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SUMMARY:Online Online Opening Session
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Bruce Goldstein\, Julia Leventon\, Glenn Page\, Chris Riedy\, Nick Graham \nJoin us for the opening session of the sixth Transformations conference\, where scholars and practitioners from around the globe gather to exchange ideas and initiatives for fostering sustainable\, regenerative\, and equitable futures. We will hear from our main conference host in Sydney and discover how our global program aligns with the conference theme of “Transformative Partnerships for a Better World”\, as we take a collective moment to reflect on our motivations and intentions for the conference. \nWe will celebrate the Transformations Community’s 10th anniversary\, and we invite you to share what you’re celebrating in your own work. We will share how you can connect with like-minded individuals and take part in the diverse opportunities of this gathering that enhance our capacity to bring about positive transformations. This vibrant community is a hub of innovation and collaboration\, don’t miss it!
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/online-online-opening-session/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
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SUMMARY:Online Panel: Transformative Paradigms and Practices
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Bryan Jenkins\, J. David Tàbara\, Diego Galafassi\, Jessica Böhme \nPresentations: \nRegenerative sustainability and transformative pathways. A relational perspective.\nJ David Tàbara\, Diego Galafassi \nMoving towards net-positive regenerative development pathways requires a cultural shift in the way we think about human agency\, social-ecological systems and the relationships between both. In this talk\, I introduce a relational\, non-exemptionalist\, whole-life systems perspective to explore the possibilities of building the transformative conditions required to achieve a positive tipping point towards global regenerative sustainability. To do so\, first I suggest that current attempts aimed at theorising sustainability transformations would benefit from a perspective that sees humans -and their organisations and societies- as coupled social-ecological systems. Acknowledging that we live in the environment as much as the environment lives inside each of us helps us to see ourselves and the world around us as a continuum of embodied life forms socially mediated by: social norms and institutions (S)\, the consumption of energy and natural resources (E)\, information and knowledge systems (I) and increasing cumulative and depletive global environmental changes (C). Then\, I argue that creating the conditions for the emergence of positive tipping points toward regenerative futures may be possible\, albeit not necessarily likely; and this may occur whenever multiplicative synergies between the restoration and net improvement of social and biophysical capitals are deliberately triggered across multiple scales and domains of agency. \nA relation paradigm to rethink inner and outer transformation in the Anthropocene\nJessica Böhme \nTo respond to the challenges of the Anthropocene\, scholars from various disciplines increasingly emphasize that a mere outer transformation is insufficient and that we also need an inner transformation that addresses deep leverage points. Yet\, the open questions are how the inner and outer dimensions relate to each other and how inner transformation might lead to outer transformation. How we attempt to answer these questions is determined by our dominant paradigm. Paradigms define how we understand and shape the world\, and thus\, they define how we conceptualize challenges\, such as inner and outer transformation. Various authors argue that the dominant paradigm\, which is characterized by reductionism\, empiricism\, dualism\, and determinism\, might be a root cause for insufficiently addressing sustainability challenges. As an alternative\, many argue for a relational paradigm\, which understands complex phenomena in terms of constitutive processes and relations. A relational paradigm might offer possibilities to reconceptualize inner and outer transformation in the Anthropocene and might shed new light on how to integrate both in sustainability science. Yet\, it’s still being determined how a relational paradigm can contribute to the understanding of inner and outer transformations towards sustainability in the Anthropocene. Therefore\, this oral presentation’s overarching scope is to generate insights into and exploring possibilities of a relational paradigm for inner and outer transformation in the Anthropocene. As a conclusion\, inner and outer transformation in the Anthropocene can be reconceptualized as paradigm-ing relationality in the Ecocene. “Paradigm-ing” as an active verb\, reconceptualizes inner and outer transformation into ontologies\, epistemologies\, ethics\, and socialecological realities that are ongoing\, nonhierarchical\, nonlinear\, dynamic\, co-creative processes of intra-action. The Ecocene decenters the human and attends to what we might be able to intra-act and become-with. These insights can offer unexplored perspectives to address sustainability challenges and increase our capacities to respond in novel ways. \nThe Transformation Process as an Adaptive Cycle illustrated by Recovery from Desertification in Shinyanga\nBryan Jenkins \nThe presentation delineates a framework for social-ecological system assessment and transformation based on Holling’s adaptive cycle. It considers assessments of disturbance beyond the biophysical system capacity to recover. The transformation process for recovery is depicted as an adaptive cycle of using human and economic resources (exploitation phase)\, accumulating knowledge as well as social\, cultural and economic capital (accumulation phase)\, formulating new approaches to biophysical system management (disturbance phase)\, and developing new institutional arrangements (reorganisation phase). The transformation process leads to the implementation of management interventions for the biophysical system. Interventions relate to the four phases of the biophysical system adaptive cycle: (1) reducing pressure on the resource (exploitation phase)\, (2) addressing legacy issues (accumulation phase)\, (3) increasing system resilience (disturbance phase)\, and (4) rehabilitating adverse effects (reorganisation phase). In Shinyanga\, Tanzania\, before colonial occupation there were intact Miombo and Acacia woodlands. Woodland clearance to eradicate tsetse fly and expand agriculture led to soil erosion and desertification. Centralised attempts at restoration by colonial government and subsequently the independent government failed to be implemented. When a new centralised programme was established in 1986 the program manager found he needed to work in partnership with local farmers and incorporate traditional knowledge and institutions to be effective. The traditional practice of ngitili enclosures (areas of standing vegetation that remain closed to livestock during the wet season to be used as fodder resources during the dry season) was integrated with modern agroforestry techniques. A nested system of village\, regional and national institutions was created\, and international financial contributions were received. Restoration of woodlands was achieved\, and other ecosystem services increased\, such as wood supply\, bringing economic benefits and improving biodiversity. Sustainability analysis identified disturbance threats to be managed for ongoing sustainability such as population growth\, elite capture of benefits\, and rule compliance by neighbouring villages.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/online-panel-transformative-paradigms-and-practices/
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Measuring collective impacts of community-led sustainability initiatives
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tim Strasser \nThis session will explore together with other practitioners\, evaluators and academics how the distributed and highly diverse movement of community-led sustainability initiatives (that ECOLISE is seeking to steward\, enable\, and catalyse) can tell better stories of the collective impacts they can potentially have and are already making. That is in order to build stronger recognition among mainstream policy\, academia\, and civil society of the role communities have to play in bringing about more desirable\, thriving\, and just futures. But also to mirror back to the movement what impacts they are or could be having and what might be blocking their transformative potential. A review of existing research and impact evaluations will be used as a conversation starter for this session\, in order to explore how to better measure and narrate the existing and potential impacts of community-led initiatives\, and what might be needed to do that.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/measuring-collective-impacts-of-community-led-sustainability-initiatives/
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SUMMARY:Online Panel: Transformative Leadership
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Simon Beaudoin\, Christopher Ives\, Angela Moriggi\, Michael Bernstein\, Per Olsson\n\nPresentations:\n\nSynergies for transformations\nSimon BeaudoinFifty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE)\, a comprehensive environmental governance architecture is still needed. This article investigates the potential for adapting policies to synergies among socio-ecological issues. Aiming to identify promising avenues for transformative change\, it presents lenses through which adapted governance arrangements across sectors can be crafted. The guiding question of the research asks How can interdependent social and environmental issues be governed synergistically? Seeking to move beyond inconsistencies\, dreadlocks\, fragmentation\, and overlaps in global environmental governance\, it argues in favour of a comprehensive approach to the governance of socio-ecological issues. Through multidisciplinary lenses\, the paper offers pragmatic pathways toward governing synergies among social and ecological spheres and building adapted governance architecture. I first identify key connections stretching across the Earth System and societies. Second\, I identify interdependencies and overlaps between areas where integrated and coordinated governance arrangements could prove beneficial. Third\, building on the notion of synergies\, I propose a framework for their integration. Based on the analysis of international\, national\, and local realities and programs\, I show that synergies can be harnessed under a comprehensive multi-level framework\, within common timeframes\, and lead to concerted actions. This paper brings together the theoretical and empirical insights of the last decades of research in social and natural sciences to develop governance architectures that work ‘beyond silos’. It closes with the investigation of how governing synergies could help achieve collective goals. Ultimately\, it aims to support the work underway to deploy and support solutions to contemporary socio-ecological issues. Keywords: Synergies; Transformations; Governance Architecture; Policy Synergies; Socio-ecological issues; Policy mixes; Policy integration; Multidisciplinarity. \nSustainability in a turbulent future: A horizon scan of necessary leadership capabilities\nChristopher Ives \nIn the context of impending climate breakdown and ecosystem collapse\, future scenarios are often framed as two possible pathways: system ‘breakdown’ where planetary thresholds are transgressed or ‘breakthrough’ where societies are reoriented towards sustainability. However\, growing evidence highlights interactions that may accelerate feedbacks among phenomena such as climate extremes\, crop failure\, energy stress and geopolitical conflict. To date\, there has been scant consideration of the kind of leadership that will be required to guide future action in this context of accelerating ecological\, socio-cultural and political turbulence. This study aimed to address this gap through an interview-based horizon scanning exercise to explore (1) what mental models of the future do environmental practitioners possess? (2) what challenges to leading change may emerge with increasing uncertainty and turbulence? and (3) what skills and competencies may be required to deliver effective change in 2040? While horizon scanning has been widely used to anticipate future trends or events\, this study innovatively applies it to capacities for leading change. 