Advancing transformations to more sustainable and equitable futures. Read more.
Supporting innovative, social-science-led research on transformations to sustainability.
Sharing articles, newsletters, videos and other resources on social transformations.
Fostering knowledge exchange and building research skills around the world.
We aim to create a ‘Transformations Knowledge Base’ around social transformation that can inform the development of solutions to sustainability challenges for the long term.
The Transformations community brings together a growing network of researchers and practitioners who work towards social transformations in sustainability contexts.
Programme outputs include workshop documentation, webinars and written syntheses of knowledge.
The programme funded 38 seed projects and three Transformative Knowledge Networks. Read more.
By Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, and Alberto Acosta. This post originally appeared on the EADI blog. The seductive nature of development rhetoric, sometimes called developmentality or developmentalism, has been internalized across virtually all countries. Decades after the notion of development spread around the world, only a handful of countries that were […]
Twelve new international, interdisciplinary research projects on transformations to sustainability, jointly funded by the Belmont Forum, NORFACE and the International Science Council, were formally presented in a session at the World Social Science Forum in Fukuoka, Japan, on 26 September 2018. In a keynote address to the projects, Professor Melissa Leach, Director of the Institute […]
The PATHWAYS network has published a new guide to T-Labs (Transformation Labs), which draws on lessons from its work worldwide as part of the Transformations to Sustainability programme. Since 2016, the Pathways Network has convened T-Labs to respond to social-ecological problems in six countries (Argentina, Mexico, Kenya, China, the UK and India). T-Labs: A Practical […]