Conferences
Our conferences are more than a place to share content, they are a transformative space and catalyzing force for research and practice.
TC/ESG Conference 2025
Johannesburg & Kruger National Park, South Africa
August 18–21, 2025
We are excited to announce the TC/ESG25 Conference, a collaboration between the Transformations Community, the Earth System Governance Project (ESG), and Wits University. For the first time, the Transformations Community will host its 7th biennial conference in Africa. With a focus on collaboration, this event brings together researchers, experts, and their community partners who co-produce knowledge and actionable solutions for sustainability transformations.
Navigating Sustainability Transformations Towards Justice and Equity
Sydney, Australia 2023
Maine, Portland 2023
Prague, Czechia 2023
Santiago, Chile 2019
Dundee, United Kingdom 2017
Stockholm, Sweden 2015
Oslo, Norway 2013
Johannesburg, South Africa 2025
Transformations Conference 2023
Sydney, Prague, Maine & Online – 12th to 14th July 2023
The 2023 Transformations Conference explored the role of partnerships in transformative practice. It looked for ways to build partnerships that were more effective, inclusive, and transformative.
TRANSFORMATIVE
PARTNERSHIPS FOR
A BETTER WORLD
Transformations Conference 2021
Online – 17th – 18th June 2021
In 2020 a tipping point may have been crossed on how societies worldwide deal with multiple overlapping crises. On an unprecedented scale we see groups and communities mobilizing to re-imagine and transform the pre-pandemic systems which led to current vulnerabilities, risks, and unsustainable practices. This challenging but also fertile moment calls for urgent knowledge synthesis able to enact positive tipping points and tipping interventions towards new regenerative development trajectories
ENABLING POSITIVE TIPPING POINTS IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD
Transformations Conference 2019
Santiago, Chile – October 15-19, 2019
The Transformation 2019 Conference provided a platform for reciprocal learning between developing and developed countries, and between researchers and practitioners. The conference was held for the first time outside of Europe, which increased the participation of practitioners and scientists from developing countries and expanded our understanding of the richness and diversity of transformation processes.
LEARNING FROM TRANSFORMATIVE
ACTION AND THINKING
Transformations Conference 2017
Dundee, United Kingdom – August 30 – September 1, 2017
Bringing together an interdisciplinary delegation from around the world, Transformations 2017 aimed to address challenges around sustainability to enhance people’s well-being while also placing a focus on the Earth’s ecosystem.
TRANSFORMATIONS
IN PRACTICE
Transformations Conference 2015
Stockholm, Sweden – October 5-7, 2015
Transformations 2015, held in Stockholm Oct 5-7 2015, focused on transformations towards sustainability: the challenge of solving problems in the Anthropocene and creating conditions for good lives for people, today and in the future, while strengthening Earth’s life support system.
PEOPLE AND PLANET
IN THE ANTROPOCENE
Transformation in a changing climate
Oslo, Norway – June 19-21, 2013
Hosted in 2013 by the University of Oslo in Norway. Its aim was to “bring together diverse perspectives on transformation, and to generate cutting-edge discussions on deliberate, ethical and sustainable transformation in response to the complex global challenges associated with climate change.” Through this conference, we saw how vital it was to bring together a community of researchers and practitioners to keep this vital dialogue going as the field of transformative theory and practice emerge.
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