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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Exploring transformative learning: Drawing on the expertise and lived experiences of the transformation community
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Filia Garivaldis\, Annette Bos \nAha learning moments\, or Eureka moments\, are defined as moments of sudden understanding\, when learners begin to see connections that they were previously oblivious to (Pilcher\, 2016). Associated with these moments are feelings of excitement\, deeper understanding\, realisation\, and a change in perspective (Pilcher\, 2016). These moments have been recognised by educators as powerful opportunities for learning. Transformative learning involves perspective transformation\, the evolution of a learner’s understanding of the world\, the reformulation of experience\, and the adoption of new ways of behaving–the ultimate outcome of a good education (Nichols\, Choudhary\, & Standring\, 2020). Learners of sustainable development\, in particular\, are required to achieve these outcomes whilst simultaneously navigating conditions of complexity and ambiguity\, and to seek innovative solutions to contemporary problems amidst complex systems. To gain a transdisciplinary understanding of transformative learning\, we take this opportunity to engage with scholars\, practitioners and artists in dialogue. In this session\, we adopt an integrated methodology of expert elicitation and phenomenological reflection to draw on the lived experiences of the transformation community (aligning with transformative innovation – conference theme1) about how to evaluate and assess (conference theme2) current conceptualisations of transformative learning (and knowledge practices – conference theme3).
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/exploring-transformative-learning-drawing-on-the-expertise-and-lived-experiences-of-the-transformation-community/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Headliner: Transformative Partnerships: What is Missing for Systems Change?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Diana Lopez and Arwen Bailey\, Fern Wickson\, Carlos Álvarez Pereira\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCGIAR Community of Practice on Gender-Transformative Research Methodologies: Combining Feminist Approaches with CoP Praxis to Foster Transformation\nDiana Erika Lopez Ramirez\, Arwen BaileyAdopting a gender-transformative agenda that embraces a feminist ethos can be challenging in certain organizational cultures\, especially those whose primary focus is not necessarily the attainment of gender equality. We reflect on the development of a Community of Practice for Gender-Transformative Research Methodologies (GTRM-CoP) within CGIAR\, an influential agricultural research-for-development organization. Gender (and those ‘doing gender’) in CGIAR were not originally core to the work and mandate of the organization. Therefore\, the recent identification of gender and social inclusion as a key impact area in CGIAR biophysical work is a challenge. While awareness of the complex intersections between gender and agrifood systems has risen\, budgets and capacity have not kept pace with the new needs. Gender researchers often work in isolation\, lack recognition and struggle to mainstream their insights into the core workings of CGIAR. Taking a social learning ‘design turn’ can provide a space for transformative\, feminist ‘reflecting and doing’ and for building commitment and capacity for gender-transformative research. We introduce CoPs as spaces for social learning that strengthen individual and collective empowerment. This is followed by an overview of attempts to mainstream gender in CGIAR\, to contextualize the case study and locate it within efforts to advance a gender-transformative agenda in the organization. The ‘reflecting and doing’ process of the GTRM-CoP is examined according to a set of design considerations adopted as part of a social learning praxis to create the conditions for action-oriented learning. This process is informed by feminist thinking and critical insights generated from recent debates about the role of the researcher vis-à-vis neo-colonialism. We conclude with critical reflections about limitations and ambitions of the GTRM-CoP\, and its potential for fostering broader gender transformations. \nDo you want to dannelse? Transforming higher education programs for sustainability competences\nFern Wickson \nSustainability transformations require not just new knowledge\, but new ways of being\, relating to\, and acting in the world. This creates exciting new challenges and opportunities for Higher Education. Universities have traditionally approached education with a focus on the transmission of information and the building of capacities to create new knowledge. In recent years\, they have also begun placing weight on developing “21st century skills”\, including communication\, collaboration\, and digital literacy. However\, current frameworks defining competences needed to advance sustainability (e.g.\, Bianchi et al. 2022; Redman & Wiek 2021; Jordan et al. 2021; UNESCO 2017) are increasingly emphasising factors that go beyond knowledge and inter-personal skills to include intra-personal competences such as self-awareness\, self-reflection\, and the cultivation of values that support sustainability transitions\, such as empathy\, equity\, appreciation and perseverance. This extended breadth of sustainability competences requires moving beyond what\, in Norwegian\, is referred to as utdannelse (education)\, to also working with dannelse (directly translated as formation\, but also meaning personal and cultural growth and maturation). Many higher education institutes and programs are already struggling to cross the traditional disciplinary silos and offer the kind of systems thinking and integrative problem solving that sustainability competences require. Therefore\, moving through and beyond this to also incorporate work on sustainability values and attitudes\, together with abilities for self-reflection and self-regulation\, can feel like difficult moves to perform indeed. In this presentation\, I will share my experience trying to choreograph the teaching of transformative sustainability competences in higher education through a new international executive-level master’s program in Ocean Leadership. I will share early insights from working on this transdisciplinary program for marine and maritime professionals and invite the audience to share their own experiences dancing with both utdannelse and dannelse in higher education.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/headliner-transformative-partnerships-what-is-missing-for-systems-change/