28 members of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) from various professional contexts were interviewed by students from University of Nottingham in March 2023. Thematic coding of transcripts was employed to elicit key insights\, and deliberative discussion amongst students and IEMA staff used to distil core challenges for future sustainability leadership. Results showed that environmental professionals displayed limited awareness of future global systemic complexities and how these may challenge current leadership norms. In many instances there was a disconnection between personal visions of the future and current professional practices. Anticipatory competence for sustainability (c.f. Wiek et al.\, 2011) therefore must be extended to include future practical responses. There is an urgent need to translate insights from global sustainability science to practical leadership. Communities of practice such as IEMA will be vital in this endeavour.\n\nCross-sectoral partnerships & knowledge co-production to activate regenerative place-based mindsets in youth\nAngela Moriggi \nYoung people are key stakeholders in the sustainable transformations of any territory\, and yet often left out of planning and decision-making processes. Youth engagement is crucial not only to voice ideas and desires\, but also to enhance knowledge and skills\, including the capacity to think and act in regenerative ways. This is especially needed in rural areas affected by marginalization\, depopulation\, ecological degradation\, and socio-economic decay\, amongst others issues. Such processes often push young people away from their territories\, in search of “better” opportunities in urban centres. This presentation focuses on a partnership established amongst inter-disciplinary scholars at the University of Padova and a local Foundation (Fondazione Angelini – Centre for Mountain Studies) active in a rural area in the Italian South-Eastern Alps\, within the context of two concurrent (2022-2024) projects: VERVE and RIGENERA MONTAGNA. Both projects aim to enhance young people’s awareness around key sustainability topics\, including biodiversity loss and conservation\, sustainable water management\, place-based regeneration\, rural areas abandonment and rewilding processes\, and the climate crises. We combine scientific and technical knowledge with emotional and embodied approaches\, to elicit participants’ sense of place\, care\, and agency. To do so\, we experiment with innovative creative\, visual\, and experiential methods (also outdoor)\, engaging youth between 16 and 30 years of age. In the presentation\, we focus on a series of Creative Labs that combine the use of Photo-Voice with nature-based experiential and somatic exercises. We introduce the conceptual framework guiding the activities\, which aims to activate “regenerative mindsets”\, understood here as ways of thinking\, beliefs\, and assumptions that value the interconnections between humans and non-humans\, and that inform practices for the well-being and thriving of both. We also provide key insights regarding the process of knowledge co-production undergoing between the actors engaged in the partnership\, highlighting crucial enabling and dis-enabling factors. \nRe-imagining “Societal Readiness” in Research and Innovation Policy for Transformation\nMichael Bernstein \nAn increasing concern of research and innovation (R&I) policy in Europe\, in the context of the twin green and digital transitions\, is to ensure scientific\, technological\, and social innovations do not undermine transformation for sustainability. There has been increasing attention to aligning R&I to similar ends across European R&I policy Framework Programmes. One may observe the success of such efforts over the long-term\, for example\, with gender equality—started in Framework Programme 5\, and now\, several decades later\, an eligibility requirement for all organizations seeking European Research funding in Framework Programme 9 (although still far from fully realized). In Framework Programme 8 (H2020)\, the predominant character of efforts to center societal concerns could be found in the “societal challenges” funding pillar\, as well as a cross-cutting set of concerns: “responsible research and innovation” (RRI). Responsible research and innovation sought to enhance a general regard of and care for future social and environmental impacts of research. As a cross-cutting investment in H2020\, almost 500 million Euro went toward building RRI community\, methods\, and toolkits. Implementation of RRI\, however\, faced numerous challenges\, from being obscure and siloed\, to overly fixated on projects\, rather than research agendas or Framework Programmes themselves. Now in Framework Programme 9\, RRI has been “mainstreamed” (i.e.\, discontinued)\, and there is increasing talk about an initiative related the “societal readiness” of R&I. Challenges with current thinking about societal readiness include: homogenized views of society; linear thinking equating “readiness” with “acceptability”; an under-theorization of how readiness is moderated by various social phenomena (e.g.\, trust\, legitimacy\, etc.); and falling prey to the pitfalls of operationalizing “readiness” in the same manner as RRI without learning from failures. In this presentation\, I invite a reimagining of “societal readiness” in R&I and discuss the potential of this policy idiom for sustainability transformations. \nOlsson\nPer Olsson
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/online-panel-transformative-leadership/
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SUMMARY:Online Panel: Transformative Learning & Knowledge Practices
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Nithin Kuriakose\, Sam Buckton\, Julia Bentz\, Anita Lazurko\, Tani Khara \nPresentations \nNavigating Transitions: Exploring Emerging Design Attitudes forPluriverse\nNithin Kuriakose\n\nWhy do more complex problems arise the more we design? What are the design attitudes for societal transitions? How are they connected? This study explores why we need better design interventions and also evaluates\, differentiates and simplifies the contemporary design attitudes that are shaped across the globe in the last decades that helps in solving complex or wicked problems for a better future. It also tries to find commonalities and differences between Ontological design\, Speculative design\, Pluriversal design and Transition design as approaches and links its connectedness to Pluriversal Thinking. \nThe Regenerative Lens: A conceptual framework for regenerative social-ecological systems\nSam Buckton \nSocieties must be transformed from degenerative patterns to those that support the flourishing of life. This will require significant shifts beyond technological and behavioural change and which include changes in systemic structures\, patterns and dynamics and the beliefs\, values and paradigms that underpin them. While interest in regenerative systems is growing\, there is still limited cohered understanding of what constitutes such systems at social-ecological scales. This presentation introduces a new conceptual\, cross-disciplinary and action-oriented framework\, produced through a wide cross-disciplinary literature review and testing ideas with groups of researchers. Emerging from this process are four key insights about what constitutes regenerative social-ecological systems or what would be required within approaches seeking to bring about regenerative dynamics. The framework emphasises that to be regenerative\, a system (e.g. household\, community\, city or region) needs to: (1) support the wellbeing of both itself and the wider system of which it is a part\, such that internal and external wellbeing are mutually reinforcing; (2) foster such dynamics especially between humans and wider ecological systems; (3) embody an ecological worldview in which people and wider nature are considered interconnected and inseparable; and (4) uphold four core qualities of mutualism\, high diversity\, agency for humans and non-humans to act regeneratively\, and continuous reflexivity. The framework can be applied as a lens to help create ambitious and imaginative ideas of what might be desired from successful transformation\, help maintain transformational intent in change initiatives\, and guide the development of transformational forms of evaluation. \nThe making of “Creative Approaches to Climate and Peace Education: An educator’s guide to using storytelling and art“\nJulia Bentz \nEver more complex global issues require new and possibly different competences on the part of the younger generation and demand that teachers\, practitioners\, and lecturers constantly adapt their teaching methods and contents to a changing world. But what kind of approaches help teachers and practitioners to navigate these complexities in a learning setting? How does one engage young people with climate change\, perceived by many as complex\, and at the same time contributing to growing feelings of sadness\, hopelessness\, and anxiety among them? How can we as educators create and nurture a culture of peace in and around us while conflict continues to dominate the news? The idea of an educators’ guidebook using storytelling and art emerged from a creative process at the Summer Conference of the Georg Arnhold Program on Education for Sustainable Peace in August 2021. The event brought together researchers engaged in education for sustainability and peace from contexts. The exchange of knowledge and