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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: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: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: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: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: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: 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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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: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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230714T100000
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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: 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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230713T203000
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SUMMARY:Meditation 2: Compassion for oneself\, others and the world
DESCRIPTION:Facilitators: Pål Dobrin\, Therese Asplund\n\n\nThis session is designed as a meditative practice and sharing of experiences among the online community at the Transformations Conference 2023. Based on the Buddhist tradition of the Four Immeasurables – loving-kindness (friendliness)\, compassion (willing to cease suffering)\, appreciative joy (feeling happy for others)\, and equanimity (calm based on wisdom) (Sujiva\, 2003)\, this meditation session will guide the participants on a journey into the heart. The heart has to have its place\, and be heard. We have ignored it much too often\, notably as current approach to realizing climate and sustainability targets has been predominantly techno-economic informed by rational choice models of decision-making (O’Brien\, 2018). In addition\, feelings of stress\, anxiety and pain is often associated with the threats climate change poses. This meditation guides our focus to the subtle awareness within\, to self-love\, to wishing happiness to others and non-human life forms on Earth. It offers kindness\, humility and feelings of interconnectedness. At the end of the session\, we jointly explore engagement when coming from a place of compassion\, kindness and altruism rather than stress\, anxiety and pain. The presentation is part of a transdisciplinary and collaborative research project between partners Empaticus – an organization with long experience of widom traditions\, contemplative practices and inner transformation and Department of Thematic Studies – unit of Environmental Change\, Center for Climate Policy Research at Linköping University with expertise in the intersection between sustainability transformations\, sense-making\, and communication. In particular\, the project 1) develops a conceptual model for inner transformation processes\, 2) empirically investigates experiences of personal transformative change\, 3) simultaneously engage in partnership for personal sustainability transformations. The presentation is supported by the Swedish Research Council FORMAS under Grant No. 2021 -01254.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/meditation-2-compassion-for-oneself-others-and-the-world/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230713T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230713T203000
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SUMMARY:Toolkit for successful Positive Deviance / Solarpunk protocols in development
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Bobby Fishkin\, Saskia Verraes\, Mark Smith \nHow do we know what we hope for is possible? How do we build a community that can work backward from the most inspirational examples that could possibly be drawn upon?  There are many degrees of positive deviance. Our narrative of the Great Library of Positive Deviance is that we can look at the collective experience to push the limits of what we realistically hope for and work backward from through curating positive deviance. Please join us for an exploration into the future we know is possible. Positive deviance can occur at the personal scale\, at the family scale\, at the neighborhood scale\, at the social innovation scale\, at the scale of a city or a bio-region. Positive deviance can occur in any sector and deviance can be positive for any of a diverse number of reasons. Do you have examples that have shaped your systems change journey and that the world should learn from? Help us approach positive deviance as a protocol to profoundly improve “solar punk” feasibility to help us reach such a bright future. Collaborate to help us apply positive deviance to universal design challenges for systems change. How might we co-create the Great Library of Positive Deviance together and evolve this concept together?
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/toolkit-for-successful-positive-deviance-solarpunk-protocols-in-development/
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230713T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230713T200000
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Activating Collective Potentials
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Pendle\n\n\nOtto Scharmer (2023) observes activating collective capacities towards systemic sustainability\, is a primary deficit in many attempts at complex systemic transformations. Scharmer advocates awareness based systems change. Thus this highly interactive experiential workshop aims to offer a promising socio-cultural practice\, in redirecting collective attention towards the spaces where these mostly dormant\, shared potentials might lie. This art and practice can awaken souls or selves to the larger field in which they are embedded. Which may have the consequent effect of unifying diverse actors\, of building coalitions of meaning\, empowering future changemakers\, whilst evoking new ecologies of being knowing and doing.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/t-practice-workshop-activating-collective-potentials/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230713T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230713T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T151328
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SUMMARY:Online Panel: Transformative Innovations