CATEGORIES:Online,Prague
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Showing Up for Ourselves and this World in Service: Embodiment Practices in Vulnerability for Societal Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Anaïs Sägesser\, Naveen Shamsudhin \nSocietal transformation is a complex process that involves personal transformation\, social equity\, and systemic change. Central to this process is the recognition and acceptance of vulnerability – a ubiquitous aspect of living beings and ecosystems. In this workshop\, we aim to explore how the cultivation of safe spaces can facilitate the embrace of vulnerability and trust. Embodied practices will be utilized to investigate the interplay between vulnerability and trust at the individual and systemic levels. We will also examine gentle next steps towards the healthy expression of interdependence.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/showing-up-for-ourselves-and-this-world-in-service-embodiment-practices-in-vulnerability-for-societal-transformation/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:World Café Day Three Morning (R1)
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: António Ferreira\, Jonathan Morris\, Ine Dorresteijn\, Tadeáš Žďárský\n\n\nPresentations:\n\nChildren’s right to the city: Challenging technological\, institutional and mental infrastructures\nAntónio Ferreira\n\nIt is widely accepted today that societies should be child friendly. It is also widely accepted that mobility plays a key role in determining how children\, and people in general\, perceive and inhabit the world around them. This means that a key component of child-friendly societies is necessarily concerned with children´s mobility patterns. However\, and despite the differences experienced across distinct geographical areas and social groups\, car-based mobility has become dominant. As a result\, children have lost much of their physical and political autonomy in contemporary urban public spaces. This perverse situation is a partial result of a poorly conceived\, yet widely adopted\, technocratic conception of risk that unequivocally serves the interests of the automotive industry and the technological innovators that keep such industry flourishing against all odds. This conceptualization entails that risk can be objectively measured and that children should be surveilled\, controlled\, and protected from harm in the ways ‘scientifically’ determined by technical experts. In practice\, this forces children to remain confined to protective bubbles that alienate them from urban public spaces and – in the long run – induces them to reproduce the automobilities that shaped their formative years. Challenging this situation requires a deep revision of the disabling technological\, institutional\, and mental infrastructures that have become dominant in contemporary societies. Techno-centric decision-making processes conducted by adult-experts aimed at promoting numbing safety\, efficiency and optimized mobilities could therefore be replaced by participative processes where adults and children\, public authorities and schools\, technological innovators and educators work together in transformative contexts that empower both adults and children as embodied political beings. While acknowledging that much depends on non-democratic choices made in macro-level political economy settings\, this presentation concludes with an empirically informed discussion about the mental infrastructures that hold back this much-needed transformation.Well-Being and Sustainability Transformations: What to Measure?\nJonathan MorrisThe premise of economic growth is to provide means to contribute to improved quality of life. However\, the pursuit of economic growth has come at a cost of environmental challenges\, resource depletion and societal challenges\, while also deliver benefits in an unequal manner. Delivering economic progress that is environmentally sustainable and societally just requires changing the primary focus on growing the economy\, and instead to consider more holistic measures of societal\, environmental and economic well-being. Expanding beyond a narrow focus on GDP and income measures has led to the development of numerous indicators as well as global goals and targets\, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However\, there lacks a suitable set of indicators which can measure the transformation and progress towards a well-being oriented economy. Drawing on measures and indicators created to measure quality of life in the European Union\, and progress against Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-Being). The European Union’s Statistical Authority (EUROSTAT) publishes data covering the cross-cutting theme of quality of life\, as well as different components of SDG. Using data for 2018 covering 27 countries and 40 quality of life/well-being indicators\, this research performs principal components analysis\, and correlation analysis to highlight patterns between well-being indicators and identify key priority indicators which can inform policy makers. Emerging findings highlight that while average income measures remain strongly correlated to many quality of life and SDG 3 indicators\, it is perceived health which is strongly linked to overall life satisfaction. Future research will advance these datasets further to develop indicators for public policy at sub-national and regional levels to identify spatial variations in well-being in order to transform policy-making towards a well-being economy\, and provide the empirical base for measuring sustainability and well-being transformations and policy success.A social-ecological perspective to facilitate transformations towards human-wildlife coexistence\nIne Dorresteijn \nWildlife species\, such as the wolf\, lynx and wild boar\, are making a comeback in Europe. This comeback is creating novel types of human-wildlife interactions and conflicts\, especially in regions where wildlife has been absent for long periods of time. To navigate the