experience catalyzed several insights\, including the importance of developing more creative resources for climate change and peace education\, especially material integrating the two areas. Storytelling is an emerging tool which can create learning spaces where both storytellers and listeners can engage in deeper learning and where transformative change can happen. The created open-access book addresses the power of stories and art for learning about the global challenges via five themes: Hope and Imagination\, Many Meanings of Peace\, Healing Trauma and Creating Resilience Connection and Community\, and Learning as a Journey. Each of these sections illustrates how stories can support the learning process\, integrates personal stories and provides resources for practical application and further reading. It is meant to be a helpful and hopeful guide for colleagues such as teachers\, practitioners\, and action researchers to address global challenges in their classes and workshops. \nOperationalizing ambiguity in sustainability research: Addressing the elephant in the room\nAnita Lazurko \nScenarios are increasingly popular tools for anticipating and navigating change in sustainability research and practice. However\, scenario practice currently lacks the reflexivity required to a) critically reflect upon how choices made in the design of a scenario process influences scenario outcomes\, and b) enrich these choices to produce scenarios that reflect the dynamics of change in complex social-ecological systems (SES)\, including transformation. This gap presents risks to the salience and legitimacy of scenarios\, especially given the need to anticipate the complex and potentially transformative changes that humanity may experience in the 21st century. The objective of this study was to develop and validate a reflexive framework that 1) characterizes how key boundary judgments (i.e.\, choices that delineate what is included or excluded from a system) involved in a scenario process influence the scope of future potential reflected in scenario outcomes\, and 2) proposes the degree to which this scope of future potential may reflect the dynamics of\, and/or conditions for\, SES change. A process of abductive inquiry in seminal literatures related to scenario practice and sustainability research\, in addition to 72 social-ecological scenario case studies\, produced the final framework (Boundaries of the Future). The framework is comprised of ten boundary judgments under categories of framing (e.g.\, epistemological lens)\, methodology (e.g.\, degree of formalization)\, and characterization (e.g.\, scale). The most expansive choice under each judgment enriches scenarios to consider the potential for transformation. Analysis of the 72 case studies used to develop the framework exhibits a bias away from transformative scenarios under some judgments. In sum\, this study introduces a practical tool and research agenda to demystify and enrich scenario practice in sustainability science\, particularly under increasing to reflexively ‘open up’ scenarios to the novel conditions of transformation.Ambiguity is widely recognized as an intrinsic aspect of addressing complex sustainability challenges. Nevertheless\, in the practice of transdisciplinary sustainability research\, ambiguity is often an ‘elephant in the room’ to be either side-stepped or reduced rather than explicitly mobilized. These responses threaten the salience and legitimacy of sustainability research by masking the pluralism of real-world sustainability challenges and the ways in which research renders certain frames visible or invisible. This risk is relevant to transformation\, which emerges from novel framings that are often marginalized. Critical systems thinking (CST) grew out of the efforts of operational researchers to develop appreciation of both theoretical and practical aspects of ambiguity. Thus\, we adapted key frameworks and lessons from CST literature to establish 1) a holistic conceptualization of ambiguity and 2) recommendations on how to operationalize ambiguity as a valuable (and potentially transformative) means of addressing sustainability challenges. We conceptualize ambiguity as: an emergent feature of the simultaneous and interacting boundary processes associated with being\, knowing\, and intervening in complex systems. This characterization 1) acknowledges the boundary of a researcher’s subjective orientation and its influence on how ambiguity is exposed and mediated (being)\, 2) characterizes knowledge as produced through the process of making boundary judgments\, generating a partial\, contextual\, and provisional frame (knowing)\, and 3) situates a researcher as part of the complexity they seek to interpret\, rendering any boundary process as a form of intervention that reinforces or marginalizes certain frames (intervening). We suggest reflexivity as a crucial capacity for transdisciplinary researchers to navigate persistent ambiguity and play an enabling role in transformation. We draw from CST literature and four case study reflections to offer the novel framework of ‘reflexive boundary critique’ to guide critical reflection on ambiguity\, or the ‘elephant in the room’\, at all stages of the research process. \nThe transformative role of ‘Voluntary Simplicity’ in encouraging meat reduction in urban India\nTani Khara \nToday\, in many parts of urban India\, consumption has moved beyond its utilitarian function of serving essential human needs. Consumption has become a status symbol\, and the pursuit of social classism has encouraged increasing levels of conspicuous consumption. When it comes to food\, meat tends to be viewed as a status symbol. Changing cultural practices have encouraged the emergence of high-end meat shops in India’s major urban centres\, where different meats symbolise status. Meat’s association with status\, novelty and progress is why meat consumption is rapidly increasing which also makes India one of the world’s fastest growing markets in its consumption of meat. Given the environmental and ethical impacts of meat\, encouraging sustainable dietary practices in the world’s most populous country is necessary. This paper explores how ‘Voluntary Simplicity’ (VS) can help encourage sustainable dietary practices in India. VS is where an individual willingly opts to reduce their material consumption. Research\, among mainly Western consumers\, has highlighted that awareness of the socio-environmental impacts of consumption choices has helped encourage practices like minimising food waste\, buying local and ‘buycotting’ preferred goods and companies. While this topic remains underresearched in India\, there is encouraging evidence for the potential for VS given long-standing Brahmin and Gandhian practices of simplicity and the Buddhist concept of ‘ahimsa’ which continue to make vegetarianism a popular dietary choice. On the other hand\, young urban Indians are moving away from perceived traditional values of simplicity and collectivism\, and are increasingly looking for ways to assert their identity and uniqueness. Against this changing urban backdrop\, vegetarianism is also considered utilitarian while non-vegetarian foods represent symbols of modernity and high-class status. This paper will go deeper into opportunities and challenges for VS when it comes to encouraging transformation among contemporary urban Indian eating practices.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/online-panel-transformative-learning-knowledge-practices/
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SUMMARY:State of the Field: Systems Education
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bruce Goldstein\, Jayne Bryant\, Marilyn Mehlmann\, Debbi Brock\n\n\n\nPanel discussion of the state of the field of systems education and the opportunities for developing its reach and impact \nEducation for Sustainability Leadership – Supporting and Empowering Agents for Sustainability Transformations\nJayne Bryant \nThe global challenges of our time are unprecedented and urgent action for transformation is needed of our systems\, policies\, institutions and our ways of thinking. Education of sustainability leaders is a key leverage points to achieve this and it is our worldviews\, paradigms and ways of being\, doing and thinking that have created our systems and structures and therefore transformative learning and leadership development that addresses this is key. In this relatively new field\, practitioners and educators grapple with what best promotes sustainability leadership development\, and with what competencies\, capacities and transformative outcomes educators should be aiming to develop. How do we best design and operate learning experiences that truly build capacity for leadership for sustainability? As an educator and facilitator of sustainability work for over a decade\, working at the crossroads of education for sustainability leadership; organisational and community change\, lecturing on leadership for sustainability in Australia and currently being Co-Director of the Master’s in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS) program in Sweden\, I have rested this PhD thesis firmly within an action-oriented transformations research paradigm in which the only way to understand a system is through a comprehensive attempt to change it. Seven cases of sustainability leadership education are presented in this compilation thesis. Methods include surveys with open questions; workshops; interviews; document analysis; field notes and one case is an ethnography of a bureaucracy undergoing an organisational change program in a local government in Perth\, Western Australia and the learning and policy interventions that supported this change. The aim of this work was to establish an improved understanding of this and to find recommendations for practitioners and educators with ambitions to create systems change for sustainability by building the capacity of people to be sustainability leaders.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/state-of-the-field-systems-education/
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Thinking about the future with mind and body: combining the Three Horizons method and Theatre of the Oppressed techniques in sustainability transformations research
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno\, María D. López-Rodríguez \nOur session will focus on showing how transdisciplinary processes for imagining sustainable futures can be improved by combining conventional research approaches to knowledge co-creation (e.g.\, mental models and conceptual diagrams) with art-based research methods\, specifically Theatre of the Oppressed techniques. We seek to spark the discussion about the advantages and potential limitations of employing such a combination of methods to engage stakeholders in sustainability transformations. The insights will shed light on how coupling conventional cognitive tools with art-based techniques can help expand conventional epistemologies towards practical\, embodied\, and emotional domains in transdisciplinary and transformations research.