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Luciano Villalba\, Ailén Acosta\, Velázquez Diego\, Marcelo Stipcich\, Simone Sandholz\, Nathalie Sänger\, Patrick Sanady\, Tania Vachon\, Christina Eisenbarth \n\nPresentations:\n\nTransformative innovation for climate adaptation in vulnerable neighbourhoods of Argentina\nLuciano Villalba\, Velázquez DiegoThe Sixth Assessment IPPC report states clearly that climate adaptation in vulnerable regions is a matter of action that requires urgent and just transformations. In Latin America\, vulnerability to climate change\, like wealth\, is unfairly distributed: those who contribute less to carbon emissions because they have very low or subsistence incomes\, live in poor housing conditions and lack access to public services and infrastructures.\nIn this context\, innovations that can contribute to solving more than one of these factors at once are especially relevant. However\, there are plenty of examples in which “good” ideas conceived by academic or institutional actors to be implemented by “vulnerable people” fail to succeed. Often\, this failure is related to the lack of participation of non-academic actors in the design process and to a misregard vis-à-vis non-academic knowledge.\nIn this oral presentation\, we discuss the results of a transdisciplinary project in which researchers and social organizations co-designed a panel based on recycled polystyrene foam (EPSr) to insulate houses in vulnerable neighbourhoods in the city of Tandil\, Argentina. We describe how the transdisciplinary alliance evolved and the role different actors assumed over time; how context influenced project dynamics and outcomes; the impact of the project on the houses where we installed the panels; the main challenges the team faced.\nIn conclusion\, we discuss to what extents transdisciplinarity projects like this can foster systemic change in the form of sustainability transformation and climate-resilient development\, keeping the protagonism of non-academic actors\, and what are the main barriers that would allow a wide-spreading of this kind of innovations. \nUrban sustainability transformation – What is it actually and how can you make it happen?\nSimone Sandholz\, Nathalie Sänger\, Patrick Sanady \nTransformation is increasingly seen as one – if not the only – path to sustainable and zero-carbon futures. The same is true for transformation of urban areas\, which are home to more than half of the world’s population. Due to unsustainable and excessive use of resources\, unplanned urbanization and other factors\, cities are a cause of climate change. At the same time cities are witnessing climate change and disaster impacts\, putting urban inhabitants at risk. Hence cities are part of the problem\, but at the same time they possess a huge potential to become vital parts and enablers of transformation processes. However\, literature remains largely theoretical and conceptual\, lacking actionable knowledge. Transformation literature is scattered and uses different frameworks\, or even refers to general transformation needs without the use of a definition or theory. So far\, there is no consensus at all around what such transformation actually should look like\, how it is defined\, implemented or evaluated. Based on a systematic literature survey on urban sustainability transformation this presentation therefore seeks to provide a comprehensive overview on the understanding(s) of transformation in urban contexts\, as well as related frameworks and theories. Transformation case studies from cities across the globe given in the publications are assessed regarding the sectors mentioned\, actors involved\, and actions taken. In addition\, key barriers and enablers of urban transformation are identified to allow for conclusions on how transformation can succeed. Thereby the presentation seeks to contribute to both advancing research as well as facilitating practical implementation of transformation. \nThe transformative power of art to inspire\, activate and sustain behaviour change \nTania Vachon \nResilient water\, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) systems must go beyond building or rehabilitating water infrastructure. Despite billions of dollars invested in WASH infrastructure\, ​one​​ in ​three​​ people globally lack access to safe water\, sanitation and hygiene services due to a continued failure to invest in the systems underpinning their service delivery​​.​1​ It is increasingly clear that sustainable change will only happen if user needs and desires are centered in the development of these systems. And what do humans do? They behave following rules dictated by societal and systemic norms and values. As such\, behavioural changes are needed to start and maintain WASH systems. Supporting local artists in communities plays an instrumental role in WASH system change. Through their deep connection to the local context\, through their imagination and creativity\, they generate a fun and enabling environment\, ​translating complex and often taboo issues ​in​to accessible formats that inspire\, activate and sustain change. They bridge the art with the non-art and\, by doing so\, become the mediators of individual and collective change. Projects implemented in the field give social artists a platform to drive collective intelligence: train\, explore\, elaborate\, innovate and share their experiences\, learnings and insights so that others can apply them and install an iterative process of innovation and knowledge. ​​​​​​This profoundly changes power relationships amongst actors of the development sector\, it contributes to reducing discrimination and stigma. We have data to demonstrate great results in Latin America (5 countries) as well as in health care centers in Burkina Faso and communities and schools in Mali. The results from those projects bring very interesting and challenging questions to the development sector overall by introducing decolonized methodologies that recognize the auto-determination of peoples\, the notion of endogenous individual choice and community-led evaluations. \nTransformative Innovation in Urban Climate Resilience: HydroSKIN Façade for Rainwater Retention and Evaporative Cooling\nChristina Sina Eisenbarth \nExtreme heat and heavy rainfall events affect urban architecture with considerable personal injuries and material damage on buildings and infrastructure. While social developments lead to increasing urban densification\, surface sealing\, and the construction of high-rise buildings\, the effects of climate change urgently require the creation of more infiltration and buffer surfaces. Building envelopes cover a considerable part of the urban exterior surfaces\, and therefore have a significant leverage effect on the climate resilience and sustainability of buildings and cities. HydroSKIN represents a revolutionary façade element for rainwater retention and evaporative cooling. The lightweight textile skin collects the wind-driven rainwater hitting the building façade. Use of the harvested rainwater inside the building e.g.