Carla Alvial Palavicino

Background: Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) encompasses a variety of policy frameworks that seek to use the potential of science, technology, and innovation to address societal challenges. To do so, it relies on inclusive co-creation processes for the design, implementation and evaluation programmes and policies that can drive systemic transformation towards sustainability. Aims and objectives: To … from Co-creation for Transformative Innovation Policy: an implementation case for projects structured as portfolio of knowledge services

This presentation details: Experiences from Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC):Projects related to Energy and Climate themes given by the team in relation to COP 26 in 2021.   … from TIPC Projects Related to Energy Sussex Energy Group: COP26

This short report created with EIT Climate-KIC defines and illustrates the role of intermediaries in relation to the transformative outcomes sought by TIP practitioners. It explores how intermediaries can push change beyond system optimisation into more transformative territory, outlining three key messages: • that intermediaries can play a role in enabling transformative outcomes by building … from The role of intermediary actors in transformative change

This simple Miro tool was developed for the five-day ‘live reflection and learning’ journey at the TIP conference in 2022, to help guide participants through a day-by-day exploration of three cross-cutting conference aims: Networking Aligning visions Learning and unlearning Each day, participants were invited to answer a series of reflective questions, share their personal experiences … from Tool: Live reflection and learning at the TIP conference

This workshop report covers a wide range of case studies drawm from the global South in which the transformative outcomes were employed to interpret experience or to guide action. … from Transformative Outcomes in the Global South Workshop Report

A video voice recording of a discussion between an advisor to the Norwegian Research Council, a Norwegian research and journalist and a member of the TIPC research team about the enabling conditions for reflexivity and the tensions between power and second order learning.   … from The Norwegian Fireside: Elisabeth Gulbrandsen, Per Koch and Carla Alvial Palavicino

The Mobile Transformative Innovation Lab (MoTIL) was the precursor to the Transformative Innovation Policy Resource Lab. These slides give an insight into the early conceptual thinking on which TIP Resource Lab was formed.   … from Presentation: What is the Mobile Transformative Innovation Lab (MoTIL)?

This presentation was prepared at the early planning stages of, what was then termed the ‘TIPC Handbook’. This evolved to be the TIP Resource Lab. The slide deck was prepared with the purpose of providing key background information about the role of the handbook* in the context of TIPC work and for capacity development, as … from TIP Resource Lab Handbook initial conceptualisation

This short story, reproduced from the Deep Transitions website, introduces the third of three desirable worlds created for the Investors Panel in 2021. For more on the philosophy and principles of Transformative Investment, visit www.transformativeinvestment.net.    ‘When the moonshot became an earthshot’ images a future Inspired by the spirit of the 20th-century missions that put … from World 3: Earthshot

This short story, reproduced from the Deep Transitions website, introduces the second of three desirable worlds created for the Investors Panel in 2021. For more on the philosophy and principles of Transformative Investment, visit www.transformativeinvestment.net.    ‘Do No Harm’ imagines a world characterised by a very different understanding of the relationship between our natural world … from World 2: Do no harm

This short story, reproduced from the Deep Transitions website, introduces the first of three desirable worlds created for the Investors Panel in 2021. For more on the philosophy and principles of Transformative Investment, visit www.transformativeinvestment.net.  ‘After the frugal turn’ imagines a future in which limitless consumption as a foundational and completely irreversible principle for development … from World 1: After the frugal turn

This presentation provides a summary of four TIPC projects which have run in South Africa, Latin America, with Vinnova in Sweden and the European institute of Technology’s Climate Knowledge and innovation Community (EIT Climate KIC) project – MOTION. The presentation shows the variety of implementation pathways that each project has taken, with the purpose of identifying … from TIPC Projects OVERVIEW OF APPROCHES, METHODS AND LEARNING MATERIALS

The MOTION self-assessment tool is an evaluation tool that can be used to assess the quality of transformative outcomes in a specific initiative. It is a test tool for use online in Miro, duplicated from the MOTION Handbook: Developing a Transformative Theory of Change. This tool can be used as part of the monitoring, evaluation … from MOTION self-assessment tool (for quality of transformative outcomes)

This extract from a workshop report shows how the tool for transformative outcomes quality and constraint mapping was used to work with case studies from Nairobi, Bogota and Kolkata, discussing informal settlements, governance of wetlands and mobility. Each of the groups was asked to analyse the transformative outcomes in terms of quality and the challenges … from Case study analysis through the lens of transformative outcomes