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SUMMARY:State of the Field: Transformations Evaluation and Assessment
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Glenn Page\, Mark Cabaj\, Kate McKegg\, Mutizwa Mukute\, Ian Goldman\, Michael Quinn Patton\, Bruce Goldstein\n\n\nPlease join six of the global leaders in assessment in evaluation on Tuesday July 11th 14-15:30 CEST online – for an engaging dialogue on the current state of the practice of assessment and evaluation as applied to large scale transformation. Moderators Glenn Page and Michael Quinn Patton will welcome panelists from Africa\, Australasia and the Americas to discuss the pressing need to both evaluate transformation and transform evaluation to do so. The expertise and global/local perspectives on this panel are immense and will be relevant to all practitioners and researchers concerned with adaptive learning in the Anthropocene Polycrisis.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/state-of-the-field-transformations-evaluation-and-assessment/
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SUMMARY:State of the Field: Financing Systemic Transformation:  An emerging field
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Johan Schot\, Magdalena Schneider\, Steve Waddell\, Bruce Goldstein\n\n\nFinancing the transformation needed to respond to today’s polycrisis is grossly inadequate in scale and the processes to connect finance to systemic change work are almost non-existent.  Current approaches to financing – philanthropic\, governmental and private – are largely unaligned with the needs associated with financing transformational solutions. The CoP27 President’s final statement called for “a transformation of the financial system and its structures and processes.”1 In short\, the financing systems themselves require deep systemic change.2 \nIn response to this need\, thought and practice innovators are creating fundamentally new approaches to financing systemic transformation.  Today\, they can be considered an emerging new field of finance and a strategy to fundamentally change the core logics of finance.  They reflect the understanding that transforming a powerful system cannot be done through piecemeal strategies. History demonstrates that such an approach is easily co-opted. Rather\, successful new systems are required that can displace the traditional powerhouses. \nThis panel will provide insight into the development of the field and its distinctive qualities.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/state-of-the-field-financing-systemic-transformation-an-emerging-field/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230711T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230711T170000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035134
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SUMMARY:Conversation Café
DESCRIPTION:Facilitator: Peter Wells
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/conversation-cafe/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230711T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230711T183000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035134
CREATED:20230607T113006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230630T204809Z
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SUMMARY:State of the Field: Network Leadership Development
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bruce Goldstein\, Russ Gaskin\, Brendon Johnson\, Liz Weaver\, Nono Sekhoto\, Kerstin Tebbe\n\n\nPanel discussion of the field of network leadership development
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/state-of-the-field-network-leadership-development/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230711T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230711T183000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035134
CREATED:20230607T113215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230619T164947Z
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Climate conversations workshop: facts\, connection\, hope\, action
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Etrit Shkreli\, Katherine Palmer\, Manon Doran\n\nThis interactive\, thought-provoking\, and action-oriented workshop centers around the question: ‘As individuals\, what can we do about climate change?’ Our goal is to create momentum for collaboration and transform awareness into effective and tangible steps. We will all face challenges\, so let us rediscover our shared humanity – and the realization that we all have within us the wisdom to help each other. Through focused engagement with our peers\, we become aware of patterns and discover solutions that were previously hidden from view. We practice listening and clarifying while asking for and offering help in a respectful and generous space.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/t-practice-workshop-climate-conversations-workshop-facts-connection-hope-action/
LOCATION:Online Room 2
CATEGORIES:Online
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230711T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230711T193000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035134
CREATED:20230607T113137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230619T165229Z
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Social System Mapping as a Transformative Process
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jim Best\n\nWe live in a world of resilient complex adaptive social systems. Transformation in this realm requires tools of requisite complexity\, a cognitive shift from systems-as-machines to systems-as-organisms\, and a relational shift from ego-networks to eco-networks. Social system mapping is a powerful way to interact with\, and perceive\, systems. It is a community-engaging design practice formulating and visualizing personal and connection questions based on the collective’s theory of change. The dynamically-updated map facilitates collective sense-making\, helping communities to better achieve their purposes and assess change interventions. This workshop dives into the theory\, taps into audience experience\, and demonstrates actual maps.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/social-system-mapping-as-a-transformative-process/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230711T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230711T203000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035134
CREATED:20230607T113246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230619T165311Z
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SUMMARY:Meditation: 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-compassion-for-oneself-others-and-the-world/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T100000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035134
CREATED:20230607T091115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230704T050426Z
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SUMMARY:Headliner: How do we draw on diverse sources of knowledge within transformative partnerships?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Ioan Fazey\, Petr Jehlicka\, Bruce Goldstein \nEast European households’ resource-use practices: Learning from the epistemic periphery\nPetr Jehlicka
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/headliner-how-do-we-draw-on-diverse-sources-of-knowledge-within-transformative-partnerships/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 206
CATEGORIES:Online,Prague
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T100000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035134
CREATED:20230607T113703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230619T165425Z
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SUMMARY:Reflections\, hopes and tensions in Contemporary Bioregioning: a forum for discussion
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sam Wearne\, Ella Hubbard\, Krisztina Jónás\, Maria Wilke\n\n\nOur research project has generated insights into how bioreigoining is emerging. It sheds light on a range of topics that we feel are of interest to a broad audience of sustainability researchers and practitioners. Specific insights that we’ll share in the first part of our session relate to the discourse and practice of bioregioning\, as we encountered it: 1) The concept of a ‘bioregion’ appears to motivate proponents in three ways: it inspires visions of the future that encompass more-than-human thriving\, creates a conceptual container that enables a strategic narrative for change\, and justifies the importance of everyday people exercising their right to “do” something. We’ll discuss these motivators and their resonance with conference participants. 2) Despite central similarities\, bioregioning appears to be patterned. Different perspectives about the state of the Earth System and different exposure to socio-ecological histories influence how bioregioning is expressed. We’ll host discussion about the practices bioregioning draws forth and the hopes and tensions they carry. 3) There is a long history of bioregional thought and action. As we encountered it\, bioregioining represents a Western scientific narrative for the hybridization of humanity’s place on Earth. This carries political\, ethical and practical complexities. We will use our presentation to provide some context to this observation\, and highlight some opportunities as well as tensions that the discourse of bioregioning carries. 