What do we know about transformations to sustainability?

Knowledge about transformations to sustainability is increasing but still fragmented. The T2S programme produces and shares cutting-edge thinking on social transformations and on solutions-oriented, co-produced research for sustainability.

Explore the highlights of the three Transformative Knowledge Networks that ran from 2016 to 2019 and browse through key programme outputs.

What is social transformation?

What do we know about transformative research and practice?

• Watch members of the T2S projects share ideas on ‘transformations in practice’ – what kind of transformations in research and practice are needed, and how can we make them happen, fast? (2017).
• Watch Gabriele Bammer on why, when and how transdisciplinary research is useful (2020).
• Watch Dylan McGarry of the T-Learning project present an original ‘tarot-based’ framework to understand the various roles and responsibilities of the engaged researcher in contemporary times (2020).
• Watch members of the T2S projects share some methodological approaches to transdisciplinary research on transformations (2017)
• Watch early career researchers from the T2S projects share their experiences of doing transdisciplinary research on transformations to sustainability (2017)
• Explore the special issue of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability on ‘Transformations and co-design’, compiling and synthesizing learning from 16 seed grantees on the process of co-design. Ed. Moser, S. Vol. 20, June 2016.

Knowledge briefs

Digests of up-to-date knowledge on social transformations for a non-specialist audience, mainly based on the peer-reviewed papers in the COSUST virtual special issue (see above).

Transformative Knowledge Workshops

The project members met on an annual basis at the ‘Transformative Knowledge Workshops’:

• 2014 Transformative Knowledge Workshop, Potsdam
• 2015 Transformative Knowledge Workshop, Durban
• 2016 Transformative Knowledge Workshop, New Delhi
• 2017 Transformative Knowledge Workshop, Buenos Aires
• 2018 Transformative Knowledge Workshop, Fukuoka
• 2019 Workshop, Santiago de Chile – ‘Transformation Laboratories as spaces for co-designing social-ecological transformation: learning from different contexts and approaches’