wildlife comeback there is often a desire to transform human-wildlife interactions towards low-conflict coexistence between wildlife and people. A promising way forward is to view human-wildlife conflict as the result of a co-adaptive process. Co-adaptation specifies the important roles of both ecological drivers (e.g. wildlife distributions and behaviour) and social drivers (e.g. human values & tolerance\, and conflicts between stakeholders). A co-adaptation perspective also suggests that over time\, humans and wildlife can adapt to changes in their social-ecological environment. Here\, we present an ongoing social-ecological project on human-wildlife conflicts in the Czech and Slovak Western Carpathians. This region experiences increasing human-wildlife conflicts due to human expansion\, land development\, and the comeback of large carnivores and wild boar. In this presentation we will focus on the social drivers. We found that attitudes towards carnivores changed over the past decade in parallel to changing social-ecological circumstances. However\, very diverse opinions on the wildlife comeback persisted in the region. For example\, tolerant farmers regularly recognized relational values or beneficial regulating Nature’s Contributions to People (NCPs)\, while less tolerant farmers often identified negative regulating NCPs such as wildlife-induced damage. Values also played a role in stakeholder cooperation. While different stakeholder groups clashed over wolf protection and the appropriate management of wild boar\, cooperation between stakeholders was facilitated by similar policy-related beliefs on problem framing conflict solutions. We will discuss the relevance of our results on the drivers of conservation conflicts and the need to resolve tensions for further steps in the project to support a transformation towards low-conflict coexistence.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/world-cafe-day-three-morning-r1/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 205
CATEGORIES:Prague
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SUMMARY:World Café Day Three Morning (R2)
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Daniel Peter\, Sherman Farhad\, Mirjam Schleiffer\, Marta Nieto-Romero\, Marta Varanda \nPresentations: \nDisruptive agency dynamics in urban sustainability transformations – A conceptual approach for studying insider-outsider relations in urban mobility systems\nDaniel Peter \nHuman agency plays an essential role for societal transformations since people are in some perspective fundamentally the initiators and carriers of societal change. Large scale societal change\, as sustainability transformation currently requires\, is posed with challenging or even disrupting what is currently normal\, daily routine and structurally given. This process of disruptive change necessarily has to be started and continually enforced by a variety of actors. These have been diversely categorized for exmaple as niche agents\, different types of entrepreneurs\, activists\, intermediaries or just generally as forerunners or change agents. Conceptions of the specific agency these agents posess are still dispersed and partially only vaguely developed. To contribute to advancing our understanding of agency\, in this presentation the insider-outsider dichotomy is applied to a novel conception of disruptive agency as the ability of agents to act with the intention of disrupting a social system in order to transform it purposefully. It is taken the stance that this disruptive agency is performed by a variety of heterogeneous agents who necessarily are in epistemic\, behavioural or institutional regard outsiders to the reference system they want to change. In sustainability transformations\, this disruptivity of outsiders is inherent to the process and required. The co-constitutive interplay between disruptive agency and the relations on one side between different types of outsiders and on the other side between outsiders and insiders is conceptually explored and discussed in the context of an ongoing comparative case city of transforming mobility systems in three German cities. The presentation contributes to an enriched conceptual understanding of the processes and normativities involved in the agency of change agents in sustainability transformations. Further\, by incorporating empirically grounded insights about the dynamic relations between outsiders and insiders naturally occuring in these transformative processes\, consequences for change agents’ strategies and interventions are suggested. \nEcosystem services governance: A cross-realm lever for sustainability transformation\nSherman Farhad \nThe leverage points perspective is used increasingly in sustainability transformation research to foster change and to accelerate progress towards sustainability. Three realms of leverage for the sustainability research agenda have been proposed: human-environment interactions; institutional dynamics\, and sustainability-related knowledge creation and use. However\, studies aiming to better understand the role of cross-realm levers\, which create parallel change in human-nature interactions\, institutions\, and knowledge production and use\, remain scarce. To address this research gap\, here we provide a conceptual framework to investigate the potential for “Ecosystem Services Governance” to serve as a cross-realm lever. More specifically\, through theoretical and empirical analyses we: 1) identify the key features of the three sustainability transformation realms and analyze the way “Ecosystem Services Governance” can support them; 2) exemplify the role of “Ecosystem Services Governance” as a cross-realm lever for sustainability transformation using a case study from Agua Blanca (Ecuador); 3) navigate intra-realm dynamics\, identifying features from diverse realms that may simultaneously be fostered by “Ecosystem Services Governance”; and\, 4) ultimately\, contribute to the transformation\, ecosystem services\, and governance literatures by highlighting specific “Ecosystem Services Governance” enabling mechanisms that can facilitate cross-realm sustainability transformation interventions. \nCrafting narratives: Interest groups using the concept of biodiversity to promote their agendas\nMirjam Schleiffer \nThe term “biodiversity” is loaded with power\, but is sufficiently undefined that it can be used\, or abused\, to