the province of Neuquén (Argentina) and the State of Colorado (US) as case studies. I conducted a normative and literature review for each site\, which was complemented with semi-structured interviews to key stakeholders. Then\, I evaluated the use of InVEST models in WUI planning based on the availability of spatial ecological information for both systems and current WUI-related policies. Results suggest that collaboration between stakeholders\, interjurisdictional coordination\, and financial support are deficient aspects in WUI planning in both social-ecological systems\, which results detrimental to the implementation of transdisciplinary approaches. On the other hand\, both systems have reflexive WUI policies\, which constitutes an opportunity for the introduction of transdisciplinary approaches\, including ecosystem services modelling. The results of this study can contribute to improving the design of science-based transdisciplinary approaches to address the pressing issue of WUI expansion. \nCatalyzing Transformations Towards Resilient Agriculture: A Case for Social Learning\nMorgane Batkai \nThe transformation towards resilient agriculture is essential for climate change adaptation and mitigation. However\, transformations are occurring slowly in small-scale agriculture while the global food system remains a significant contributor to climate change and is simultaneously vulnerable to its effects. Social learning – the co-production and exchange of knowledge within a group – is considered an essential mechanism for accelerating transformations by changing participants’ understanding about the issues at hand\, and ideally\, adopting new practices. This poster examines the connection between social learning and transformations in agricultural systems. While there are many positive assumptions about the role of social learning\, little is actually known about the factors driving social learning processes and how such processes between various stakeholders actually lead to transformative action in agricultural systems. We conducted a systematic literature review to develop an evidence base identifying the role of social learning in processes of agricultural transformations\, to identify drivers of social learning processes\, and to identify the outcomes of social learning. The study found that while almost all analyzed cases lead to participants’ changes in understanding about either climate-related issues or resilient agricultural practices\, little more than half of the studies noted the adoption of transformative actions on the short-term. Some of the key factors that influenced positive social learning outcomes included participatory on-farm demonstrations and addressing perceived risks from making on-farm changes. This literature review forms the basis for a conceptual framework that outlines factors that are more likely to lead to the adoption of transformative actions\, taking into account differences in socio-economic contexts of smallholder farmers globally. The results from the systematic literature review can be used to improve assessments\, and understandings\, of case studies that implement trans-disciplinary approaches such as transformative social learning processes as a solution to building resilience. \nIndividual Transformation: A Systematic Review of Sustainability in Psychology\nJulius Rathgens \nSustainability transformations require rapid and unprecedented change in technologies\, systems\, and policies. These transformation processes can happen in very different areas\, ranging from technical responses\, stocks and flows to changing values\, attitudes and societal paradigms. Individual behavior is an important lever in these transformation processes. Psychologists usually seek to understand\, experimentally test and evaluate how different types of interventions\, as well as how individual differences such as values or political orientation shape individual behavior and how behavior changes can be motivated. However\, psychological theories have rarely been applied to behavior change for sustainability or explicitly combined with research from sustainability science. We therefore review articles in psychological journals that address sustainability. In particular we assess how psychological research reported in prominent psychological and interdisciplinary journals has studied individual behavior change related to sustainability since the Brundtland Report in 1987. We are interested in how this research investigates topics from sustainability science. We focus on four aspects: (1) Types of behavior change (2) Types of interventions fostering sustainability transformations (3) Samples and places of studies and (4) Theories of change. We give an overview on how research from psychology has been tackling issues from sustainability science and what role theories and interventions from psychology could take to address the pressing needs to shift societies to more sustainable trajectories.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/poster-panel/
LOCATION:Online Room 2
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Empowering transformations through self
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Katie Ross\, Betty O’Neill\, Jane Slattery\n\n\n\nMany scholars\, cultures\, and spiritual leaders attribute the outwardly disparate challenges of our time to the seemingly ubiquitous and unconscious logic of separation. This paradigmatic logic or belief can permeate the ideas about who we are and how we should live and thus manifests in the actions and behaviours we take in life\, whether at home\, work\, or in our communities. \nThis belief can also manifest dissections within us as individuals. Outwardly\, our professional lives might be distinct and different from our personal beliefs. We may act with our heads\, when our hearts and intuition may be telling us otherwise. These dissections are reinforced by societal structures. Many scholars have critiqued how the academe values only the mental intellect\, and disregards or subjugates the deep intuitive wisdom within. Some transformative learning scholars refer to this deep intuitive wisdom as a soul knowing\, or a spirit knowing. To transcend this paradigmatic logic of separation\, this workshop will attempt to be an experience of reconnecting with our individual parts. To begin\, we will be getting out of our heads and back into our hearts. Through dialogue together\, we will attempt an experience of reconnecting heart\, soul\, spirit\, and physical bodies with the head. We will explore how judgments and conditions may influence the way you feel and how to clear these barriers\, blockages\, and undesirable feelings. Once in our hearts\, we can connect with\, and become more accepting of\, our intuitive abilities. The workshop will offer a safe space to be vulnerable and authentic\, both necessary for this self-work. \nWe agree with the many contributors at this conference who recognise that inner transformation is a necessary precursor or corollary for outer transformation\, and the dialogue we are offering is one thread to this diverse tapestry.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/renewing-our-relations/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Energy Systems Science and Practice for Transformation?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Curtis Ogden \nEverything is energy. Energy systems science uses the ancient observation that all living systems are “flow-networks” – organisms and super-organisms whose existence arises from and depends on the circulation of energy\, including resources\, money\, human capacities\, information and so on\, throughout the entirety of their being. \nGrowing numbers of people are aware of these energetic patterns and movements. What they may lack is a framework\, language\, and aligned practices to effectively engage the world within and around them. \nIn this session we will explore the core pillars of energy system science that can help social change agents\, artists\, healers and weavers of all kinds see and work with/in systems in ways that might support their regenerative and salutogenic potential.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/t-practice-workshop-energy-systems/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 206
CATEGORIES:Prague
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Making the transformative potential of street experiments visible.
