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‘There is no planet B!’ ‘Frack off—leave our land alone.’ ‘I’m not a protestor, I’m a protector.’ These signs, held up at a rally in 2015 in northern Canada, could have been taken from any of dozens, or even hundreds, of protests around the world over the past decade. Hydraulic fracturing, known colloquially as ‘fracking’, […]
By Neema Pathak, Iokiñe Rodriguez, Meenal Tatpati and Mirna Inturias. Across the world, resistance movements are playing a key role in shaping the future of the planet by confronting destructive development practices and bringing forth their own narratives of alternative ways of being, which focus on the wellbeing of humans and non-humans rather than ‘growth and […]
This post originally appeared on the T-learning website. In her keynote address to the Transformations 2017 conference, Susi Moser, Senior Adviser to the Transformations to Sustainability programme, identified the purpose of global transformations networks as ‘life for people and for the planet’. When eight short-listed learning networks from across the globe met the International Social […]
By Florian Koch, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany; Sonia Roitman, The University of Queensland, Australia; and Martin David, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany. Recently adopted global political sustainability agendas such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the New Urban Agenda (NUA) consider cities as ‘powerful actors’ with a role […]
From prehistoric charts of the stars etched into cave walls to the fine-grained, multi-dimensional projections of the 21st century, maps have been tracing, reflecting and influencing the development of human society for thousands of years. As expressions and representations of our environment, maps have long been invaluable in providing direction and guiding human decisions. Today […]
At the turn of the month from August to September I had the privilege to partake in the Transformations conference, held in the historic city of Dundee, Scotland. As an early career researcher in the international T-LEARNING network, I am immensely interested in the forms and conditions for transformative learning that are needed in the […]
This post originally appeared on the STEPS Centre website. In this blog post, Laura Pereira explains the idea of a ‘Transformation Lab’ (T-lab). T-labs are being used in the PATHWAYS Network project in 6 countries to try to enable socio-ecological transformations. In the post, Laura uses an example of a completed T-lab from the GRAID […]
The T-learning network gathered for its second research school, hosted by SWEDESD in Visby on the island of Gotland, Sweden, from 5-9 July 2017. The school constituted a rich gathering in which to share and deepen understandings of T-learning – as it has emerged over the past year – with the purpose of developing the […]
This post originally appeared on the ACKNOWL-EJ website. In Rewriting the future, Walidah Imarisha says that when she tells people she’s a prison abolitionist, they look at her as though she “rode in on a unicorn sliding down a rainbow.” Envisioning a future without prisons is indeed a radical vision, but, Imarisha argues, those are […]
By Adrian Ely (co-lead, ‘PATHWAYS’ Network), with contributions from Joanes Atela, Mirna Inturias, Dylan McGarry, Iokiñe Rodríguez & Patrick Van Zwanenberg. This post originally appeared on the STEPS centre website. Working with the International Social Science Council’s ‘Transformations to Sustainability’ programme brings the privilege of engaging with an incredible range of scholars and practitioners from across the […]