promote individual agendas. As part of the Horizon Europe project Planet4B\, we examine the discourse on biodiversity in publications from academia\, mainstream media\, major political parties\, NGOs\, and industry in eight European countries to gain an understanding of how the term is used by interest groups. The results show that Biodiversity can be assigned anthropocentric\, ecocentric\, or science centred values; depending on the interests of the user. A range of rhetoric functions were identified\, with biodiversity being used to inform\, persuade\, accuse\, entertain\, raise hope\, give warning\, or create otherness. The multiplicity of rhetoric functions stems from the freedom of users to define the term how they please\, and the lack of understanding within the wider community of what the term actually means. This allows the power of biodiversity to be used to motivate behavioural change in others\, such as by conservation organizations\, as a weapon for political point scoring\, such as by political parties\, or to justify a continuation of business as usual\, such as by industry. Identifying how the term is used and abused is a step towards reclaiming biodiversity\, so it can stop being used to muddy the waters and greenwash unsustainable behaviour\, but rather be used as a power to promote transformation to sustainable practice. \nClimate change or overexploitation? Facilitating transformative governance configurations in an overexploited aquifer in South Portugal\nMarta Nieto-Romero\, Marta Varanda \nThis communication will report on the process and results of participatory research aiming at facilitating a change in the governance of water so it transforms unsustainable relations to water. The research is implemented in an overexploited aquifer located in a region affected by climate change: Campina de Faro aquifer in the Algarve region (South Portugal). On the one hand\, this communication will tell the story of how climate change is used to perpetrate groundwater overexploitation; including the policies and actions deployed by the multiple policy agencies with responsibility over water use\, the existing conflictual claims and discourses and the negative effects on people and nature. Overexploited by a flourishing agricultural sector based on irrigated crops for export\, and luxury tourism villas around golfs\, most policies are leaning towards the increase of supply of other water origins\, such as treated water or desalination. These technological solutions do not tackle the demand side of the problem\, reinforcing current patterns of resource use and social inequalities. On the other hand\, we will develop a critical analysis of our own participatory research. More than two years after the start of the project\, stakeholders agreed that a collective entity (in a format not yet defined) should be developed to facilitate cooperation between sectors and with public management institutions. However\, lock-ins of transformation exist\, such as the mistrust of small farmers on research\, the power of millionaire residents\, legislation that privatizes groundwater\, and the power of engineers’ academics\, among others. Thus\, we reflect back on the assumptions of the project since the start and how they have evolved to derive key learnings. By doing so\, we seek to facilitate a debate around the following question: can the current contexts and frames of actions within research projects and academics facilitate truly transformative research? If so\, how?
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/world-cafe-day-three-morning-r2/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 206
CATEGORIES:Prague
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Strengthening empathy and systems thinking as competencies for transformation towards sustainability -  A hands on persona workshop
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Anna Schwachula\, Tatjana Reiber\n\nRedirecting pathways towards sustainable development requires substantive transformations throughout our societies. To find solutions for complex sustainability challenges\, actors of different social groups and sectors need to cooperate. Competencies for transformation comprise of different types of knowledge\, skills and attitudes. In the workshop proposed\, we focus on practicing the competencies of empathizing and holistic thinking through the method of working with “personas”. Empathy and systems thinking are prerequisites for collaborating on sustainability issues\, to design fair and inclusive transformation processes; to develop and implement sustainable solutions; thereby making sure to leave no-one behind\, as demanded by the Agenda 2030.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/strengthening-empathy-and-systems-thinking-as-competencies-for-transformation-towards-sustainability-a-hands-on-persona-workshop/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230714T130000
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Educating Sustainable Innovators in a Digital World: A new trans- and interdisciplinary approach for Higher Education Systems
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sabrina Schork \nWe know from former research that we need to develop self-effective individuals and self-organized groups that think and act sustainably as well as digital. The need to transform our society into a pro-actively shaping one that stays resilient (optimistic\, solution-oriented\, self-responsible\, networked\, and future shaping) in an unstable\, volatile\, ambidextrous\, and complex hybrid world combining virtual and physical realities\, is very high. Since students will be the shapers of the future of nations\, they should be the focus of the higher education program which will be co-created during the T-Practice and focuses on the education of sustainable innovators. \nTransdisciplinary research methods that have proven successful in transformation processes are used. Politicians\, practitioners\, different scientific disciplines as well as students and teachers are invited. These can register for the T-Practice in advance. Between 30-60 people can participate in the 1.5-hour World Café format. \nDepending on the number of registrations\, there will be one or two runs in the 1.5 hours (30-minute run for 30 registrations; 15-minute run for 60 registrations). Each group will consist of a maximum of ten people and will