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…
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Interview The Driving Force Behind My Work? The years ahead of us are years of repair for the catastrophes that we have wrought, from fossil fuel emissions that lead to the climate emergency, to habitat destruction that lead to disease, to rising inequality worldwide that lead to social unrest. I…
Interview The Driving Force Behind My Work? In the early nineties, I founded two conservation groups that engage in public awareness through publications, an exhibition, we engage in the support of research and conservation of emblematic species like jaguars, quetzals, pronghorns, whales and many more, and we manage to secure…
Interview with Sarah Smuts-Kennedy Could You Briefly Explain The Driving Force/Motivation Behind Your Work? I am interested in systems thinking that encourages balance in an otherwise unbalanced world. You could call it performing the possibility of healing. More recently I am thinking of my practice as the attempt to co…
We are delighted to announce that the eBook version of Karen O’Brien’s new book You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World is now open for pre-order via Amazon. You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World introduces a…