4) We found parallels between our research process and central features in bioregioning; both respond to ambitions and calls to enact relational values and surface contextualised knowledge whilst valuing generalisations and abstraction. We’ll create a space for a reflexive discussion about knowledge creation in sustainability science\, and how relational values and contextualised knowledge engage with current norms. While our presentation will seek engagement\, each theme sets the basis for more detailed and open discussion in the break-out sessions.Our session will include: 1) A collaborative group presentation which outlines what we found about contemporary bioregioning from our research. We’ll include prompts\, questions and discussion about the tensions and hopes we encountered to engage participants about the findings. (20minutes) 2) We’ll then open 4 break out rooms organised by theme to dive deeper into specific topics and host an open discussion with participants (20minutes). The four themes are: (i) Relationality and context. Here\, we’ll invite discussions into the role of context and abstractions in knowledge production and research. This will include discussing what a place–conscious or scale–conscious approach might look like\, and what it might offer. (ii) “Practice” as if it’s “placed”. Bioregional thought has a long history of starting with the question ‘where the heck are you?’ In this breakout\, we’ll invite discussions about promising practices\, and the importance of cultural and ecological literacy as a premise for sustainability action. (iii) Critical reflexivity and debate. Here\, we’ll discuss the observations\, and tensions in bioregioning and how we might deal with them. We’ll dive deeper into bioregioning and what it represents in (Western) sustainability discourse\, opening the space for conversation amongst the cohort. (iv) Bioregioning as philosophy. Bioregioning draws forth fresh perspectives about knowledge\, ontology and epistemology. We see strands of connection to process-relational ontology. This space will dive into the prospects of more deeply considering what and how process-relational ontology (or other frameworks) might offer to proponents in bioregioning. 3) We’ll then return to the main room to exchange reflections and discussions about hopes\, tensions and opportunities that we see and have encountered through the session. (15minutes).Contemporary bioregionalism\, which we frame as Bioregioning\, is attracting increasing interest amongst sustainability researchers and practitioners that seek to reconnect society to nature in systematic and practical ways. Over the past two years we have undertaken a collaborative learning journey into Bioregioning through interviews with contemporary leaders and a reflexive research process. The process provided an opportunity for us to distill insights\, hopes\, and tensions into the movement\, as we encountered it\, drawing on experiences across seven countries. We propose to host an online session that creates space for a collaborative discussion and engagement with conference participants\, across all hubs\, to discuss the findings\, hopes\, tensions\, and practical opportunities from this research\, and for bioregioning more broadly. Our session will become generative and has been designed as a way to complement the conference design. Our session is targeted at the central conference. While our session aims to connect to the US Hub Discussion\, it provides an opportunity for a central\, trans-place discussion about bioregional thought and practice\, raising questions and sharing insights that are not only related to the US\, but also other localities\, such as perspectives from the contextualities of Europe\, South America\, Australian and United Kingdom. To support Glenn and the US community\, we’ll be available to contribute to the US Hub’s agenda if he would like to include a follow-up\, contextualised discussion with participants of that event.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/reflections-hopes-and-tensions-in-contemporary-bioregioning-a-forum-for-discussion/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T110000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035134
CREATED:20230607T093642Z
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SUMMARY:Facilitated Sessions
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/facilitated-session/
LOCATION:All Prague Rooms
CATEGORIES:Prague
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T113000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035134
CREATED:20230607T113745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230619T165549Z
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Reflect and Discuss Roles of Scientists in Sustainability Transformations
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Franziska Marfurt\, Sibylle Studer\n\n\nWhat is the role of research in sustainability transformations? Who acts as supporter\, critical friend\, integrator\, midwife\, … evidence provider? We believe that transformations gain effectiveness when roles are clarified. With the proposed practice we foster the capability to position oneself in a spectrum of roles. Furthermore\, we provide a vocabulary to advocate for an academic system which acknowledges that research may embody different/multiple roles to adequately contribute to societal challenges.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/reflect-and-discuss-roles-of-scientists-in-sustainability-transformations/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T130000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035134
CREATED:20230607T091352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230619T165721Z
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Connecting science to sustainability transformations: how to create transformative research?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Esther Turnhout (University of Twente)\, Josephine Chambers (Utrecht University) \nMany commentators lament the lack of action in response to evidence of environmental crises\, making reference to a broken science-policy contract (Turnhout and Lahsen 2022). In response\, we have seen calls to shift research priorities to the production of actionable knowledge. Although participatory approaches are on the rise (Chambers et al.)\, there has been no fundamental reprioritization of research-agendas to support transformative change. Reasons are related to the role vested interests in science and policy (Lahsen and Turnhout 2021) and a lack of alternative imaginaries for research and how it can connect to policy and society (Maas et al. 2022). \n 
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/t-practice-workshop-connecting-science-to-sustainability-transformations-how-to-create-transformative-research/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 205
CATEGORIES:Prague
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T130000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035134
CREATED:20230607T093926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230623T203816Z
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Assessing when Change is Transformative
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Fern Wickson\, Julia Leventon \nTransformative change is currently receiving much attention from science\, practice and science-policy interfaces. The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change 6th assessment (released 2022) refers to the need for societal transformation to mitigate and adapt to climate change\, and ensure climate resilient development. Further\, the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is currently performing a Transformative Change Assessment\, an appraisal and comparison of different visions\, theories\, scenarios\, and pathways for transformations towards a sustainable future. Such assessments aim to deliver relevant messages drawn from the basis of existing evidence to various types of decision-makers. They should therefore produce actionable\, readable outcomes that are useful to multiple beneficiaries. Part of the challenge to creating policy and society relevant\, actionable messages lies in being able to show what actions create transformative change; leading to the question of how we define\, measure and monitor transformative change towards which visions\, particularly as distinct from ongoing patterns of destruction of nature. \nIn this session\, we will facilitate a process of experience and idea sharing on the topic of assessing transformative change. We want to draw together ideas while exploring a range of questions relating to monitoring\, evaluating and assessing transformative change\, such as: \n\nWhat types of assessment approaches are available and useful for evaluating transformative changes in process?\nWhat do assessment approaches that provide clear and usable actions for policy makers and practitioners entail/require?\nHow can assessment and evaluation approaches balance a policy need for specific forms of evidence with the qualitative\, longer-term impacts and uncertainties of transformative change processes?\nHow could assessment approaches avoid forcing binary classifications of transformative vs not transformative change?\nWhat would evaluation approaches that encourage continued reflection\, learning and improvement amongst practitioners and policy makers look like?\nHow can the assessment and evaluation of transformative change be made feasible for practitioners and policy makers in practice?\n\nPlease join us with your ideas\, experiences and reflections!