\, for toilet flushing and plant irrigation aims to a reduction of fresh water and energy consumption. In heat periods water is released by HydroSKIN to cool the interior and exterior environment by evaporation. The aim is a drastic reduction of urban inundation and heat risks by relieving the sewage infrastructure and providing natural microclimate regulation with a minimal amount of embedded mass\, energy\, and CO2 emissions. Due to its lightweight system design\, the façade add-on element is suitable for both new and existing building façades. The core element of HydroSKIN is a so-called spacer fabric\, which consists of two textile layers that are kept apart by threads and so are well ventilated. The high rate of air circulation facilitates the evaporation of water and enhances the cooling effect of the facade. On the outside\, the spacer fabric is covered by a water-permeable textile layer\, which allows almost all raindrops to penetrate and at the same time protects the fabric from impurities. A film on the inside drains the water into the lower thread system.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/online-panel-transformative-innovations/
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Systems sensing for individual and collective transformation: building capacities to be with what is and foster partnership across sector and place
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Luea Ritter\, Nancy Zamierowski\, Johann-Justus Wachs\n\n\nWe offer systems sensing (Ritter & Zamierowski\, 2021) as a practice to foster transformative leadership culture and partnership across sectors and places. Systems sensing can be understood as including a visceral aptitude involving the felt senses\, intuition\, and emotions that draw on innate human capacities for being in relation with\, listening deeply to\, and momentarily embodying systems elements. The participatory inquiry-based practice widens ways we know and enhances and builds individual and collective capacities to become sensitive to underlying patterns\, acknowledge and be with what is\, and better relate to ourselves\, each other\, and the wider context we share.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/systems-sensing-for-individual-and-collective-transformation-building-capacities-to-be-with-what-is-and-foster-partnership-across-sector-and-place/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Online Panel: Transformative Learning & Paradigms
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Federico Robledo\, Thieu Besselink\, Lindsay K. Campbell\, Stefan Partelow \nPresentations \nCo-production of knowledge to facilitate access to climate information: the case of Argentina My Climate Risk Hub\nFederico Robledo \nScientific institutions have a strategic role in generating knowledge and capacities based on the definition of social and environmental public policies\, since they impact the daily life of the community and its territory. The comprehensive and regional approach plays an extremely important role in the search for resolution of these issues. However\, it is a challenge to generate climate information at a local scale with decision makers. The World Climate Research Programme lighthouse activity My Climate Risk (MCR) aims at developing and mainstreaming a bottom-up approach to regional and local climate risk to construct climate information that is fit for integration in decision making. MCR uses principally a case study approach and is organized in a non-hierarchical way in a network of communities of practice\, fostering dynamic\, exploratory and transdisciplinary environments. One year after the kick-off of MCR there are eleven formalized communities of practice or “Regional Hubs” around the world. These Hubs comprise a variety of forms and modes of operation depending on the local interests and needs. The MCR Argentina Regional Hub (https://sites.google.com/view/mcrhubconicet) is constituted by researchers\, university students and educators from different disciplines such as Anthropology\, Biology\, Climatology\, Engineering and Physics. The participants are involved in different research projects aimed at promoting co-production to address local socio-economic challenges. The Argentinean Hub focuses on local communities and the public sector. Some of our projects have already co-produced knowledge and co-designed climate services with users\, such as the development of a community rainfall monitoring network\, the co-design of a smartphone application and co-production of a week-2 rainfall probabilistic prediction tool for small farmers activities within the framework of the CLIMAX project. Another of our projects\, Anticipando la Crecida\, has generated maps of flood impacts in vulnerable neighborhoods from dialogue with the local community. \nTransformative learning and multi-stakeholder impact though bioregional regeneration\nThieu Besselink \nUsing the case of the RegioLab for the ecological infrastructure of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region\, we explore an approach to bioregional regeneration at the intersection between the city and surrounding rural polders. Part of the lab is a summer school of the Regenerative Regions Program (A collaboration of the Aliance between Utrecht University\, Wageningen University and Eindhoven Technical University) where students of multiple universities contribute to the process. In this interactive session we will share the lab approach and work with students and participants of the session on the essential questions of the regeneration process. Other topics are the role of education and transformative learning in processes of bioregion regeneration\, giving voice to the land\, and diversity in languages and scales.