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Jan Peter Glock\, Felix Beyers \nStreet experiments are an innovative way to transform urban transport systems. However\, the evaluation of such experiments often lacks the capacity to display the totality of their transformative potential. Evaluations are mostly carried out with narrow sets of output or outcome indicators\, limited to (mostly quantitative) traffic science data\, e.g. traffic volumes or numbers of accidents. What experiments contribute to greater transition impacts (longer-lasting effects e.g. legislation).
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/t-practice-workshop-making-the-transformative-potential-of-street-experiments-visible/
CATEGORIES:Prague
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Systems sensing in organizational complexity - Building capacities to relate to and learn from uncertainty
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Johann-Justus Wachs\, Luea Ritter \nPurpose-driven organizations find themselves in contexts of wicked complexity\, which entail significant ‘uncertainty\, dynamism\, pressures from multiple sources in different directions’ (Waddock et al.\, 2021\, p. 82). Definitions and perceptions of systemic problems and transformative solutions vary\, making effective collaboration difficult. This session introduces systems sensing (Ritter & Zamierowski\, 2021) as a navigational tool to engage this uncertainty and stay in relationship with the people and context. By using creative\, embodied and intuitive ways of knowing\, participants will practice learning from the ‘deeper wisdom of a system that is often hidden from view’ (Ritter & Zamierowski\, 2021\, p. 102). \n 
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/t-practice-workshop-systems-sensing-in-organizational-complexity-building-capacities-to-relate-to-and-learn-from-uncertainty/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 205
CATEGORIES:Prague
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SUMMARY:Deliberative visioning with arts-based methods for just transformation pathways
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Seona Candy\n\n\nIn July 2021\, the European Commission launched the ‘Fit for 55’ climate policy package\, designed to bring EU policies up to speed to achieve a 55% reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Recognising that these technical mitigation measures may have negative social impacts\, current and previous policy announcements have also included economic measures to support a ‘just transition’ and emphatic pledges to ‘leave no one behind‘. The formulation of ‘just transition’ for these measures is problematic and has been criticised as narrow in both focus and scope and severely limited in achieving the radical changes required by multiple crises facing society. In a recent position paper\, the European Climate Action Network (CAN) argue for comprehensive just transition plans developed inclusively with and for all stakeholders that form part of a long term vision supporting a just transformation of society (CAN\, 2021). In this session we will present key aspects of our deliberative visioning methodology currently being developed as part of the TANDEM project. It combines deliberative democracy principles with arts-based and foresight methods to enable citizens to imagine desirable futures\, contextualise the transition from the perspective of vulnerable groups\, and develop just transition pathways in their regions.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/deliberative-visioning-with-arts-based-methods-for-just-transformation-pathways/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Online Panel: Transformative Leadership & Inner Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Flávia Guerra\, Thieu Besselink\, Ethan Gordon\, Johanna Couvée\, Bouchra Lamsyeh \n\n\n\nPresentations:\n\nHow to assess and define enabling mindsets for sustainability transformations? Insights from the Transformative Urban Coalitions project\nFlávia GuerraThis presentation challenges the audience to find out what their climate mindset is through a BuzzFeed-type quiz. This user-friendly and fun quiz was designed based on the results of advanced statistical analysis of a annual survey applied in five Urban Labs in the context of the Transformative Urban Coalitions (TUC) project. By collecting extensive data from over 150 individuals from government\, academia\, civil society and the private sector\, including their emotions\, beliefs\, values\, worldviews\, perceptions\, attitudes and behaviors around climate change\, three ‘personas’ were identified: the skeptical activist\, the optimist technocrat and the bystander with mixed feelings. After the session participants receive their quiz results\, TUC’s analytical framework will be briefly presented and the defining characteristics of each persona further detailed to contextualize our transdisciplinary mindsets research within transformation theory and practice. Mimicking the TUC project’s co-creation approach\, this exercise is aimed at fostering active engagement of all session participants in assessing the transferability of TUC personas beyond our pilot cities in Argentina\, Brazil and Mexico\, and possibly even triggering mindset shifts. Another important goal is to stimulate a debate around what comprises enabling mindsets for transformations towards more just and zero-carbon cities as well as identify entry points and tools for mindset shifts in different political economy-ecology settings\, with particular emphasis on linking individual and collective action through knowledge & capacity sharing\, participatory governance and social innovation. The main takeaways and learnings from the discussion will be integrated in a peer-reviewed article currently being finalized\, thus making a key contribution to advance the conceptualization and operationalization of transformations towards sustainability in Latin America and beyond. \nRegenerative Regions Through Transformational Education in Place\nThieu Besselink \nIn search of a pedagogical approach that bridges academic education and  the regeneration of self\, society and place\, we started embedding education and action research in place\, taking the land and its communities\, economies\, and cultures as our curriculum. By engaging with the local environment\, students can develop a sense of place-based identity\, empathy for other beings\, and a deeper understanding of the social and ecological systems that sustain life. We will explore in what ways place plays a crucial role in transformative learning\, and how transformative learning is essential in the regeneration of place.\nSustainability education alone does not address important aspects of the systemic challenges that bioregions face\, nor does it help students navigate the complex and existential pressures of our time.  