Section 1: Personal capabilities for change processes

This blog is an edited extract from an article exploring TIPC experiences of implementing formative evaluation, highlighting the skills, attitudes and values required from evaluators to strengthen trust, participatory engagement and a learning mindset in experiments.    Between 2019 and 2021, TIPC worked with partners to develop a formative approach to the evaluation of Transformative … from Reflexive practice in Transformative Innovation Policy: Six lessons for action researchers

Reflexivity has emerged as a key capability for strengthening trust, participatory engagement and a learning mindset in TIP experiments. So how might we as practitioners and action researchers measure and develop our own reflexivity? This tool was designed in collaboration with the Association of Facilitators to help answer that question, adapting and building on a … from Tool: FACETS® equaliser for reflexive practice

Reflexivity has emerged as a key capability for strengthening trust, participatory engagement and a learning mindset in TIP experiments. So how might we as practitioners and action researchers measure and develop our own reflexivity? This questionnaire was designed in collaboration with the Association of Facilitators to help answer that question, adapting and building on an … from Questionnaire: FACETS® EQUALISER FOR REFLEXIVE PRACTICE

In this example learning history, participants in the Vinnova experiment discuss the experience of adding an active reflexive layer to work on transformation of the food system. Their insights highlight the importance of reflexivity in Transformative Innovation Policy experiments for: working with complexity; managing expectations and assumptions; coping with challenges and change; finding common ground … from Learning history: Mutual understanding and trust-building

In notes prepared for a presentation to the Barcelona Hub of the Systems Innovation Network, TIP practitioner Tatiana Fernández Sirera sets out why a systemic approach is needed to address today’s most important challenges. Drawing on experience of shared agendas for sustainability and social change in Catalonia, Tatiana highlights the difficult and challenging nature of … from Integrating systems thinking into government

With the TIPC Vinnova experiment coming to a close after two years of collaboration, the TIPC team conducted a concluding analysis to uncover to what extent the objectives and desired outcomes of the project have been reached, which challenges remain and how to move forward. The analysis shows a growing consensus for the need to … from An analysis of Vinnova’s mission to transform the Swedish food system

This tool is an extract from the ‘Visual toolbox for system innovation’ – a resource book developed by EIT Climate-KIC to support capabilities in mapping, analysing and facilitating sustainability transitions. The tool helps users to identify actions to improve the way a project performs within a particular system. It was designed to address two common … from Tool: Six systemic strengths

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 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 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 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 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 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 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

This tool is an extract from the ‘Visual toolbox for system innovation’ – a resource book developed by EIT Climate-KIC to support capabilities in mapping, analysing and facilitating sustainability transitions. The visual story tool helps users to imagine and describe the ideal future that would happen as a consequence of succeeding in a project.  The … from Visual story tool