This video records a conversation between Johan Schot and Tine de Moor on the construction of commons and the role of commons in fostering social movements and collective action. In pre-modern times commons or citizen collectives were an important mode of governance, in which groups of people collectively managed and used a collective resource, … from Power to the people? The role of citizen collectives in fighting climate change
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 comprehensive guide was co-authored by Victoria Ward, facilitator, futurist and story teller on TIPC’s sister project, Deep Transitions. It was created to help users develop capabilities as tellers or facilitators of storytelling and to support the development of methodologies, policies, programmes, strategies or evaluations involving knowledge sharing, change and communication. The guide explains how … from Story guide: Building bridges using narrative techniques
In this Leonardo da Vinci Medal address, Johan Schot argues that the imagination – specifically, the historical imagination – is crucially important for actors in the world confronting the next Deep Transition – the coordinated change of many sociotechnical systems in a similar direction. Johan explains how the historical imagination reveals path-dependencies which shape who … from Confronting the Second Deep Transition through the historical imagination
This blog by Carlota Perez is duplicated from the website of TIPC’s sister project, Deep Transitions. It sets out the need to engage our imaginations in order to redirect innovation towards a good life in a green and fair society. The Deep Transitions project has emphasised how much the shaping of technology since the … from Imagining a good life in a green and fair society: You must visualise the future in order to shape it!
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 blog is the transcript of a conversation about Covid-19, in which Johan Schot and Bipashyee Ghosh address a series of questions on the potential impact of the pandemic on sustainability transitions. Together, they discuss the impact of Covid-19 as a landscape shock, its implications for directionality and rule change and its influence on politics … from Conversations on COVID-19: Consequences for the Second Deep Transition and the Sustainability Revolution