How can we form a transformative learning community that empowers students to not only learn about regenerative practices\, but also to address underlying patterns\, develop agency\, explore and transgress existing values and norms\, challenging existing structures\, and re-imagine our relationship with our selves and the natural world? \nMore-than-human partnerships for regenerative agricultural transformations\nEthan Gordon \nWhat capacities need to be cultivated for researchers and farmers to be ‘good partners’ with the more-than-human world? My research explores the different interpretations of regenerative agriculture and their subsequent implications for transformation. I found that the further regenerative farmers depart from mainstream agricultural values (particularly productivism)\, the more they start valuing more-than-human relationships. Farmers I interviewed stopped thinking of their animals as commodities and started seeing them as kin or partners in the management of ecosystems. Transitioning to regenerative agriculture\, these farmers also undertook a gendered shift by developing a feminine ethic of care that challenges hegemonic masculinity in agriculture (e.g.\, valuing bigness\, mechanization\, and domination). This transformation is evident in the behavior between farmers and their animals/plants/microbes/landscapes. Some regenerative farmers have animist spiritualities and work in partnership with nature spirits or subtle energies to regenerate the land. Relational worldviews have their roots in Indigenous knowledge systems all over the world. Regenerative agriculture has been critiqued by Indigenous people for repackaging Indigenous practices and isolating them from these worldviews. This is reflected in attempts to define regenerative agriculture within the scientific paradigm (considering only what is measurable\, e.g.\, practices and outcomes). This marginalizes the relational aspects of regenerative agriculture that are not quantifiable. If regenerative agriculture is to be transformative\, it must move beyond reductionist definitions that can exist only in Western frameworks. Relational values create the opportunity for transformative partnerships with the more-than-human. Researchers should not disregard the non-quantifiable aspects of regenerative agriculture but seriously consider their transformative potential. Perhaps\, as researchers\, it is time to acknowledge the legitimacy of ancient knowledge systems\, explore more-than-human participatory methodologies\, and in this process be open to our own radical transformation.How might a ‘narrative coalition’ respect the diverse interpretations of regenerative agriculture\, while also developing the unified power to deliver agricultural transformation? My research explores the different interpretations of regenerative agriculture and their subsequent implications for transformation. I found that there are at least nine ways of ‘storying’ regenerative agriculture – which I will share in this presentation. This means regenerative agriculture looks and sounds different in different contexts. However\, the groups behind each of these narratives share the same intention – regeneration. Either of land\, community\, or entire agricultural systems. Whilst regeneration is the single and shared intention behind these narratives\, there is not a single or shared way of doing regenerative agriculture. This makes sense because regenerative agriculture is not a defined lineage of farming practice. It is what it sounds like – the act of regenerating. Therefore\, groups from different agricultural lineages – e.g.\, permaculture or organics – are thinking about how to regenerate through their own lenses. This is how different narratives and practices emerge. If regenerative agriculture is to be transformative\, the ‘movement’ will need to foster translocal partnerships between these different interpretations\, from local place-based engagements to global networks. This means that regenerative agriculture can be a specific practice\, relevant to local conditions and cultures\, whilst retaining multi-interpretability at the global level. A ‘narrative coalition’ means that regenerative agriculture can continue speaking the language of different approaches\, whilst helping these groups commune around the shared intention to regenerate.\n’There’s Nothing Wrong with People (TiNWwP)\, but you cannot self-love your way out of systemic oppression’\nJohanna Couvée\, Bouchra Lamsyeh \n‘There’s Nothing Wrong with People\, but you cannot self-love your way out of systemic oppression’ is a cultural program composed of four chapters that looks at the intersection of mental health and social justice. While mainstream psychology too often individualizes and depoliticizes our mental health\, TiNWwP explores the ways in which the personal is political\, and the political is personal. It investigates the impact of patterns of oppression on our well-being through workshops\, performances and conversations. At the heart of each edition lie personal stories and healing practices of people who experience the consequences of systemic oppression\, to counter the increasing invisibility of marginalized voices. TiNWwP is conceived as a communal\, transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral space in which culture-workers\, artists\, therapists\, experiencers and audiences can unite around the urgent question: how do we create collective well-being? TiNWwP plants fertile seeds of awareness and exchange on these subjects through a mix of artistic practices\, personal stories and psycho-educational and body-centered techniques. Johanna Couvée and Bouchra Lamsyeh will discuss their approach to collective transformation through participatory action research. Johanna Couvée is a Brussels-based cultural manager\, consultant and artist coach hailing from the Netherlands with a background in Sociology and Psychology. She believes in the power of art for collective healing\, as a medium to change habits and attitudes\, and as a rich source of inspiration to work toward new social realities. She is also trained as a somatic psychologist and explores ways to build bridges between therapeutic\, embodied practices and collective action towards social justice. Bouchra Lamsyeh is a cultural doula and multidisciplinary artist. She studied international law and geopolitics in Paris\, and also works as a legal consultant. She has experience in a wide variety of activities and organizations that have a strong social impact through employing artistic practices in innovative ways.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/online-panel-transformative-leadership-2/
LOCATION:Online Room 2
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Practice session with TIPC's Pentagonal Map tool: System mapping through a transitions lens
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Victoria Shaw\, Paloma Bernal Hernández \nThis session will test the Pentagonal Map\, an introductory Miro tool that features in the Transformative Innovation Policy Resource Lab: https://tipresourcelab.net/ The tool provides a process for system mapping through a transitions lens to identify a dominant sociotechnical ‘regime’\, helping a group to consider the actors\, materials and rules operating within a system. It is open access and available at https://tipresourcelab.net/resource/pentagonal-map-for-system-analysis-group-version/ It is a useful precursor to the Multi-level theory of change tool in the Lab\, which helps users to think about their system regime in relation to landscape pressures and the emergence of niches (alternative practices).