be mixed trans- and interdisciplinary. The groups will build on their respective developed outcomes. There are three stations. There is a facilitator at each station who introduces the method\, accompanies the process and documents the results. At Station 1\, the groups use Brainpainting to build the ideal environment for a trans- and interdisciplinary educational program for sustainable innovators at higher education institutions. At Station 2\, the participants decide on the three to five most important transformational competencies that need to be trained in Sustainable Innovators Training and how this can work. Input is provided by a competency wall that draws from a variety of studies. At Station 3\, the groups select machine skills\, digital applications\, and characteristics of role models or teachers that must be present in any case in Sustainable Innovator Training. Again\, there are input walls to choose from. \nA cameraperson records emotion-driven video sequences with different zoom perspectives from the group work. The person edits a video together after the workshop\, shared via YouTube and the conference website. Enrollees can download the T-Practice results from the cloud. \nIn summary\, the T-Practice will mainly generate knowledge about Transformative Learning and proportionately about Transformative Leadership and Transformative Innovations. \nThe results will be used to set up a living laboratory\, which can be used worldwide in cooperation with transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary partners.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/t-practice-workshop-educating-sustainable-innovators-in-a-digital-world-a-new-trans-and-interdisciplinary-approach-for-higher-education-systems/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 206
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Ecological Empathy: A Relational Practice for Sustainability
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lauren Lambert\n\n\nEcological empathy can help to build human-nature (re) connection by enhancing relational values in sustainability practice. In this session I will present a step by step practice for considering more-than-human species into research contexts through building ecological empathy. This model is based on an integration of literature from biophilia\, deep ecology\, embodied cognition\, and multi-species ethnography and is intended to enhance the way researchers address human-nature (re)connection in their work. The workshop will provide a practice environment within which practitioners and researchers can bring their research contexts and we will workshop building ecological empathy for a select number of projects.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/t-practice-workshop-ecological-empathy-a-relational-practice-for-sustainability/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 205
CATEGORIES:Prague
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Practical Wisdom
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Guido Caniglia\, Rebecca Freeth\, Marina Knickel\n\n\n\nContributing to transformative processes of change towards sustainability is an admirable but daunting aspiration. These processes require embracing transformative change at multiple levels from personal to teams and entire organisations. In this T-session\, we present an approach to foster transformative change based on the virtue of practical wisdom. This ancient virtue may support individuals\, teams or entire organisations to develop conditions and capacities to wisely navigate complex\, uncertain processes of change towards “good outcomes”. This capacity for navigation combines will for direction and determination (through justice\, care\, humility\, and courage) and skill in deliberation and action (through agility\, intelligence\, discernment\, and strategy). Departing from the individual level\, we will work with participants to explore the collective dimensions of practical wisdom at team and organisational levels. First\, participants will share narratives about their own experiences of practical wisdom in research and practice teams and organisations\, and reflect on these. Second\, they will condense insights into principles for the development and management of teams and organisations. Participants will come out of the session with some new reflexive tools\, visualisations\, narratives\, and principles that will help them\, their teams and their organisations to navigate the complexities of processes of transformative change.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/96/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 206
CATEGORIES:Prague
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SUMMARY:Online Panel: Transformative Policy\, Institutions\, and Organizations
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Genta Konci\, Mariana Zafeirakopoulos\, Glory Dee Romo\n\n\nPresentations\n\n\n\nPromoting paradigm shifts towards a climate-resilient world: Lessons from evaluations of the Green Climate Fund\nGenta Konci\nMost multilateral development agencies aim for change that is ‘transformational’ or that shifts the ‘paradigm’. In many ways transformation has become the holy grail in development assistance\, with most development and environmental aid agencies aspiring to deliver transformational change. How much progress has the world’s largest multilateral climate fund\, the Green Climate Fund (GCF)\, made on its mandate to promote paradigm shifts towards low-emission and climate-resilient development pathways in developing countries? That is what the Second Period Review (SPR)\, conducted by the Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) of the GCF\, seeks to answer. This presentation will highlight selected findings from the SPR including how partnerships function at the GCF and what progress has been made towards its mandate. It will also draw from the IEU’s research on transformational change\, and findings from evaluations on the relevance and effectiveness of the GCF’s investments in vulnerable countries\, including Small Island and Developing States\, Least Developed Countries\, and African States. The findings highlighted in the report include: • Results and impact of GCF investments: There have been modest climate impacts but that results may be forthcoming; • Programming in response to country needs: Upstream programming is