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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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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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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:Guided Tour: Transformational Prague
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URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/guided-tour-transformational-prague-2/
LOCATION:Foyer
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: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: 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: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: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:Evening Reception at Vila Lanna
DESCRIPTION:Reception is already included in registration fees\, but please indicate if you’ll be in attendance through this form. \nLogistics:\nThe nearest metro station is Hradcanska and then it is a 10 minute walk – you can take the green line from Mustek. You can also take the number 18 tram from outside the conference venue to tram stop Kralovsky Letohradek\, and then its about 13 minutes to Vila Lanna. Various of the organisers will also be coming\, and will give tips on walking all the way there\, or on fun routes that combine public transport and a bit of sight-seeing.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/evening-reception-at-vila-lanna/
LOCATION:Vila Lanna\, V Sadech 1/1\, 160 00 Praha 6-Bubeneč\, Prague\, Czech Republic
CATEGORIES:Prague
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SUMMARY:Harvesting and Networking
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LOCATION:Foyer
CATEGORIES:Prague
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SUMMARY:Decolonizing knowledge and learning systems by reconciling diverse ways of knowing
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Viola Hakkarainen\, Joel Onyango\, Gladys Kivati\, Nora Ndege\n\nViola Hakkarainen will introduce the concept of engaging with diverse ways of knowing for sustainability transformations\, and Joel Onyango\, Gladys Kivati\, and Nora Ndege will provide an in-depth case study of Learning Libraries\, an effort to decolonize institutionalized knowledge practices by developing culturally-embedded and  non-elitist knowledge systems. \nThe epistemic dimension of human-nature relationships for inclusive and just sustainability transformations\nViola Hakkarainen \nKnowledge processes such as (co-)creation\, exchange and application are in many ways central to transformations towards sustainability. One of the key questions in sustainability science is how to reconcile diverse ways of knowing in planning and implementing just and sustainable futures. Sustainability science has adopted many approaches to collaborative knowledge production. What they hold in common is the need to recognize epistemic plurality to be able to address power dynamics and create just and inclusive outcomes. However\, there are few empirical examples on how to navigate the epistemic plurality. In this presentation\, I introduce and unpack the epistemic dimension of human-nature relationships. By using empirical case examples from a science-policy interface (The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) and ecosystem governance (High Coast/Kvarken Archipelago UNESCO World Heritage Site)\, I exemplify how the epistemic dimension can be approached in research and environmental decision-making processes. I then discuss the implications of the epistemic dimension for sustainability science and show how researchers involved in the many forms of collaborative knowledge processes can draw on the epistemic dimension both to increase their own reflexivity but also to understand the contexts they conduct research in. I argue that considering the epistemic dimension is the key for critical and inclusive sustainability science which aims at minimizing its contribution to epistemic domination and injustices and through collaborative knowledge production challenges the existing status-quo and business-as-usual practices. \nLiving Libraries – Decolonising knowledge and learning systems\nJoel Onyango\, Gladys Kivati\, Nora Ndege \nAcross the developing world\, the institutionalization of learning has made access to knowledge within various learning settings a preserve for the elite and privileged. This has made local knowledge transmission almost none-existent in some communities of practice. In an effort to decolonise knowledge and learning systems in the developing world\, self-emerging and organized knowledge through storytelling and cultural histories have emerged. However\, a framework to allow the institutionalized knowledge systems to be integrated with the self-emerging knowledge paradigm\, needs various approaches. In this practice session\, we open up a dialogue on how living libraries\, as a tool and approach\, could bridge the integration of institutionalized and self-emerging knowledge systems. The session offers an opportunity for panelists and participants to self-reflect on how living libraries have emerged\, how they can be used to transform the knowledge economy in the developing world\, and how the agency of living books can be challenged to encourage reduced elitist and privilege on knowledge production\, availability and recognition. This session provides a nexus into the transformation conference 2023 by leveraging diversified knowledge frameworks and opening up the space for the transformation community to explore alternative approaches to knowing and learning in the developing world.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/living-libraries/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 206
CATEGORIES:Online,Prague
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SUMMARY:Collaborative Systems Mapping and Visioning