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/practice-session-with-tipcs-pentagonal-map-tool-system-mapping-through-a-transitions-lens/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Guided Tour: Transformational Prague
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LOCATION:Foyer
CATEGORIES:Prague
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SUMMARY:Resilience Assessment as Transformative Practice: The Global Ecovillage Network
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Luea Ritter\, Allyson Quinlan\, Anna Kovasna\n\nResilience Assessment as Transformative Practice: Working across knowledge paradigms\, scales and geographies to nurture local resilience and transformative capacity\nAnna Kovasna\, Luea Ritter\, Allyson QuinlanA close look at a multi-year assessment process that is underway for the Global Ecovillage Network\, a multiscale place-based network of transformations initiatives.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/global-ecovillage-network-assessment/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 205
CATEGORIES:Online,Prague
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SUMMARY:Transformative Evaluation and Assessment
DESCRIPTION:The panel continues our consideration on how transformations practitioners design\, manage\, and facilitate transformations initiatives\, with a focus on highly engaged evaluation practices. Adam Hejnowicz will begin by exploring how evaluation must play a central role in driving and shaping transformative change\, and how urgent adjustments are needed for evaluation to become an integral part of transformational efforts. This is followed by Louis Klein and Karima Kadaui\, who will take a close look at a multi-year assessment process that is underway for the Tamkeen Community Foundation for Human Development in Morocco. Michael Quinn Patton will provide his reflections on the previous two presentations and facilitate a discussion with the panel\, integrating ideas from his work with Blue Marble Assessment\, developmental evaluation\, and utilization-focused evaluation. The remainder of the session will include panel discussion\, breakouts\, and harvesting collective ideas about moving forward.\n\n\nSpeakers: Adam Hejnowicz\, Karima Kadaoui\, Louis Klein\, Michael Quinn Patton\n\nPresentations:\n\nEvaluation for transformation: Pathways to mobilize transformational change for sustainable development\nAdam HejnowiczBusiness as usual is no longer a viable option. The climate and biodiversity crises are tangible and immanent and represent existential threats to current and future generations (IPBES\, 2019; IPCC 2021). While the CoVID-19 pandemic further illuminated the frailties and failures of the planetary system (Diffenbaugh et al.\, 2020)\, and the war in Ukraine has reignited geopolitical divides and exposed the fragilities of global energy and food supply chains (UN\, 2022). We must explore better alternatives and welcome new ways of addressing sustainable development challenges. Radical\, transformational change is needed based on new values and patterns of thinking\, experimenting\, learning\, and adapting – decoupling economic advancement from environmental degradation\, reducing social and gender inequalities\, and finding solutions that are more custom fit for a specific context (UN\, 2019).Transformational processes are important in the design\, implementation and evaluation of the sustainable development goal (SDG) (Sterner et al.\, 2019). Here\, scientist and practitioner communities spanning natural\, social\, and human sciences must work together\, and with policy actors\, to help develop the tractable solutions that our collective societies and ecosystems require. The intersection between evaluation and transformation\, though emergent\, has received insufficient attention. Here we argue that the field of evaluation can be – and even has to be – central to efforts to accelerate progress towards the transformational changes the world needs now. This places on evaluation specialists the responsibility to rethink how their praxis can be shaped to be of most value for this purpose (Ofir and Rugg\, 2021). We highlight the current role and contributions of evaluation practice in efforts to engineer or orchestrate desirable systems transformations\, exploring whether evaluation itself can be transformational\, before proposing how the field of evaluation may have to adjust with a sense of urgency to become an integral\, recognized part of such effortsTamkeen Community Foundation Systems Assessment\nKarima Kadaoui\, Louis KleinA close look at a multi-year assessment process that is underway for the Tamkeen Community Foundation for Human Development in Morocco.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/evaluation-for-transformation-pathways-to-mobilize-transformational-change-for-sustainable-development-tamkeen-community-foundation-systems-assessment/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 2
CATEGORIES:Online,Prague
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SUMMARY:Conversation Café 2
DESCRIPTION:Facilitator: Tica Lubin
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/conversation-cafe-2/
LOCATION:Online Room 2
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:World Café Day Two: Mobilizing Knowledge and Creating Capacity in Partnerships
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Felix Beyers\, Florian Markscheffel\, Taiwo Isaac Olatunji\, Marianne Grace Araneta\, Irmelin Gram-Hanssen\n\nPresentations\n\n\nPolitical Challenges of a Textile Transformation\nFelix Beyers\n\nCollaborative governance is a promising approach to address wicked sustainability challenges through global public and private partnerships between diverse actors of state\, market and civil society. The textile industry is an excellent example where a variety of such initiatives have evolved. The question arises whether collaborative governance actually leads to transformation\, also because the sector still faces various challenges such as the violation of workers’ rights\, or emissions from logistics that contribute significantly to climate change. In this dissertation\, I question whether and how collaborative governance in the textile sector provides space for\, or pathways to\, sustainability transformation. I use a mixed-methods approach towards transformative research. First\, I conduct a systematic literature review on governance partnerships before diving into a critical case study on an interactive collaborative governance initiative\, the German Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (hereafter: Textiles Partnership). In two empirical articles\, I explore learning spaces in the partnership and create a reflection space in which governance actors can navigate the complex governance landscape. I find that the partnership provides space for actors to negotiate their diverse interests\, values and worldviews\, which is a crucial contribution to social learning and interaction for transformation. However\, private governance structures and the unharmonized nature of initiatives hinder practical transformation. In line with scholars engaged in the discourse of structure versus agency\, I will discuss the role of the individual in collaborative governance for transformation.\n\nConstruction of anti-transformational narratives in organisations\nFlorian Markscheffel\n\nGerman administrations are often associated with stories of kafkaesque bureaucracy. Some could also be found in my case study\, in which i conducted 24 interviews in an german city administration. I used narrative interviews as a method to collect stories\, which allow conclusions to be drawn about the collective interpretations and culture in the organisation. The administration is in a change process\, reacting to internal and external pressure. They tried to implement different measures\, targeting personnel development and leadership\, but experienced strong resistance from some employees. I analyzed how this resistance is shaped by and grounded in organisational narratives. Drawing on the theoretical frame of social constructionism and structuration\, the study shows that the narratives are constantly re-produced through everyday action – narratives guide action\, but are not determinative. There are employees who experiment with alternative narratives\, form a vision and force transformation. But these niches are under constant pressure by the rules and structure of the established culture. The poster should shortly show the case study\, and then focuse on the described findings as a contribution to the understanding of the challenges which are faced by intentional transformation processes. To make a transformation successful and – this can’t be stressed enough – lasting\, the narratives of the respective field\, institution or organisation have to be acknowledged and adressed. The narratives have a strong path dependency\, and it appears that a lot of change processes end up as old wine in new bottles\, thus leading the intended transformation ad absurdum. The Multi-Level-Perspective as a popular framework contains traces of the narratives\, but it is argued that the framework is not sufficient. As a starting point for discussion\, I would like to propose the idea of a rhizomatic approach\, understanding narratives as a manifestation of an underlying informal and abstract structure.