Presentation providing a practical and comprehensive overview of the methodology for formative evaluation with transformative outcomes, addressing the aims and purpose, the role of learning in sustainability transitions and evaluation, and second order learning, before walking through a six-step methodology. The authors introduce the steps that participants of a project, initiative or policy can take, … from Methodology for formative evaluation with transformative outcomes

This extract from the MOTION Handbook explains how transformative outcomes are a key ingredient in the transformative theory of change approach. It highlights how transformative outcomes reflect and make tangible the underlying ‘theory’ (the multi-level perspective), guiding us to think through the process of system transformation, and sets out how the 12 transformative outcomes help … from Transformative outcomes as a way to organise transformative portfolios

How can projects, programmes and policies orientated towards system change be made more transformative? This is an extract from a TIPC Open Learning Series event in November 2021, in which TIPC contributors and participants from research, policy and practice explore why a redirection of policy is needed and how it is possible. The extract features … from Transformative outcomes: Practical tools to empower and scale system change

This simple tool is designed to be printed and used by a workshop facilitator, to help participants in a group map/assess the quality of transformative outcomes and constraints across a variety of case studies. TIPC has identified 12 transformative outcomes across three transformation macro processes. However, a key issue is assessing the quality of the … from Tool for transformative outcomes quality and constraint mapping

This introductory workshop tool helps us to think about how we might identify the 12 transformative outcomes in experimental projects and policies. In group, users start by picking one or more transformative outcomes from three macro-process that lead to transformation. They then answer a series of questions to aid thinking about how that transformative outcome … from Tool: Identifying transformative outcomes in projects and policies

This is a short extract from the MOTION handbook, introducing the notion of formative evaluation, and how it was incorporated into the MOTION project through the theory of change approach, which was used as a focal point to incentivise learning and reflection among project partners. … from Formative evaluation as an opportunity and method for learning in a theory of change process

This tool guides participants through a Futures Literacy Lab, a practical method to help us reveal, reframe and rethink the assumptions we use to imagine the future. It draws on TIPC’s Nordic members’ experience of running a Lab in partnership with UNESCO and The Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education in 2021. … from Tool: Futures Literacy Lab

This is a test Miro tool duplicated from the MOTION Handbook: Developing a Transformative Theory of Change. It can be used to help us develop and/or revise a transformative system change strategy for a project, programme or organisation. This strategy can be applied within an initiative and accompany it throughout its lifecycle, serving as an … from MOTION Transformative Theory of Change tool

This collection of illustrated narratives of the mobility, energy and food systems in three future worlds – and the journey towards those worlds between 2020 and 2050 – was developed for the Deep Transitions Investors Panel in 2021. The stories provide a valuable example of how anticipation and collective imagination can be used to translate … from Three Desirable Future Worlds

This extract from the MOTION handbook (pp. 48-51) presents the Theory of Change canvas tool and examples of applying the tool in two different projects.   … from Introduction to the Transformative Theory of Change (TToC) canvas tool and examples

This short extract from the MOTION handbook presents what a Theory of Change is and how this approach was used in the MOTION project.   … from What is a Theory of Change?

This presentation, taken form a TIPC partner, The European Institute of Technology Climate Knowledge & Innovation Community (EIT Climate-KIC) workshop,  gives an introduction to the Theory of Change from a Sustainability Transitions perspective. Topics include how to create a Theory of Change and the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP). … from Introducing Theory of Change from Sustainability Transitions Perspective

Public and private innovation organisations strive to contribute to tackling global challenges such as climate change and growing inequality. System change that drives a sustainability transformation has become a shared goal and innovation policy and actions play a key role in this process. However, transformations are long-term processes that require interventions at various levels and … from MOTION handbook

Short extract from Section 1 of the MOTION handbook, introducing the notion of transformative system change and the Multi-Level Perspective as a framework to understand it.   … from MOTION handbook extract: System change and the MLP

Brief presentation on game-based learning about systemic change, exploring how the online board game can play a role in supporting understanding of issues, contexts, and actions; transforming frames of reference; and showcasing the advantages of transdisciplinary network building.   … from Game Based Learning about Systemic Change

An immersive and playful online board game to strengthen your understanding of socio-technical systems and how to enable change in a local system.   … from Tool: Systemic Change game

This blog offers some insights in how we, through learning-by-doing, adapted the MOTION project methodology to an online format, the challenges we faced, our breakthroughs, and best practices. Most importantly, the crisis challenged some of the core assumptions of our approach.     In March 2020 the Corona crisis hit the MOTION project, just as … from Moving applied research online during the corona crisis: The MOTION experience