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Julia Leventon\, Zuzana Harmackova\, Silja Zimmermann\, Jan Christian Polanía Giese\, Bruce Goldstein\n\n\n\nPanelists will describe their collaborative mapping processes\, engage in dialogue about the similarities and differences in design\, implementation\, and purpose\, and engage session attendees in exploring these questions related to how to engage diverse communities in identifying transformative outcomes and pathways\, including leverage points for change. We will consider questions that include: \n\nHow do we cultivate a shared understanding of what systems are\, how to think about defining them\, and their boundaries?\nWhat insights can collaborative systems mapping offer to addressing capacity needs/gaps and strengths/contributions?\nHow can these insights better strengthen transformative leadership within organizations and initiatives?\nHow can we use collective visioning and systems mapping/analysis to inform\, guide\, inspire?\nHow can we used these methods both in community-based collaboratives (at a variety of scales) and stakeholder-based/sectoral transformations initiative?\nHow does this field need to develop and how can we contribute to it?\n\nThis session will include these three presentations: \nTipping the Iceberg: Leveraging a food transition for Indigenous communities in the Bering Sea by combining complex systems thinking and transdisciplinary approaches\nSilja Zimmermann \nAs the world becomes more interlinked\, humanity faces ever more complex challenges. Solutions to these problems are progressively difficult to identify\, and traditional approaches are often refacing sustainability issues but do not lead to sustainable systems. Tackling these interlinked problems demands us to move beyond isolated disciplinary research and towards problem-driven\, transdisciplinary approaches. Arctic Indigenous food systems often struggle with a plethora of such complex challenges whilst at the same time being highly interlinked and involving multiple scales and actors. In other words\, increasingly complex challenges in Arctic Indigenous food systems require new strategies to find and implement successful solutions. We have carried out a systematic literature review of Arctic Indigenous food systems research and found three promising directions for future research. Building on the insights from our review\, we believe (1) the decolonisation of research practices and the Western scientific paradigm\, (2) the acknowledgement of cross-scale feedback between shallow and deep leverage points\, as well as (3) transdisciplinary action-oriented research collaborations to be of particular importance to enable effective system transformations towards futures of increased food security for Arctic Indigenous communities. To put the vision of such co-produced complexity approaches into practice\, we have teamed up with the Aleut community of St. Paul Island to co-design a transdisciplinary project that deploys methods from complex system science to gain a holistic understanding of the Indigenous St. Paul Island food system and its complex challenges to find key leverage points for sustainability transformation. Thus\, the Tipping the Iceberg project provides a unique opportunity to assess whether complex systems science combined with transdisciplinary approaches can lead to actual changes on the ground. \nBIOTRAILS Framework of Transitional Pathways and Leverage Points\nJan Christian Polanía Giese \nBIOTRAILS is a Horizon Europe project\, funded by the European Union\, which aims to generate knowledge and develop tools that will inspire and accelerate biodiversity-relevant transformative change in society. The project takes into account the complex interrelations between the indirect drivers of change in four value chains of traded products: cocoa produced in Peru; fisheries and aquaculture products supplied by the Mediterranean basin; gold mined in Ghana\, and forest-based cultural products created by indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon. This oral presentation presents the results of a preliminary analysis of the four value chains\, drawing on two theoretical concepts from systems analysis\, the “leverage points” framework (Meadows 1999) and “Attitudes-Facilitators-Infrastructure (AFI) framework” (Akenji and Chen 2016). The preliminary analysis identifies levers for successful transformational change in the four value chain systems. The results of the analysis will be discussed with a view to refining the specific leverage points relevant in each case. The ambition is that\, in a next step\, the potential interventions triggering those leverage points will be assessed to design transitional pathways and to derive a set of specific and practical recommendations for each value chain context. Ultimately\, the goal is to derive broader policy recommendations and implications for other systems. \n\n\nSystems mapping approaches for designing and critiquing change towards sustainability\nJulia LeventonI will reflect on how systems mapping approaches can contribute to designing and critiquing change towards sustainability. I will use examples from research and practice relating to creating change in the food and textiles sectors\, and to thinking about scaling of behaviour change for transformations. Using a set of illustrations\, co-created with an artist and team of researchers\, I will: consider how leverage points and systems thinking can be applied to target intervention activities and to exploring pathways of change; highlight the scope and limits of these interventions; and consider the role and positionality of research. We can also draw on this work to think about how systems thinking frameworks help organize different knowledge types into bigger pictures of transformative change.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/collaborative-systems-mapping-and-visioning/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 205
CATEGORIES:Online,Prague
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SUMMARY:World Café Day One Afternoon: Drawing on Diverse Sources of Knowledge in Partnerships