\n\nCreating transformation communities across cultures: Lessons from two intercultural studies\nTaiwo Isaac Olatunji\, Marianne Grace Araneta \nIntercultural contacts and interactions\, in the form of migration or virtual meetings\, offer unique opportunities that catalyse transformations. Exploring transformations in this context is especially important given the current phenomena of mass migration\, globalisation\, and digital expansion. This oral presentation describes two doctoral studies that share similarities apropos their focus on perspective transformation and intercultural settings. We will identify emerging findings and lessons from the studies and examine their implications for building “transformative people” in global or transnational settings. Taiwo\, a third-year PhD student\, is conducting research on how cross-cultural experiences result in perspective transformation among immigrants. Hinged on the transformative learning theory\, the study is a holistic multiple-case mixed-methods narrative inquiry that focuses on Nigerian immigrants in Italy and the United States. Ongoing analyses of the immigrants’ narratives and their responses to a questionnaire (Transformative Learning Survey) show that through the processes and outcomes of transformative learning\, immigrants not only experience individual change but also are equipped for social change. Marianne is a second-year PhD student doing research on the sustainability of technology-enhanced learning\, particularly virtual exchange. With activity theory as an analytical framework\, this embedded\, multiple-case mixed-methods study investigates the sustainability of two types of virtual exchange: dialogue-based and comparative. It will explore if and how they embody critical pedagogy and their potential for perspective transformation by engaging learners in multicultural interaction. Using the shared experience of two PhD students engaging in research on pedagogies grounded in perspective transformation and diversity\, this presentation will not only be a means to discuss methodologies and emerging findings from intercultural studies\, but also to share their personal perspectives as migrant researchers. Insights from the presentation will contribute to the development of transformation theory and practice in intercultural contexts. There will be a brief oral presentation before the discussion and interactive sessions. \nPotentiality and responsibility: tenets of a deep relational ontology and implications for transformations research and practice\nIrmelin Gram-Hanssen \nSocial-environmental problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss are increasingly being understood as relational problems: problems that arise through how interpersonal and human-nonhuman relations are performed and cared for. Within sustainability science and transformations research\, this has resulted in a growing interest in how relational theorizing and perspectives can inform the theory and practice of transformations toward sustainability. Yet how should we understand the nature of relations? The insights gained through taking a relational perspective will depend upon the ontology informing said perspective. In this presentation\, I engage with Indigenous and posthumanist thinking on relations and relationality\, arguing that these ontologies posit a deep relationality that not only allows for our inquiries to give ontological primacy to relations rather than entities but that also centers these inquires on the quality of relations. While distinct on several accounts\, I engage with both Indigenous and posthumanist scholarship to bring forth the sense of potentiality and responsibility inherent in a deep relationality – our potential to perform relations differently\, and our responsibility to do so. A deep relationality thereby has implications well beyond the theory of transformation and brings to the forefront the importance of how each of us engage with change and how we show up in collaborations with others.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/world-cafe-day-two-r2-mobilizing-knowledge-and-creating-capacity-in-partnerships/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 206
CATEGORIES:Prague
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SUMMARY:Developing Transformative Leadership Capacity
DESCRIPTION:Transformative educators and process facilitators reflect on their experience engaging in transformative leadership development and discuss how to cultivate and support effective and inclusive leadership of transformations initiatives. Table discussion will consider:\n\nHow do we cultivate and support effective\, inclusive\, and adaptive transformative leadership necessary for these types of organizations/initiatives?\nWhat are we doing right and what have we been getting wrong when it comes to leadership development?\n\n  \nSpeakers: Julianna Gwiszcz\, Douglas Williamson\, Fern Wickson\, Elisabeth Kuehn\, Luea Ritter \n  \nPresentations \nDeveloping Transformative Leadership Capacity\nSpeakers: Elisabeth Kuehn\, Douglas Williamson\, Julianna Gwiszcz \nInnovative leadership capacity builders and educators will reflect on their experience in transformative leadership development and discuss how to cultivate and support effective and inclusive leadership of transformations initiatives. \nWhat does it take as “process stewards” to co-hold space for complex\, inclusive and diverse endeavors?\nSpeakers: Luea Ritter \nThe WEFo is a global inquiry-based living lab for our common regenerative future. It’s a unique international platform that takes a multistakeholder\, cross-sector\, intergenerational\, and long-term approach to foster healthy relationships\, respect\, and inclusion of all voices and forms of life as a norm (ecocentric philosophy). It is based on the assumption that in order to do so\, it requires restoring and rewiring our social and relational fabrics and how we relate and interact with one another. The presentation shares some of the WEFo’s set of core practices\, principles\, and capacities that get fostered and tested in a wide range of areas and contexts to meet the complex challenges of the polycrisis we are in. It shares our experiences in co-holding a large group process over a longer period of time and the bigger questions we grapple with\, such as: What does it take as “process stewards” to co-hold space for complex\, inclusive and diverse endeavors? How do we continuously connect to ourselves\, each other\, the group\, the wider community\, nature\, and the subtle? How do we learn from and with each other across cultures and contexts in a way that helps address both our local as well as our global challenges? What does it mean to sit with questions that address the root causes rather than jumping too early to solutions or approaching challenges mainly with our cognitive capacities? The presentation explores the WEFo’s overall process design and work that enable collaborative actions on cross-sector and transdisciplinary themes and challenges (Ethical Ground Work\, Decolonisation\, DEI\, Reconciliation\, Stewardship of Bio Regions\, Intergenerational Dialogue\,\, Responsible Economy\, and more). After the presentation\, we will proceed into a generative dialogue to open up for resonances and a space of co-learning with participants about the important inner attitudes and co-creational leadership. \nWhat makes an organizational transformational: A panel discussion from global north and global south perspectives\nSpeakers: Elisabeth Kuehn\, Douglas