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/t-practice-workshop-assessing-when-change-is-transformative/
LOCATION:Prague Room UN IC
CATEGORIES:Prague
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T130000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035134
CREATED:20230607T094151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230619T165821Z
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Co-creative reflection and dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Felix Beyers\, Carolin Fraude\, Valerie Voggenreiter\n\n\nHow can we confront and deal with fears while strengthening trust in the UN Climate Policy? Together with several partner organizations\, the TranS-Mind research group at the RIFS (former IASS) took a special interest in this question at COP27 in Egypt last year. The aim was designing and exploring (political) spaces that include and embrace the inner dimension of transformation. The aspiration here is to create space for reflection and to dive deeper into these personal states in order to explore their normative value in transformative research.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/t-practice-workshop-co-creative-reflection-and-dialogue/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 206
CATEGORIES:Prague
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T130000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035134
CREATED:20230607T112157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230706T155525Z
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SUMMARY:Creative Shiftwork: pluriversal\, multi-modal methods for the hard work of perspective-shifting
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lisa Grocott\, Mia Perry\, Sharifa Abdulla\, Reagan Kandole\, Alison Colwell-Matsuura \nThis panel will open up a dialogic and practical space for considering the affordances of creative methods when it comes to supporting people to shift their mental models\, worldviews\, beliefs and habits of mind. The shiftwork we will do together sits where the theme Transformative Learning and Knowledge Practices intersects with a practice of Inner Transformation. \nThe work of perspective-shifting is core to transformative practice\, and yet the reflexive and vulnerable nature of the work calls for radically different ways to engage audiences. Conventional modes of translating research insights often take a low-context\, cognitive path to advance change. White papers and industry-facing reports with their quantitative diagrams and 7-point lists of recommendations are not relevant methods when it comes to shifting individuals’ long-held beliefs or contesting internalised social norms. We need alternative modalities that can push back against an approach that privileges objective notions of evidence and believes in universal notions of how to proceed. \nGuided by Indigenous values of respect\, responsibility\, relationality\, reciprocity and representation the invitation will be to listen to the speakers’ plural perspectives and reckon with how they might affirm or contest your own worldviews or mental models. To this end\, we explore the role of social learning and creative methods in pathways to transformation pathways. \nThe first half will conceptually frame perspective-shifting work\, through applied examples from artists\, designers and theatre practitioners. In the second half\, participants will work creatively with an online Miro board to conceptually consider the role of perspective-shifting in their practice and creative strategies for making that happen. The board will double as a site for capturing the collective insights from the session. \nWith a focus on pluriversal literacies and transformative learning the session will be co-facilitated by academics Mia Perry and Lisa Grocott\, with creative practitioners Sharifa Abdulla\, Reagan Kandole and Alison Colwell-Matsuura sharing decolonial\, Indigenous and disability perspectives that productively unsettle and reframe our ways of seeing the world.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/creative-shiftwork-pluriversal-multi-modal-methods-for-the-hard-work-of-perspective-shifting/
LOCATION:Online Room 2
CATEGORIES:Online
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T140000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035134
CREATED:20230607T114046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230707T212018Z
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Towards new models of knowledge exchange for sustainability transformations: A multi-sited dialogue (II)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Blane Harvey\, Ying-Syuan (Elaine) Huang\, Bruce Goldstein\, Nick Graham\n\n\nThe community of researchers\, practitioners and policymakers working on global climate and sustainability challenges are faced with two competing challenges: First is an ever-expanding body of knowledge\, networks\, and initiatives generating new insights that should be shared. Second is the growing recognition that fly-in-fly-out conferencing practices (long the main forum for this sharing) are an insufficient and unsustainable model for learning\, boundary-crossing and collaboration toward sustainability transformations. Against this backdrop\, this session will bring together conference and network conveners and conference participants\, to collectively discuss how we can re-think\, re-design and sustain equitable and impactful knowledge exchange on sustainability transformations.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/t-practice-workshop-towards-new-models-of-knowledge-exchange-for-sustainability-transformations-a-multi-sited-dialogue-ii/
LOCATION:Online Room 2
CATEGORIES:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T140000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035134
CREATED:20230607T113903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230619T165903Z
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SUMMARY:The Bewilderment Game: Using stories as sense-making adventures
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Meredith Lewis\n\n\n‘Throw away the light\, the definitions\, and say\, what you see\, in the dark.‘ —Wallace Stevens We have all been jolted out of time and psychosocial space due to Covid\, climate and natural emergencies\, growing inequality\, and their attendant disruptions and griefs. What does this mean for us? The Bewilderment Game is a ‘choose your own adventure’ narrative building workshop. It uses reflexivity\, imagination\, and storybuilding as a transformational exercise in sense-making. Following a series of creative prompts and visualisations\, participants will be allowed to construct their own richly-imagined story before being invited to share it with the group. The Bewilderment Game opens up a shared transformational space\, allowing participants to build bridges between their individual inner world to a group discourse. Past participants have fed back that this is creatively generative\, inspirational\, and emotionally resonant. Level of participation: Before: If required\, a brief creative prompt can be emailed to participants before the event to provide inspiration. During: This is a highly interactive event\, first giving individuals time to create a story by being guided by creative prompts from the facilitator\, and then by inviting participants to join group discussions about those stories. There is no passive learning. Following: A 1-page summary of the quotations and prompts used in the session is emailed to the participants and / or shared via Zoom at the end of the event. This is so participants can revisit the creative exercises at any time. About time: Based in Melbourne (AEST)\, I have nominated an evening time-slot for an online event as past experience has shown me that I can attract audiences from across a number of international time zones then. However\, I am happy to deliver any time between 6.30am and 11pm AEST.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/155/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T150000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035134
CREATED:20230623T201401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230704T051010Z
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SUMMARY:Guided Tour: Transformational Prague
DESCRIPTION:Sign up through this form to join a guided tour
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/guided-tour-transformational-prague/
LOCATION:Foyer
CATEGORIES:Prague
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T153000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035134
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230711T090843Z
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SUMMARY:Transformations Organizations
DESCRIPTION:Leaders of transformation organizations will explore: \n\nWhat are transformations initiatives\, and how do they differ from other social change initiatives?\nWhat have we learned about how to design and structure transformations initiatives?\nWhat are the principal challenges in building and sustaining transformations initiatives\, and how can we address those challenges?\n\nModerators: Bruce Goldstein (Transformations Community) and Ioan Fazey (University of Kent) \nPanelists: \n\nDerk Loorbach\, DRIFT\nCarolina Carvalho\, Activator\, Global Regeneration Co-Lab\nMamphela Ramphele\, Co-President\, The Club of Rome\, South Africa\, and founder Reimagine SA
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/transformations-organizations/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 205
CATEGORIES:Online,Prague
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230712T153000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035134
CREATED:20230607T095100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230704T050604Z
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SUMMARY:World Café Day One Afternoon: Drawing on Diverse Sources of Knowledge in Partnerships