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Violeta Cabello\, Sarah Velten\, Eugenia Castellazzi\, Sierra Deutsch\, Viola Hakkarainen\, Sara Zaman\, Jakub Macha \nPresentations: \nShifting values\, knowledge systems and agency in education\, institutes and policy\nViola Hakkarainen\, Sara Zaman\, Eugenia Castellazzi \nFrom academics\, policy makers\, to practitioners\, humans often work within the context of institutions that partially provide the scope of what a desirable future looks like. Sustainability and transformative change mean vastly different things to individuals within these contexts. Having developed processes for integrating institutional knowledges and values\, it remains unclear how these processes intend to fundamentally challenge existing worldviews within institutions\, thereby dealing with the ultimate alienation of human from nature\, and mind from body. Our research therefore unsettles institutional claims to sustainability on multiple fronts. We have introduced relational learning through role-plays to secondary schools\, research the transformative potential of online sustainability education in universities\, and used embodiment to uncover care-ful relationships in the smart city. In these contexts\, we demonstrate the need for shifting and enriching sustainable educational and urban planning paradigms with relational and embodied approaches. These approaches can enable humans to understand past\, present and future more-than-human interdependencies. \nFostering positive biodiversity outcomes of the EU Common Agricultural Policy through multi-level transformative partnerships in Baden-Württemberg and Thuringia\, Germany\nSarah Velten \nAgriculture is both one of the main drivers of ongoing biodiversity loss and one of the sectors that suffer most from the consequences of this unsustainable trend. In the European Union\, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) crucially shapes agricultural practice and its effects on biodiversity. Agri-environmental requirements and measures have been part of the CAP since the 1990s. However\, despite substantial investments in these measures\, biodiversity loss in European agricultural landscapes is far from being stopped or reversed. There are multiple causes for the limited effectiveness of the agri-environmental legislation and measures\, such as insufficient payments\, too little flexibility of the measures\, risk of sanctions etc. Also\, farmers feel too little involved in the design of the measures and see measures to be poorly adapted to day-to-day agricultural practice. Project CAP4GI aims to identify leverage points improve agricultural support under the CAP in terms of both biodiversity outcomes and economic feasibility for farms. As part of this endeavor\, the project team has established partnerships with farmers and other agricultural stakeholders in two federal states in Germany (Baden-Württemberg and Thuringia). At these so-called exchange platforms\, all partners work together in a co-design process to develop solutions for better biodiversity outcomes in the agriculture of the addressed regions and thereby highlight potential improvements for the CAP in general. The platforms are realized on both regional and state-level. With this multi-level design\, the partnerships attempt to facilitate effective knowledge co-production\, tackle power imbalances while enabling the involvement of a wide range of different stakeholders\, and increase the relevance of the outputs of the partnership. The oral presentation will describe the design of this process and will reflect on lessons learned so far regarding the potential of these partnerships to shape transformations. \nTransdisciplinary transformative change: an analysis of some best practices and barriers\, and the potential of critical social science in getting us there\nSierra Deutsch \nBiodiversity experts now widely acknowledge that transformative change is best supported through transdisciplinary collaborations. Yet\, such collaborations rarely successfully occur in major biodiversity research institutions and those that do rarely achieve the paradigmatic effects they aim to deliver. To gain some insight into this global phenomenon\, we surveyed Swiss-based researchers and non-academic stakeholders addressing global change and biodiversity. In this article\, we connect our findings to global patterns in transdisciplinary transformative change initiatives (TTCIs) and heuristically divide collaboration barriers into two categories: lack of resources and lack of vital functional elements. Two of the major themes that emerged from this research were the continued difficulties with (1) establishing a common ‘language’\, understanding\, and goals\, and (2) meaningful pluralization of knowledge in transdisciplinary collaborations aimed at addressing global change and biodiversity loss. The former is widely cited in the literature as contributing to the failure of TTCIs in the form of incoherent problem-framing\, while the latter is often identified as contributing to the lack of structural transformative change (e.g.\, paradigmatic shifts) in completed initiatives. Another major theme reflected in TTCI literature was limited time. Moreover\, based on our own extensive inter- and transdisciplinary experience\, we agree with other experts that there is a persistent lack of understanding of the potential contributions of critical social science (CSS) to TTCIs. We thus argue that enhancing resource availability for TTCIs\, especially tools for improving CSS literacy\, could save time and support both problem-framing alignment and delivery of the structural/paradigmatic changes we aspire to. \nSituating knowledge co-production in environmental conflicts\nVioleta Cabello \nThis presentation shares insights from a Transformation Lab focused on the eutrophication of a coastal lagoon\, the Mar Menor\, in Southern Spain. Building upon a reflection of what can transformation mean in a context of ecological grief and strong social contestation\, I situate a methodological design for a Transformation