Williamson \nThis panel dialogue will explore several key questions related to different perspectives on the process and methodologies that constitute a transformational organization. As transformation as a practice is still relatively new\, undefined\, and practiced in different ways depending on geographical and cultural contexts\, this discussion seeks to explore some of those differences\, as well as commonalities. The panel will consist of transformation practitioners from two global south countries and one global north country\, as well as be moderated by the Collective Leadership Institute\, a German transformation practitioner organization. The event is planned to be a hybrid event\, with the principal facilitator in Prague with members of a live audience\, and the secondary facilitator and panelists joining online and with an online audience too. The session facilitators are from the Collective Leadership Institute (CLI)\, a German transformation organization working at the international level. CLI teaches its own methodologies to empower transformation agents and is expert in guiding transformative processes within international development projects. CLI has approximately 6\,000 alumni\, around 300 of whom have gained a certification as “Collective Leadership Specialists”\, reflecting an intermediate level of knowledge and practice in applying CLI’s transformation methodologies. These Specialists are also CLI’s core network. CLI holds the Transformation Literacy Conference annually to explore topics related to the capacities and qualities needed to foster systemic transformation in sustainable development contexts. The panelists include: SA: Brazil: Finland: The outcomes of this session will initially be a short report\, highlighting the major insights and most relevant questions regarding the different regional perspectives of transformation practice. Depending on the insights and questions generated\, the organizers expect to explore more detailed investigation for the eventual publication of more detailed essays and short documentary videos.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/developing-transformative-leadership-capacity/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 205
CATEGORIES:Online,Prague
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SUMMARY:Transformative Learning in Practice
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Justus Wachs\, Uri Yitzchak Noy Meir\n\nPresencing Stories – Sensing into deeper forms of organizational collaboration\nJustus Wachs\, Uri Yitzchak Noy Meir \nMany organizations tackle systemic crises while remaining “under-resourced\, fragmented and marginal” (Waddock et al.\, 2022\, p. 78). To increase the organizations’ transformative agency\, Waddock et al. (2022) call for the establishment of ‘Transformation Systems’\, where actors recognize themselves as part of an interconnected whole and develop shared narratives and action agendas. Many of those working in organizations have experienced glimpses of such transformative collaborations. Following Scharmer’s suggestion to learn “from the future as it emerges” (Scharmer\, 2008\, p.7)\, this session will use storytelling and embodied methods to explore such instances where participants experienced the profound potential of organizational collaboration.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/transformative-learning-in-practice/
LOCATION:Online Room 2
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Harvesting and Networking
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URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/harvesting-and-networking-2/
LOCATION:Foyer
CATEGORIES:Prague
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SUMMARY:Online Panel: Transformative Learning & Paradigms
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Federico Robledo\, Thieu Besselink\, Lindsay K. Campbell\, Stefan Partelow \nPresentations \nCo-production of knowledge to facilitate access to climate information: the case of Argentina My Climate Risk Hub\nFederico Robledo \nScientific institutions have a strategic role in generating knowledge and capacities based on the definition of social and environmental public policies\, since they impact the daily life of the community and its territory. The comprehensive and regional approach plays an extremely important role in the search for resolution of these issues. However\, it is a challenge to generate climate information at a local scale with decision makers. The World Climate Research Programme lighthouse activity My Climate Risk (MCR) aims at developing and mainstreaming a bottom-up approach to regional and local climate risk to construct climate information that is fit for integration in decision making. MCR uses principally a case study approach and is organized in a non-hierarchical way in a network of communities of practice\, fostering dynamic\, exploratory and transdisciplinary environments. One year after the kick-off of MCR there are eleven formalized communities of practice or “Regional Hubs” around the world. These Hubs comprise a variety of forms and modes of operation depending on the local interests and needs. The MCR Argentina Regional Hub (https://sites.google.com/view/mcrhubconicet) is constituted by researchers\, university students and educators from different disciplines such as Anthropology\, Biology\, Climatology\, Engineering and Physics. The participants are involved in different research projects aimed at promoting co-production to address local socio-economic challenges. The Argentinean Hub focuses on local communities and the public sector. Some of our projects have already co-produced knowledge and co-designed climate services with users\, such as the development of a community rainfall monitoring network\, the co-design of a smartphone application and co-production of a week-2 rainfall probabilistic prediction tool for small farmers activities within the framework of the CLIMAX project. Another of our projects\, Anticipando la Crecida\, has generated maps of flood impacts in vulnerable neighborhoods from dialogue with the local community. \nTransformative learning and multi-stakeholder impact though bioregional regeneration\nThieu Besselink \nUsing the case of the RegioLab for the ecological infrastructure of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region\, we explore an approach to bioregional regeneration at the intersection between the city and surrounding rural polders. Part of the lab is a summer school of the Regenerative Regions Program (A collaboration of the Aliance between Utrecht University\, Wageningen University and Eindhoven Technical University) where students of multiple universities contribute to the process. In this interactive session we will share the lab approach and work with students and participants of the session on the essential questions of the regeneration process. Other topics are the role of education and transformative learning in processes of bioregion regeneration\, giving voice to the land\, and diversity in languages and scales.\nThe Regiolab works on an ecological corridor of about 6000 ha\, at more than 5 meter below sea level\, with many competing interests and governmental scales\, and an increasing pressure on the little available land. The RegioLab weaves together grassroots organisation\, national\, regional\, and local government\, nature and water management organisations\, academia\, artists\, and farmers to find regenerative practices at the various scales. \nStewardship Salons: Sharing artistic ways of knowing and biocultural approaches to transform urban natural resources management\nLindsay K. Campbell \nTransformation of urban natural resources management requires engagement with a diversity of worldviews and practices related to land and place. Yet\, currently a narrow set of discourses and practices informed by positivist science and legacies of colonial land relations tend to dominate the field. Further\, the natural resources sector lacks sufficient diversity in staff and volunteers. How can practitioners and researchers meaningfully connect with and be informed by different ways of seeing\, knowing\, and valuing the work of caring for urban ecosystems? Stewardship Salons are envisioned as non-hierarchical gatherings where everyone has the ability to be a teacher and a learner. This approach was first inspired by an exchange between NYC-based practitioners and Native Hawaiian educators and