critical and best pathways are still being established • Accessing to the GCF: There is a diverse network of entities that access the GCF as Accredited Entities\, and direct access to the Fund is growing but limited • Institutional architecture and performance: The Fund’s governance design brings legitimacy but compromises efficiency The IEU’s presentation aims to share insights\, experiences\, and lessons learnt from evaluations of the world’s largest multilateral climate fund to foster discussions amongst practitioners and policy makers on how to formulate transformative partnerships for a better climate-resilient world.Transforming the national security system: a new paradigm and new practices for partnering with people\nMariana ZafeirakopoulosGlobally\, ‘national security’ (NS) is a system associated with militaries\, defence\, conflict and perhaps emergency management and peacekeeping. It is a term that is historically associated with relationships between countries. NS is no longer just about securing physical borders. In our interconnected world\, NS involves Cybersecurity\, food security\, bio and human health\, a healthy planet and waterways. For NS challenges like terrorism and gun-violence\, a lack of community cohesion\, fear\, misinformation and distrust fuels these threats. At the core of these complex and inter-related issues are social factors. These are not just problems about securing the nation\, they are experienced and felt a deeply local and human individual level. This oral presentation posits that human partnership\, across diverse stakeholders\, is key to shaping the NS system we need and want. Expert knowledge in the form of governance\, policy and subject-matter expertise is useful to address familiar problems. However\, expert knowledge is limited when it comes to complex\, emerging and unknown futures. Experiential knowledge is a valuable contribution in helping to bridge the gap. Experiential knowledge is about harnessing the knowledge and understanding of lived experience. Validating a breadth of human experiences and diverse knowledge is a paradigm shift needed in national security. This presentation will introduce a methodological contribution and initial findings from research undertaken on participatory approaches to shape NS\, focusing on the future of AI and Cybersecurity. It will introduce a new relational paradigm for NS which translates into new practices for NS advisers that recommend greater partnership with people to shape desirable and inclusive futures\, for example empathising with under-represented voices to explore future unknown\, consequences and opportunities. These findings support a call to transform our NS system into a more human-centred and generative system\, away from one that is locked within frames of opposition and scarcity. \nEnabling Mechanisms for Gender Research in the Agriculture\, Aquaculture\, and Natural Resources Sector in the Philippines and their Transformative Impact to the Sector\nGlory Dee Romo \nThe Harmonized Gender and Development Guidelines tool has been used to assess the gender mainstreaming component of the proposed research projects for government funding. However\, there are still very few researchers who are knowledgeable about gender mainstreaming and gender analyses and the relevant tools and frameworks. A total of 41 researchers from the three major groups of islands\, Luzon\, Visayas\, and Mindanao were interviewed about their current research projects\, research priorities in the Agriculture\, Aquaculture\, and Natural Resources (AANR) sector and the challenges in mainstreaming gender and including gender analyses in their proposed projects. The data were processed using the MAXQDA software. One way of influencing the academic institutions’ gender research agenda is through a funding agencies’ framework and agenda that would include\, encourage\, and capacitate both the experienced and the young faculty members to engage in these types of research. Funding agencies may also incentivize the academic institutions that provide opportunities for faculty members who have limited experience in research. Collaborative research partnerships facilitated by funding agencies between experienced researchers and faculty members with no or limited research experience from different universities may also help strengthen the gender research agenda in the sector. These partnerships will have to include a mentoring project component. Tools used in monitoring and evaluating the research project cycle will have to be customized depending on focused subsector. Lastly\, creating communities across different universities that will encourage all genders to discuss and share their gender research in AANR sector may also have an enduring impact in the gender research landscape in the country.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/online-panel-transformative-policy-institutions-and-organizations/
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Guided Tour: Transformational Prague
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URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/guided-tour-transformational-prague-3/
LOCATION:Foyer
CATEGORIES:Prague
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SUMMARY:Spotlight on Place-based Transformations Initiatives: Food Systems New England
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Curtis Ogden\, Karen Spiller\n\n\nThis session will entail a closer look at Food Solutions New England (FSNE)\, a 12 year old network advancing a more just\, sustainable\, resilient and democratic regional food system in the Northeastern United States. We will consider the importance of network weaving and development\, core values including equity\, and structures/roles and core focal points (impact areas) in advancing change in the direction of a shared vision (in this case\, the New England Food Vision).\n\nJoin Karen Spiller and Curtis Ogden\, two of the founding members of FSNE and co-facilitators of the FSNE Network Leadership Institute and the 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge for this exploration.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/spotlight-on-place-based-transformations-initiatives-food-systems-new-england/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 205
CATEGORIES:Online,Prague
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SUMMARY:Supportive Environments for Getting in Right Relation to Our Communities and Ourselves