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Violeta Cabello\, Sarah Velten\, Eugenia Castellazzi\, Sierra Deutsch\, Viola Hakkarainen\, Sara Zaman\, Jakub Macha \nPresentations: \nShifting values\, knowledge systems and agency in education\, institutes and policy\nViola Hakkarainen\, Sara Zaman\, Eugenia Castellazzi \nFrom academics\, policy makers\, to practitioners\, humans often work within the context of institutions that partially provide the scope of what a desirable future looks like. Sustainability and transformative change mean vastly different things to individuals within these contexts. Having developed processes for integrating institutional knowledges and values\, it remains unclear how these processes intend to fundamentally challenge existing worldviews within institutions\, thereby dealing with the ultimate alienation of human from nature\, and mind from body. Our research therefore unsettles institutional claims to sustainability on multiple fronts. We have introduced relational learning through role-plays to secondary schools\, research the transformative potential of online sustainability education in universities\, and used embodiment to uncover care-ful relationships in the smart city. In these contexts\, we demonstrate the need for shifting and enriching sustainable educational and urban planning paradigms with relational and embodied approaches. These approaches can enable humans to understand past\, present and future more-than-human interdependencies. \nFostering positive biodiversity outcomes of the EU Common Agricultural Policy through multi-level transformative partnerships in Baden-Württemberg and Thuringia\, Germany\nSarah Velten \nAgriculture is both one of the main drivers of ongoing biodiversity loss and one of the sectors that suffer most from the consequences of this unsustainable trend. In the European Union\, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) crucially shapes agricultural practice and its effects on biodiversity. Agri-environmental requirements and measures have been part of the CAP since the 1990s. However\, despite substantial investments in these measures\, biodiversity loss in European agricultural landscapes is far from being stopped or reversed. There are multiple causes for the limited effectiveness of the agri-environmental legislation and measures\, such as insufficient payments\, too little flexibility of the measures\, risk of sanctions etc. Also\, farmers feel too little involved in the design of the measures and see measures to be poorly adapted to day-to-day agricultural practice. Project CAP4GI aims to identify leverage points improve agricultural support under the CAP in terms of both biodiversity outcomes and economic feasibility for farms. As part of this endeavor\, the project team has established partnerships with farmers and other agricultural stakeholders in two federal states in Germany (Baden-Württemberg and Thuringia). At these so-called exchange platforms\, all partners work together in a co-design process to develop solutions for better biodiversity outcomes in the agriculture of the addressed regions and thereby highlight potential improvements for the CAP in general. The platforms are realized on both regional and state-level. With this multi-level design\, the partnerships attempt to facilitate effective knowledge co-production\, tackle power imbalances while enabling the involvement of a wide range of different stakeholders\, and increase the relevance of the outputs of the partnership. The oral presentation will describe the design of this process and will reflect on lessons learned so far regarding the potential of these partnerships to shape transformations. \nTransdisciplinary transformative change: an analysis of some best practices and barriers\, and the potential of critical social science in getting us there\nSierra Deutsch \nBiodiversity experts now widely acknowledge that transformative change is best supported through transdisciplinary collaborations. Yet\, such collaborations rarely successfully occur in major biodiversity research institutions and those that do rarely achieve the paradigmatic effects they aim to deliver. To gain some insight into this global phenomenon\, we surveyed Swiss-based researchers and non-academic stakeholders addressing global change and biodiversity. In this article\, we connect our findings to global patterns in transdisciplinary transformative change initiatives (TTCIs) and heuristically divide collaboration barriers into two categories: lack of resources and lack of vital functional elements. Two of the major themes that emerged from this research were the continued difficulties with (1) establishing a common ‘language’\, understanding\, and goals\, and (2) meaningful pluralization of knowledge in transdisciplinary collaborations aimed at addressing global change and biodiversity loss. The former is widely cited in the literature as contributing to the failure of TTCIs in the form of incoherent problem-framing\, while the latter is often identified as contributing to the lack of structural transformative change (e.g.\, paradigmatic shifts) in completed initiatives. Another major theme reflected in TTCI literature was limited time. Moreover\, based on our own extensive inter- and transdisciplinary experience\, we agree with other experts that there is a persistent lack of understanding of the potential contributions of critical social science (CSS) to TTCIs. We thus argue that enhancing resource availability for TTCIs\, especially tools for improving CSS literacy\, could save time and support both problem-framing alignment and delivery of the structural/paradigmatic changes we aspire to. \nSituating knowledge co-production in environmental conflicts\nVioleta Cabello \nThis presentation shares insights from a Transformation Lab focused on the eutrophication of a coastal lagoon\, the Mar Menor\, in Southern Spain. Building upon a reflection of what can transformation mean in a context of ecological grief and strong social contestation\, I situate a methodological design for a Transformation Lab that targeted humble individual and collective transformations. I emphasize the importance of the initial steps in knowledge co-production when relations are build with potential participants and crucial decisions are to be made on inclusivity and on how to attend to intersectional power differentials. I reflect on how the results of the process partially achieved its purposes\, namely\, opening a safe-enough space for dialogue among divergent positions and creating a sense of collectivity among them. I further discuss how both external and internal contexts of polarization influenced the process and how internally processing such conflicts was fundamental for me as researcher-facilitator in order to sustain it. I contend that inner and outer dimensions of transformation need to be coupled when co-producing knowledge in environmental conflicts. \nKnowledge networks and partnerships in CEE grassroots\nJakub Macha
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/world-cafe-day-one-afternoon/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 206
CATEGORIES:Prague
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SUMMARY:Online Panel: Transformative Policy & Paradigms
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Sofia Maniatakou\, Nathalie Sänger\, Jorge Martín Motta\, Simone Sandholz\, Laura Arévalos \nPresentations: \nExploring the roles and capacities of large-scale actor coalitions for sustainability transformations\nSofia Maniatakou \nSeveral transnational corporations\, investors and philanthropic organizations have formed coalitions to respond to global social and environmental challenges of the Anthropocene. The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified calls for such partnerships to increase transformative actions including new forms of governance and business models. Do these coalitions\, consisting of large-scale actors\, have the capacities to contribute to the fast\, broad and deep transformations that are needed\, or do they perpetuate the system dynamics that created the problem in the first place? In this paper we explore how large-scale actor coalitions (LSACs) may contribute to transformations towards equitable and sustainable futures. We use a “rapid assessment” 20-variable framework to collect and analyze empirical data from a total of five food and finance coalitions to identify their role and capacities for transformative change. To better understand how capacities might change according to certain conditions\, we used additional data from the COVID-19 crisis. Our results indicate that LSACs take on several roles and implement distinct strategies to reach their goals. More specifically\, LSACs raise awareness of sustainability issues\, utilize ties to push forward agendas\, and/or deal with push-back from actors that resist change. Our findings also show that LSACs responded differently to the COVID-19 disruption and were able to switch a variety of capacities when responding to the crisis. We contribute with a more nuanced understanding of the promises and pitfalls of LSACs in transformative processes\, and conclude that a combination of strategies and capacities (reflected through diverse LSAC set-ups) may support transformative changes within the food and finance sectors. \nCo-creating a Toolbox for building Transformative Coalitions: Lessons from Latin America\nNathalie Sänger\, Jorge Martín Motta\, Simone Sandholz\, Laura Arévalos \nCities are responsible for 75% of carbon emissions. Rapid and radical decarbonization is needed to meet global emission targets\, however this can only be sustainable if it is also socially just. Such a goal requires collaboration across urban dwellers. But how can urban actors succeed in building and sustaining diverse coalitions? The Transformative Urban Coalitions (TUC) project seeks to transform the social\, technological\, and political structures and value systems that have so far fostered high-carbon and resource-intensive urban developments. The project focuses on Latin America\, where cities are already feeling the effects of the climate crisis in addition to structural problems like inequalities\, poverty\, and informality. In five urban labs in Mexico\, Brazil and Argentina\, catalyst projects for transformation are being co-designed and co-implemented by multi-stakeholder coalitions involving the most vulnerable groups. The goal of the toolbox is to help urban actors steer their cities toward more just and carbon-free development trajectories. Tools include participatory design and mapping methodologies\, awareness raising games and consensus building exercises that are developed and adapted in and with the urban labs to meet local needs. In parallel to its development the toolbox is also being researched for its effectiveness regarding contribution to transformative change in different urban contexts. Results are then constantly being fed back into the further development process. This presentation will discuss the opportunities and challenges arising from toolbox development process\, with a focus on experiences from the Buenos Aires Urban Lab. in doing so\, it will draw on experiences as well as on empirical data from the development and implementation process\, The presentation ends with critical reflections on how processes of co-design and co-production of knowledge can reflect collective visions and build effective partnerships that enable transformative change toward sustainable and just urban futures.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/online-panel-transformative-policy-paradigms/
