Section 3: Visualising desirable futures

With this interactive Miro tool, you will become familiar with segments of the DT theory. You will experiment with the future worlds, niche building and interventions. These are all critical elements to building resilient pathways. You will think about what alternatives there are to our unsustainable practices and what actions you can take to move … from Tool: Moving towards sustainable futures

Discover more about our three visions for the future in this short and easy-to-watch video. 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 … from Video: three future worlds

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

Niches are new ways of driving change. They are protective spaces for innovations within society and organisations. They are alternative configurations of technology, institutions, practices, and discourses that embrace new ways of thinking and doing. Niches are driven by innovations (social and technological), but should not be conflated with them. We use innovations/initiatives/alternative practices as … from How we transform our world: an introduction to niches

This tool is all about mapping where new ways of doing things are emerging and how we can practically challenge our unsustainable systems. You’ll be introduced to the DT concept of niches and work in a group to map and grow niches so they are capable of disrupting our current systems. You’ll learn theory and … from Tool: Mapping where change is emerging

The Niche from the Future is a fun and accessible card game that helps players to imagine and invest in desirable futures using conceps from Deep Transitions. In the game, players compete to come up with the most thought-provoking and imaginative niches that could function in our three future world scenarios. The game aims to … from The Niche from the Future Card Game

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

Investments and policy decisions can be made more effective by connecting to the transition dynamics of a particular place. From skills to infrastructures, identities to aspirations and culture – the characteristics and conditions of an organisational or geographical context may help or hinder progress towards systems transformation. At the same time, scaling requires that we … from Tool: Opportunity spaces – Unlocking learning from place-based challenges through Transformative Outcomes

This valuable research report presents a framework for evaluating Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) developed within the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC). It provides practical guidance for policymakers and researchers seeking to design evaluation approaches that support learning, experimentation and systemic change in innovation policy. It explores how evaluation approaches need to evolve in order to … from A Framework for Evaluating Transformative Innovation Policy

The impending climate emergency, the Paris agreement and Sustainable Development Goals demand significant transformations in economies and societies. Science funders, innovation agencies, and scholars have explored new rationales and processes for policymaking, such as transformative innovation policy (TIP). Here, we address the question of how to orient the efforts of science, technology, and innovation policy … from Transformative outcomes: assessing and reorienting experimentation with transformative innovation policy

This PhD thesis addresses a number of TIP concepts covered in the Resource Lab, including: change in social technical systems; the orientation of science, technology and innovation towards the SDGs; indicators for the evaluation of Transformative Innovation Policy; and the role of social movements in advancing transformation. It is published as an article on the … from Transformative Research Niches: Uncovering the Transformative Potential of the Science System

This article discusses empirical findings and conceptual elaborations of the last 10 years in strategic niche management research (SNM). The SNM approach suggests that sustainable innovation journeys can be facilitated by creating technological niches, i.e. protected spaces that allow the experimentation with the co-evolution of technology, user practices, and regulatory structures. The assumption was that … from Strategic niche management and sustainable innovation journeys: theory, findings, research agenda, and policy