DESCRIPTION:Our objective is to collectively explore what environments can foster commitment\, heart-centered connections to humans and non-humans\, and trust\, which together are defined as a “transformative relationality”. Building on insights from a workshop on “relational transdisciplinarity” organized last February by the tdAcademy in Leuphana University\, the session will provide all participants with insights into the five steps to relationality and engage them in group discussions to identify community or organizational settings that have best supported our transformative change efforts. \nSpeakers: David Manuel-Navarrete\, Carlos Álvarez Pereira\, Violeta Cabello\, Vicki Nichols Goldstein \nPresentations: \n\n\nRelational transdisciplinarity – Five reflexive steps for embodying relational ontologies in transdisciplinary learning contexts\nDavid Manuel-Navarrete\n\nTransdisciplinary learning is achieved through building reciprocal relationships in collaborative processes that hold room for diverse worldviews and ways of knowing and being. Understanding how to nurture relational dynamics in specific research contexts is key to co-produce transdisciplinary knowledge. In this blog article\, we propose five reflexive steps to embody relational ontologies for transdisciplinary learning. Embodying a relational ontology goes beyond building relationships or learning relationally. It means that researchers open up to co-becoming in-relation with the transdisciplinary learning context. Developed by a fellow group of international researchers from Malaysia\, Botswana\, the US\, and Germany\, we hope to provide guidance for a diversity of people interested in exploring how to enrich transdisciplinary learning processes
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/spotlight-on-innovation-oriented-transformations-initiatives/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 206
CATEGORIES:Online,Prague
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SUMMARY:Transformations as relations between actors: framing\, reflexivity\, and action
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Marco Billi\, Christina Zurbriggen\, Roxana Bórquez\, Anahí Urquiza\, Silvana Juri \n  \nPresentations: \nDiscussing structural\, systemic and enabling approaches to socio-environmental transformations: Stimulating an interdisciplinary and plural debate within the social sciences\nMarco Billi \nIn recent decades\, the social sciences have engaged more deeply with the evolving interconnection and interdependence between the social and the natural world. Once the privileged domain of ecological and Earth sciences\, the observation of how human processes alter and shape the biophysical and human environment has become a key topic within social science circles. Similarly\, social science scholars have brought novel concerns to the table about the changes that societies are undertaking in order to respond to or prevent such human induced changes in the environment. The very idea of ‘Nature’\, and of a separation between Humanity and Nature\, has become a key topic of debate within social science practice. \nWhile this has fostered a creative expansion of the analytical toolboxes employed to tackle socio-environmental transformations with novel concepts and methods\, it has been accompanied by a fragmentation of the topic into an array of different (and sometimes conflicting) approaches\, each imbued with distinct conceptions of change and more or less explicit value-commitments. With few -albeit notable- exceptions\, each of these approaches has been pursued differently and in relatively self-enclosed epistemic communities\, often reflecting enduring disciplinary or theoretical divides\, and preventing a reflexive debate on the interactions and possible synergies between each of these perspectives on socio-environmental transformations. \nIn order to overcome these traditional divisions and foster a more plural\, creative and reflexive debate\, in this Poster we present the fruit of an interdisciplinary discussion involving scholars and research practitioners from different regions and epistemic communities to engage with the different approaches to and dimensions of socio-environmental transformations\, as well as their possible interaction and integration. The results discuss novel theoretical and methodical reflections on different conceptions of and analytical approximations of socio-environmental transformations\, considering particular experiences and case studies. \nTransformations as relations between actors: framing\, reflexivity\, and action\nChristina Zurbriggen \nA significant challenge in the transformation processes is to accept that the understanding of reality requires a reconceptualization of the underlying assumptions that define the social ecological construction\, with an understanding of the interactions and complex dynamics of the systems in question (climate change\, poverty\, and loss of biodiversity\, etc.)\, integrating different knowledge systems. Although there is a growing consensus in academia on this matter\, our understanding of how this may occur and does occur in practice still needs to be improved. We seek to discuss how the relational approach can contribute to the transformation process\, relying on three fundamental competencies that the combination of different strands of systems thinking has generated: the understanding of the existing system and its complex dynamics\, the multilevel approach to the design of local systems and its transitions; and the knowledge of the actors of the system and their participation in a co-creation process. We will reflect on relational theory and the systemic approach\, attempting a dialogue between three different systemic strands\, all of which have taken a relational understanding on transformations (socio-ecological resilience theory\, socio-technical transitions theory\, and social systems theory). We assume that\, to achieve transformations\, we need to develop new assemblies between communication systems through structural couplings (second-order couplings) with the consciousness systems of the actors responsible for the diachronic and differentiated transformation of the interventions in space that characterize them. This could allow us to understand transformations as relations between actors