In a world where science and activism strive to make a difference, there is a powerful force that we often overlook: artists. At Transformation Community, we firmly believe that artists play a vital role in shaping our society and driving positive change. Through their storytelling and creative expressions, artists have…
The 2023 Transformations Conference comes to Sydney and ISF’s! Chris Riedy, Professor of Sustainability Transformations and Director of Graduate Research at ISF, shared his thoughts on the conference and its overarching theme ‘Transformative partnerships for a better world’.
Could you briefly explain the driving force/motivation behind your work? The driving force behind the work of Sound Matters is the fact that people need to learn to bloody listen if we are to have a hope in hell of addressing the myriad crises we face. By listening, we don’t…
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The Social Innovations Journal has released their 2022 Special Issue: Sustainability Transformations in Practice Learn more about Social Innovations Journal here.
Interview What is the motivation behind your work? As an artist I’ve been obsessed with the climate emergency since 2001 and created Atelier21, when I met people from the Swiss IPCC in Lausanne. I was shocked when I realised that extreme weather conditions are coming and saw the inertia of society…
The Transformations Community (TC) sponsored a series of focused dialogue sessions at Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2022 (SRI 2022). These dialogues help us support our members’ work and build community, as well as begin conversations that continue into our conference in 2023. Our dialogues explore what the community has learned about…
Purposefully transforming our societies is difficult, complex, and messy. Innovative change strategies often fail and there are no general solutions. And even when we have developed promising possibilities, they may falter when we try to scale them upward and outward. This dialogue focused on developing transformations support structures, which intertwine…
Addressing the global challenges highlighted by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals will require a transformation of systems that created the problems in the first place. Knowledge workers are part of that system – our funding and publishing practices are dominated by western colonial paradigms, biases, mindsets, and money. This panel…
Transformative change is actually happening in real time, and policy, business and communities are engaging with it in different ways to address the challenges of sustainability. We can and should make a difference in whatever outcomes these transitions and transformations in the making will lead to. Do we get electric…
Creative practices are underused in the urgent task of changing cultures towards sustainability. CreaTures – Creative Practices for Transformational Futures is EU Horizon 2020 research project investigating the potential of creative practices in art, design, and related cultural fields to support positive eco-social change (a term that is used to…
Interview The Driving Force Behind My Work? I see art as being at the heart of society. My gallery in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, is called ‘Maan Neere’. In my language (Moore) it means ‘to do beautiful/good’ but it has a double meaning of making something aesthetically appealing that also morally…