practitioners in 2017 (McMillen et al. 2020). Since then\, partners from US Forest Service and NYC Parks based at the NYC Urban Field Station have organized outdoor\, experiential salons that engage land managers\, artists\, educators\, researchers\, and practitioners in learning from place and each other (Campbell et al. 2021). Whether taking the form of a walk\, a talk\, or an embodied practice\, salons are co-created experiences rooted in dialogue and co-learning. This article draws upon participant observation and program evaluation data to share our salon approach. Salons have been led by Tribal members\, performance and visual artists\, community activists and stewards\, and different cultural and religious groups – all of whom are part of the social-ecological systems of NYC. We discuss the value of creating spaces for reflection\, professional development that fully engages personal lived experience\, and amplifying frequently untold narratives about urban ecosystems. We seek to further articulate and share artistic and embodied ways of knowing and biocultural stewardship practices that treat natural resources as cultural resources for pathways towards more inclusive approaches to the land rooted in reciprocity and care. \nA pluralistic ethical toolbox for sustainability science\nStefan Partelow \nSustainability science aims to co-produce knowledge together with society to guide intentional transformations. However\, there is a normative void in sustainability science. We argue that this void can best be navigated by a diverse ethical toolbox\, and the embedding of ethical principles into sustainability science processes. This is needed because the core tenets of sustainability science require addressing trade-offs at different stages of research and practice\, and the right decisions to make are often either unclear or context dependent. Key ethical concepts such consequentialism\, reason/deontological\, social contractualism and virtue ethics offer normative guides for navigating normative decision-making. A toolbox is needed\, because no single ethical concept is sufficient for all situations and all stages of sustainability science. Rather\, scholars and practitioners will be better equipped to deliver the ambitions of sustainability science when a knowledge base of ethical tools and the usefulness are available.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/online-panel-transformative-learning-knowledge-practices-2/
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Systems sensing for individual and collective transformation: building capacities to be with what is and foster partnership across sector and place
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Luea Ritter\, Nancy Zamierowski\, Johann-Justus Wachs\n\n\nWe offer systems sensing (Ritter & Zamierowski\, 2021) as a practice to foster transformative leadership culture and partnership across sectors and places. Systems sensing can be understood as including a visceral aptitude involving the felt senses\, intuition\, and emotions that draw on innate human capacities for being in relation with\, listening deeply to\, and momentarily embodying systems elements. The participatory inquiry-based practice widens ways we know and enhances and builds individual and collective capacities to become sensitive to underlying patterns\, acknowledge and be with what is\, and better relate to ourselves\, each other\, and the wider context we share.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/systems-sensing-for-individual-and-collective-transformation-building-capacities-to-be-with-what-is-and-foster-partnership-across-sector-and-place/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Online Panel: Transformative Innovations
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Luciano Villalba\, Ailén Acosta\, Velázquez Diego\, Marcelo Stipcich\, Simone Sandholz\, Nathalie Sänger\, Patrick Sanady\, Tania Vachon\, Christina Eisenbarth \n\nPresentations:\n\nTransformative innovation for climate adaptation in vulnerable neighbourhoods of Argentina\nLuciano Villalba\, Velázquez DiegoThe Sixth Assessment IPPC report states clearly that climate adaptation in vulnerable regions is a matter of action that requires urgent and just transformations. In Latin America\, vulnerability to climate change\, like wealth\, is unfairly distributed: those who contribute less to carbon emissions because they have very low or subsistence incomes\, live in poor housing conditions and lack access to public services and infrastructures.\nIn this context\, innovations that can contribute to solving more than one of these factors at once are especially relevant. However\, there are plenty of examples in which “good” ideas conceived by academic or institutional actors to be implemented by “vulnerable people” fail to succeed. Often\, this failure is related to the lack of participation of non-academic actors in the design process and to a misregard vis-à-vis non-academic knowledge.\nIn this oral presentation\, we discuss the results of a transdisciplinary project in which researchers and social organizations co-designed a panel based on recycled polystyrene foam (EPSr) to insulate houses in vulnerable neighbourhoods in the city of Tandil\, Argentina. We describe how the transdisciplinary alliance evolved and the role different actors assumed over time; how context influenced project dynamics and outcomes; the impact of the project on the houses where we installed the panels; the main challenges the team faced.\nIn conclusion\, we discuss to what extents transdisciplinarity projects like this can foster systemic change in the form of sustainability transformation and climate-resilient development\, keeping the protagonism of non-academic actors\, and what are the main barriers that would allow a wide-spreading of this kind of innovations. \nUrban sustainability transformation – What is it actually and how can you make it happen?\nSimone Sandholz\, Nathalie Sänger\, Patrick Sanady \nTransformation is increasingly seen as one – if not the only – path to sustainable and zero-carbon futures. The same is true for transformation of urban areas\, which are home to more than half of the world’s population. Due to unsustainable and excessive use of resources\, unplanned urbanization and other factors\, cities are a cause of climate change. At the same time cities are witnessing climate change and disaster impacts\, putting urban inhabitants at risk. Hence cities are part of the problem\, but at the same time they possess a huge potential to become vital parts and enablers of transformation processes. However\, literature remains largely theoretical and conceptual\, lacking actionable knowledge. Transformation literature is scattered and uses different frameworks\, or even refers to general transformation needs without the use of a definition or theory. So far\, there is no consensus at all around what such transformation actually should look like\, how it is defined\, implemented or evaluated. Based on a systematic literature survey on urban sustainability transformation this presentation therefore seeks to provide a comprehensive overview on the understanding(s) of transformation in urban contexts\, as well as related frameworks and theories. Transformation case studies from cities across the globe given in the publications are assessed regarding the sectors mentioned\, actors involved\, and actions taken. In addition\, key barriers and enablers of urban transformation are identified to allow for conclusions on how transformation can succeed. Thereby the presentation seeks to contribute to both advancing research as well as facilitating practical implementation of transformation. \nThe transformative power of art to inspire\, activate and sustain behaviour change \nTania Vachon \nResilient water\, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) systems must go beyond building or rehabilitating water infrastructure. Despite billions of dollars invested in WASH infrastructure\, ​one​​ in ​three​​ people globally lack access to safe water\, sanitation and hygiene services due to a continued failure to invest in the systems underpinning their service delivery​​.