distinct from their contexts but structurally coupled to them\, keeping in mind that driving change means engaging other systems on their terms. To illustrate\, we provide brief examples of case studies we have encountered in our practice in Latin America\, particularly in Chile and Uruguay\, discussing the lessons learned for the practice of just transformation to sustainability. \nTerritorial transitions in Latin America: a dialogue between social systems theory and sociotechnical systems approaches\nRoxana Bórquez \nThis paper seeks to will discuss how systemic design can contribute to territorial enhancement by relying on three fundamental competencies that the combination of systems thinking has generated: the understanding of the existing system and its complex dynamics\, the multilevel approach to the design of local systems and their transitions; and the knowledge of system stakeholders and their involvement in a co-creation process. We will then reflect on what systems design can learn from social systems theory and particularly from the literature on contextual interventions. In the first section\, the paper proposes a conceptual dialogue between Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory and two other interdisciplinary systems-theoretical approaches\, associated with the study of socio-technical systems transitions\, and socio-ecological systems resilience. After briefly revising the similarities and differences between the epistemological and analytical approaches each of these offers\, we advance an integrated conceptualization of the ‘territory’ as a system-of-systems emerging from the interaction between socio-ecological\, sociotechnical and social systems dynamics. We show how this conceptualization allows us to offer a deeper and more integrated perspective to understand and foster territorial-sensitive climate resilient transition pathways. In a second part\, we will discuss\, from the proposed theoretical perspective\, the contribution of systemic design methodological approaches. The sustainable transition of territorial systems requires effective inter and transdisciplinary research methods and tools to manage its systemic complexity. Said complexity\, particularly\, requires a learning process to understand the local context\, acknowledge local knowledge\, and to make such knowledge available to all the actors involved in the transition process. The transition design approach can support these learning process by framing the complexity of the territorial system as a whole and help the actors involved in the transition process to understand the current system\, build a new vision\, and implement it into a new territorial system. \nSARAS T-Lab: from imagining to realizing desirable futures\nAnahí Urquiza \nThe complexity of the socio-environmental problems facing Latin America and the world demands bold\, urgent\, and creative collective action. Such a process requires innovation in designing public policies and developing new attitudes\, capacities\, and tools to achieve them. This prompted us to develop the Transition Lab at the South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies (SARAS)\, an experimental platform that adopts the Transition Design approach. This paper will present the theoretical and methodological model that constitutes the platform by highlighting the aspects linking Transition Design with frameworks such as Resilience Thinking\, Socio-technical transitions\, Systemic Interventionism\, and Critical Policy Design. The lab is an evolving process open to new approaches in constant reflection and learning. We will outline the main contributions of these integrations and the areas that need further examination\, expansion\, or testing in practice. Our model aims to enable and support apolitical imagination and the creative foreshadowing of sustainable and resilient futures otherwise. This involves accepting the socio-political nature of transformation processes\, agreeing on desired trajectories\, managing conflicts and controversies\, understanding narratives and the values of the different actors\, and the generation of dialogical arenas to envision desirable futures\, develop a theory of change\, and co-produce knowledge that results in transformative action. In this article we propose to reflect on innovative experiences that allow this pluralism and consilience of knowledge to develop the knowledge and nurture the wisdom necessary for this existential challenge. Finally\, we discuss this approach by putting it in dialogue with other experiences in Latin America and the world.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/transformations-as-relations-between-actors-framing-reflexivity-and-action/
LOCATION:Online Room 2
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Synthesis and Brainstorming
DESCRIPTION:During this final session of the conference\, attendees will reflect on their experience and consider how we can develop as a field\, and how the Transformations Community can enhance our ability to be effective transformations practitioners and capable stewards of transformations initiatives. \nSpeakers: Curtis Ogden\, Julia Leventon\, Bruce Goldstein
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/synthesis-and-brainstorming/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 206
CATEGORIES:Prague
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SUMMARY:Concluding Remarks
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Susanne Moser; Bruce Goldstein \nClosing Session:\nJoin your community for an invigorating closing session that focuses on turning inspiration into action! Hear from sensemakers cross the 300 sessions as we move into tangible transformations. Have your say on what stands out as most impactful\, and shape the steps we’ll take moving forward.\nWe’re honored to have Susie Moser as our keynote speaker. Susie’s expertise lies in equitable adaptation and transformation in the face of climate change. She focuses on climate change communication to drive social change and facilitates effective interactions between scientists\, policymakers\, and the public. \nAnd of course\, it wouldn’t be a closing session without a celebration! Grab your party hat and prepare for the journeys ahead.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/concluding-remarks/
CATEGORIES:Online,Prague
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