\nThe Regiolab works on an ecological corridor of about 6000 ha\, at more than 5 meter below sea level\, with many competing interests and governmental scales\, and an increasing pressure on the little available land. The RegioLab weaves together grassroots organisation\, national\, regional\, and local government\, nature and water management organisations\, academia\, artists\, and farmers to find regenerative practices at the various scales. \nStewardship Salons: Sharing artistic ways of knowing and biocultural approaches to transform urban natural resources management\nLindsay K. Campbell \nTransformation of urban natural resources management requires engagement with a diversity of worldviews and practices related to land and place. Yet\, currently a narrow set of discourses and practices informed by positivist science and legacies of colonial land relations tend to dominate the field. Further\, the natural resources sector lacks sufficient diversity in staff and volunteers. How can practitioners and researchers meaningfully connect with and be informed by different ways of seeing\, knowing\, and valuing the work of caring for urban ecosystems? Stewardship Salons are envisioned as non-hierarchical gatherings where everyone has the ability to be a teacher and a learner. This approach was first inspired by an exchange between NYC-based practitioners and Native Hawaiian educators and practitioners in 2017 (McMillen et al. 2020). Since then\, partners from US Forest Service and NYC Parks based at the NYC Urban Field Station have organized outdoor\, experiential salons that engage land managers\, artists\, educators\, researchers\, and practitioners in learning from place and each other (Campbell et al. 2021). Whether taking the form of a walk\, a talk\, or an embodied practice\, salons are co-created experiences rooted in dialogue and co-learning. This article draws upon participant observation and program evaluation data to share our salon approach. Salons have been led by Tribal members\, performance and visual artists\, community activists and stewards\, and different cultural and religious groups – all of whom are part of the social-ecological systems of NYC. We discuss the value of creating spaces for reflection\, professional development that fully engages personal lived experience\, and amplifying frequently untold narratives about urban ecosystems. We seek to further articulate and share artistic and embodied ways of knowing and biocultural stewardship practices that treat natural resources as cultural resources for pathways towards more inclusive approaches to the land rooted in reciprocity and care. \nA pluralistic ethical toolbox for sustainability science\nStefan Partelow \nSustainability science aims to co-produce knowledge together with society to guide intentional transformations. However\, there is a normative void in sustainability science. We argue that this void can best be navigated by a diverse ethical toolbox\, and the embedding of ethical principles into sustainability science processes. This is needed because the core tenets of sustainability science require addressing trade-offs at different stages of research and practice\, and the right decisions to make are often either unclear or context dependent. Key ethical concepts such consequentialism\, reason/deontological\, social contractualism and virtue ethics offer normative guides for navigating normative decision-making. A toolbox is needed\, because no single ethical concept is sufficient for all situations and all stages of sustainability science. Rather\, scholars and practitioners will be better equipped to deliver the ambitions of sustainability science when a knowledge base of ethical tools and the usefulness are available.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/online-panel-transformative-learning-knowledge-practices-2/
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY: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:Transformative Learning in Practice
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Justus Wachs\, Uri Yitzchak Noy Meir\n\nPresencing Stories – Sensing into deeper forms of organizational collaboration\nJustus Wachs\, Uri Yitzchak Noy Meir \nMany organizations tackle systemic crises while remaining “under-resourced\, fragmented and marginal” (Waddock et al.\, 2022\, p. 78). To increase the organizations’ transformative agency\, Waddock et al. (2022) call for the establishment of ‘Transformation Systems’\, where actors recognize themselves as part of an interconnected whole and develop shared narratives and action agendas. Many of those working in organizations have experienced glimpses of such transformative collaborations. Following Scharmer’s suggestion to learn “from the future as it emerges” (Scharmer\, 2008\, p.7)\, this session will use storytelling and embodied methods to explore such instances where participants experienced the profound potential of organizational collaboration.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/transformative-learning-in-practice/
LOCATION:Online Room 2
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230713T160000
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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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DTSTAMP:20260405T151328
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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:Conversation Café 2
DESCRIPTION:Facilitator: Tica Lubin
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/conversation-cafe-2/
LOCATION:Online Room 2
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230713T153000
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230713T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T151328
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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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