​1​ It is increasingly clear that sustainable change will only happen if user needs and desires are centered in the development of these systems. And what do humans do? They behave following rules dictated by societal and systemic norms and values. As such\, behavioural changes are needed to start and maintain WASH systems. Supporting local artists in communities plays an instrumental role in WASH system change. Through their deep connection to the local context\, through their imagination and creativity\, they generate a fun and enabling environment\, ​translating complex and often taboo issues ​in​to accessible formats that inspire\, activate and sustain change. They bridge the art with the non-art and\, by doing so\, become the mediators of individual and collective change. Projects implemented in the field give social artists a platform to drive collective intelligence: train\, explore\, elaborate\, innovate and share their experiences\, learnings and insights so that others can apply them and install an iterative process of innovation and knowledge. ​​​​​​This profoundly changes power relationships amongst actors of the development sector\, it contributes to reducing discrimination and stigma. We have data to demonstrate great results in Latin America (5 countries) as well as in health care centers in Burkina Faso and communities and schools in Mali. The results from those projects bring very interesting and challenging questions to the development sector overall by introducing decolonized methodologies that recognize the auto-determination of peoples\, the notion of endogenous individual choice and community-led evaluations. \nTransformative Innovation in Urban Climate Resilience: HydroSKIN Façade for Rainwater Retention and Evaporative Cooling\nChristina Sina Eisenbarth \nExtreme heat and heavy rainfall events affect urban architecture with considerable personal injuries and material damage on buildings and infrastructure. While social developments lead to increasing urban densification\, surface sealing\, and the construction of high-rise buildings\, the effects of climate change urgently require the creation of more infiltration and buffer surfaces. Building envelopes cover a considerable part of the urban exterior surfaces\, and therefore have a significant leverage effect on the climate resilience and sustainability of buildings and cities. HydroSKIN represents a revolutionary façade element for rainwater retention and evaporative cooling. The lightweight textile skin collects the wind-driven rainwater hitting the building façade. Use of the harvested rainwater inside the building e.g.\, for toilet flushing and plant irrigation aims to a reduction of fresh water and energy consumption. In heat periods water is released by HydroSKIN to cool the interior and exterior environment by evaporation. The aim is a drastic reduction of urban inundation and heat risks by relieving the sewage infrastructure and providing natural microclimate regulation with a minimal amount of embedded mass\, energy\, and CO2 emissions. Due to its lightweight system design\, the façade add-on element is suitable for both new and existing building façades. The core element of HydroSKIN is a so-called spacer fabric\, which consists of two textile layers that are kept apart by threads and so are well ventilated. The high rate of air circulation facilitates the evaporation of water and enhances the cooling effect of the facade. On the outside\, the spacer fabric is covered by a water-permeable textile layer\, which allows almost all raindrops to penetrate and at the same time protects the fabric from impurities. A film on the inside drains the water into the lower thread system.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/online-panel-transformative-innovations/
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Activating Collective Potentials
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Pendle\n\n\nOtto Scharmer (2023) observes activating collective capacities towards systemic sustainability\, is a primary deficit in many attempts at complex systemic transformations. Scharmer advocates awareness based systems change. Thus this highly interactive experiential workshop aims to offer a promising socio-cultural practice\, in redirecting collective attention towards the spaces where these mostly dormant\, shared potentials might lie. This art and practice can awaken souls or selves to the larger field in which they are embedded. Which may have the consequent effect of unifying diverse actors\, of building coalitions of meaning\, empowering future changemakers\, whilst evoking new ecologies of being knowing and doing.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/t-practice-workshop-activating-collective-potentials/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Toolkit for successful Positive Deviance / Solarpunk protocols in development
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Bobby Fishkin\, Saskia Verraes\, Mark Smith \nHow do we know what we hope for is possible? How do we build a community that can work backward from the most inspirational examples that could possibly be drawn upon?  There are many degrees of positive deviance. Our narrative of the Great Library of Positive Deviance is that we can look at the collective experience to push the limits of what we realistically hope for and work backward from through curating positive deviance. Please join us for an exploration into the future we know is possible. Positive deviance can occur at the personal scale\, at the family scale\, at the neighborhood scale\, at the social innovation scale\, at the scale of a city or a bio-region. Positive deviance can occur in any sector and deviance can be positive for any of a diverse number of reasons. Do you have examples that have shaped your systems change journey and that the world should learn from? Help us approach positive deviance as a protocol to profoundly improve “solar punk” feasibility to help us reach such a bright future. Collaborate to help us apply positive deviance to universal design challenges for systems change. How might we co-create the Great Library of Positive Deviance together and evolve this concept together?
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/toolkit-for-successful-positive-deviance-solarpunk-protocols-in-development/
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Meditation 2: Compassion for oneself\, others and the world
DESCRIPTION:Facilitators: Pål Dobrin\, Therese Asplund\n\n\nThis session is designed as a meditative practice and sharing of experiences among the online community at the Transformations Conference 2023. Based on the Buddhist tradition of the Four Immeasurables – loving-kindness (friendliness)\, compassion (willing to cease suffering)\, appreciative joy (feeling happy for others)\, and equanimity (calm based on wisdom) (Sujiva\, 2003)\, this meditation session will guide the participants on a journey into the heart. The heart has to have its place\, and be heard. We have ignored it much too often\, notably as current approach to realizing climate and sustainability targets has been predominantly techno-economic informed by rational choice models of decision-making (O’Brien\, 2018). In addition\, feelings of stress\, anxiety and pain is often associated with the threats climate change poses. This meditation guides our focus to the subtle awareness within\, to self-love\, to wishing happiness to others and non-human life forms on Earth. It offers kindness\, humility and feelings of interconnectedness. At the end of the session\, we jointly explore engagement when coming from a place of compassion\, kindness and altruism rather than stress\, anxiety and pain. The presentation is part of a transdisciplinary and collaborative research project between partners Empaticus – an organization with long experience of widom traditions\, contemplative practices and inner transformation and Department of Thematic Studies – unit of Environmental Change\, Center for Climate Policy Research at Linköping University with expertise in the intersection between sustainability transformations\, sense-making\, and communication. In particular\, the project 1) develops a conceptual model for inner transformation processes\, 2) empirically investigates experiences of personal transformative change\, 3) simultaneously engage in partnership for personal sustainability transformations. The presentation is supported by the Swedish Research Council FORMAS under Grant No. 2021 -01254.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/meditation-2-compassion-for-oneself-others-and-the-world/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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