LOCATION:Online Room 2
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Collaborative Systems Mapping and Visioning
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Julia Leventon\, Zuzana Harmackova\, Silja Zimmermann\, Jan Christian Polanía Giese\, Bruce Goldstein\n\n\n\nPanelists will describe their collaborative mapping processes\, engage in dialogue about the similarities and differences in design\, implementation\, and purpose\, and engage session attendees in exploring these questions related to how to engage diverse communities in identifying transformative outcomes and pathways\, including leverage points for change. We will consider questions that include: \n\nHow do we cultivate a shared understanding of what systems are\, how to think about defining them\, and their boundaries?\nWhat insights can collaborative systems mapping offer to addressing capacity needs/gaps and strengths/contributions?\nHow can these insights better strengthen transformative leadership within organizations and initiatives?\nHow can we use collective visioning and systems mapping/analysis to inform\, guide\, inspire?\nHow can we used these methods both in community-based collaboratives (at a variety of scales) and stakeholder-based/sectoral transformations initiative?\nHow does this field need to develop and how can we contribute to it?\n\nThis session will include these three presentations: \nTipping the Iceberg: Leveraging a food transition for Indigenous communities in the Bering Sea by combining complex systems thinking and transdisciplinary approaches\nSilja Zimmermann \nAs the world becomes more interlinked\, humanity faces ever more complex challenges. Solutions to these problems are progressively difficult to identify\, and traditional approaches are often refacing sustainability issues but do not lead to sustainable systems. Tackling these interlinked problems demands us to move beyond isolated disciplinary research and towards problem-driven\, transdisciplinary approaches. Arctic Indigenous food systems often struggle with a plethora of such complex challenges whilst at the same time being highly interlinked and involving multiple scales and actors. In other words\, increasingly complex challenges in Arctic Indigenous food systems require new strategies to find and implement successful solutions. We have carried out a systematic literature review of Arctic Indigenous food systems research and found three promising directions for future research. Building on the insights from our review\, we believe (1) the decolonisation of research practices and the Western scientific paradigm\, (2) the acknowledgement of cross-scale feedback between shallow and deep leverage points\, as well as (3) transdisciplinary action-oriented research collaborations to be of particular importance to enable effective system transformations towards futures of increased food security for Arctic Indigenous communities. To put the vision of such co-produced complexity approaches into practice\, we have teamed up with the Aleut community of St. Paul Island to co-design a transdisciplinary project that deploys methods from complex system science to gain a holistic understanding of the Indigenous St. Paul Island food system and its complex challenges to find key leverage points for sustainability transformation. Thus\, the Tipping the Iceberg project provides a unique opportunity to assess whether complex systems science combined with transdisciplinary approaches can lead to actual changes on the ground. \nBIOTRAILS Framework of Transitional Pathways and Leverage Points\nJan Christian Polanía Giese \nBIOTRAILS is a Horizon Europe project\, funded by the European Union\, which aims to generate knowledge and develop tools that will inspire and accelerate biodiversity-relevant transformative change in society. The project takes into account the complex interrelations between the indirect drivers of change in four value chains of traded products: cocoa produced in Peru; fisheries and aquaculture products supplied by the Mediterranean basin; gold mined in Ghana\, and forest-based cultural products created by indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon. This oral presentation presents the results of a preliminary analysis of the four value chains\, drawing on two theoretical concepts from systems analysis\, the “leverage points” framework (Meadows 1999) and “Attitudes-Facilitators-Infrastructure (AFI) framework” (Akenji and Chen 2016). The preliminary analysis identifies levers for successful transformational change in the four value chain systems. The results of the analysis will be discussed with a view to refining the specific leverage points relevant in each case. The ambition is that\, in a next step\, the potential interventions triggering those leverage points will be assessed to design transitional pathways and to derive a set of specific and practical recommendations for each value chain context. Ultimately\, the goal is to derive broader policy recommendations and implications for other systems. \n\n\nSystems mapping approaches for designing and critiquing change towards sustainability\nJulia LeventonI will reflect on how systems mapping approaches can contribute to designing and critiquing change towards sustainability. I will use examples from research and practice relating to creating change in the food and textiles sectors\, and to thinking about scaling of behaviour change for transformations. Using a set of illustrations\, co-created with an artist and team of researchers\, I will: consider how leverage points and systems thinking can be applied to target intervention activities and to exploring pathways of change; highlight the scope and limits of these interventions; and consider the role and positionality of research. We can also draw on this work to think about how systems thinking frameworks help organize different knowledge types into bigger pictures of transformative change.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/collaborative-systems-mapping-and-visioning/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 205
CATEGORIES:Online,Prague
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SUMMARY:Decolonizing knowledge and learning systems by reconciling diverse ways of knowing
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Viola Hakkarainen\, Joel Onyango\, Gladys Kivati\, Nora Ndege\n\nViola Hakkarainen will introduce the concept of engaging with diverse ways of knowing for sustainability transformations\, and Joel Onyango\, Gladys Kivati\, and Nora Ndege will provide an in-depth case study of Learning Libraries\, an effort to decolonize institutionalized knowledge practices by developing culturally-embedded and  non-elitist knowledge systems. \nThe epistemic dimension of human-nature relationships for inclusive and just sustainability transformations\nViola Hakkarainen \nKnowledge processes such as (co-)creation\, exchange and application are in many ways central to transformations towards sustainability. One of the key questions in sustainability science is how to reconcile diverse ways of knowing in planning and implementing just and sustainable futures. Sustainability science has adopted many approaches to collaborative knowledge production. What they hold in common is the need to recognize epistemic plurality to be able to address power dynamics and create just and inclusive outcomes. However\, there are few empirical examples on how to navigate the epistemic plurality. In this presentation\, I introduce and unpack the epistemic dimension of human-nature relationships. By using empirical case examples from a science-policy interface (The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) and ecosystem governance (High Coast/Kvarken Archipelago UNESCO World Heritage Site)\, I exemplify how the epistemic dimension can be approached in research and environmental decision-making processes. I then discuss the implications of the epistemic dimension for sustainability science and show how researchers involved in the many forms of collaborative knowledge processes can draw on the epistemic dimension both to increase their own reflexivity but also to understand the contexts they conduct research in. I argue that considering the epistemic dimension is the key for critical and inclusive sustainability science which aims at minimizing its contribution to epistemic domination and injustices and through collaborative knowledge production challenges the existing status-quo and business-as-usual practices. \nLiving Libraries – Decolonising knowledge and learning systems\nJoel Onyango\, Gladys Kivati\, Nora Ndege \nAcross the developing world\, the institutionalization of learning has made access to knowledge within various learning settings a preserve for the elite and privileged. This has made local knowledge transmission almost none-existent in some communities of practice. In an effort to decolonise knowledge and learning systems in the developing world\, self-emerging and organized knowledge through storytelling and cultural histories have emerged. However\, a framework to allow the institutionalized knowledge systems to be integrated with the self-emerging knowledge paradigm\, needs various approaches. In this practice session\, we open up a dialogue on how living libraries\, as a tool and approach\, could bridge the integration of institutionalized and self-emerging knowledge systems. The session offers an opportunity for panelists and participants to self-reflect on how living libraries have emerged\, how they can be used to transform the knowledge economy in the developing world\, and how the agency of living books can be challenged to encourage reduced elitist and privilege on knowledge production\, availability and recognition. This session provides a nexus into the transformation conference 2023 by leveraging diversified knowledge frameworks and opening up the space for the transformation community to explore alternative approaches to knowing and learning in the developing world.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/living-libraries/
LOCATION:Prague Hybrid Room 206
CATEGORIES:Online,Prague
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