Lab that targeted humble individual and collective transformations. I emphasize the importance of the initial steps in knowledge co-production when relations are build with potential participants and crucial decisions are to be made on inclusivity and on how to attend to intersectional power differentials. I reflect on how the results of the process partially achieved its purposes\, namely\, opening a safe-enough space for dialogue among divergent positions and creating a sense of collectivity among them. I further discuss how both external and internal contexts of polarization influenced the process and how internally processing such conflicts was fundamental for me as researcher-facilitator in order to sustain it. I contend that inner and outer dimensions of transformation need to be coupled when co-producing knowledge in environmental conflicts. \nKnowledge networks and partnerships in CEE grassroots\nJakub Macha
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/world-cafe-day-one-afternoon/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 206
CATEGORIES:Prague
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SUMMARY:Transformations Organizations
DESCRIPTION:Leaders of transformation organizations will explore: \n\nWhat are transformations initiatives\, and how do they differ from other social change initiatives?\nWhat have we learned about how to design and structure transformations initiatives?\nWhat are the principal challenges in building and sustaining transformations initiatives\, and how can we address those challenges?\n\nModerators: Bruce Goldstein (Transformations Community) and Ioan Fazey (University of Kent) \nPanelists: \n\nDerk Loorbach\, DRIFT\nCarolina Carvalho\, Activator\, Global Regeneration Co-Lab\nMamphela Ramphele\, Co-President\, The Club of Rome\, South Africa\, and founder Reimagine SA
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/transformations-organizations/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 205
CATEGORIES:Online,Prague
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SUMMARY:Guided Tour: Transformational Prague
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URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/guided-tour-transformational-prague/
LOCATION:Foyer
CATEGORIES:Prague
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T130000
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Co-creative reflection and dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Felix Beyers\, Carolin Fraude\, Valerie Voggenreiter\n\n\nHow can we confront and deal with fears while strengthening trust in the UN Climate Policy? Together with several partner organizations\, the TranS-Mind research group at the RIFS (former IASS) took a special interest in this question at COP27 in Egypt last year. The aim was designing and exploring (political) spaces that include and embrace the inner dimension of transformation. The aspiration here is to create space for reflection and to dive deeper into these personal states in order to explore their normative value in transformative research.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/t-practice-workshop-co-creative-reflection-and-dialogue/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 206
CATEGORIES:Prague
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T130000
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Assessing when Change is Transformative
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Fern Wickson\, Julia Leventon \nTransformative change is currently receiving much attention from science\, practice and science-policy interfaces. The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change 6th assessment (released 2022) refers to the need for societal transformation to mitigate and adapt to climate change\, and ensure climate resilient development. Further\, the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is currently performing a Transformative Change Assessment\, an appraisal and comparison of different visions\, theories\, scenarios\, and pathways for transformations towards a sustainable future. Such assessments aim to deliver relevant messages drawn from the basis of existing evidence to various types of decision-makers. They should therefore produce actionable\, readable outcomes that are useful to multiple beneficiaries. Part of the challenge to creating policy and society relevant\, actionable messages lies in being able to show what actions create transformative change; leading to the question of how we define\, measure and monitor transformative change towards which visions\, particularly as distinct from ongoing patterns of destruction of nature. \nIn this session\, we will facilitate a process of experience and idea sharing on the topic of assessing transformative change. We want to draw together ideas while exploring a range of questions relating to monitoring\, evaluating and assessing transformative change\, such as: \n\nWhat types of assessment approaches are available and useful for evaluating transformative changes in process?\nWhat do assessment approaches that provide clear and usable actions for policy makers and practitioners entail/require?\nHow can assessment and evaluation approaches balance a policy need for specific forms of evidence with the qualitative\, longer-term impacts and uncertainties of transformative change processes?\nHow could assessment approaches avoid forcing binary classifications of transformative vs not transformative change?\nWhat would evaluation approaches that encourage continued reflection\, learning and improvement amongst practitioners and policy makers look like?\nHow can the assessment and evaluation of transformative change be made feasible for practitioners and policy makers in practice?\n\nPlease join us with your ideas\, experiences and reflections!
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/t-practice-workshop-assessing-when-change-is-transformative/
LOCATION:Prague Room UN IC
CATEGORIES:Prague
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