Proposals invited | Deadline: 31 January 2027

What is changing in your practice of sustainability transformation? What are you questioning, learning, trying or rethinking as the conditions of your work change?

TC27 is a place for researchers, practitioners, artists, activists, policymakers, community members and independent contributors to consider this question. If you are directly experiencing change in your practice, or researching change as it applies to the field or pedagogy, you are invited to contribute to the 2027 Transformations Community biennial conference program. The call for contributions is open to established research, an experience from practice, an emerging method, or a question you are still exploring. There are different ways to share your work and learn with others, with seven contribution formats, designed for different kinds of inquiry, participation and exchange.

Sparks—Present a research finding, practical case or emerging idea in a seven-minute “spark” that’s part of a curated session of speed talks and includes group discussion. Sparks are based on peer-reviewed abstracts describing professional projects and fieldwork or any stage of a research pathway.

Panels—Bring together a group of people in a discussion format around a shared question or provocation, and create space for others to participate.

Interactives—Facilitate an aspect of the inquiry with dialogue using methods such as World Café, Fishbowl or other participatory approaches.

Transformations Labs—Explore a method, tool, process or policy challenge through hands-on work and reflection in a 1.5 to 3-hour T-Lab.

TransAction Workshops—Lead an extended, half-day or full-day skills-oriented workshop to develop practical understanding and build competency, experiment and investigate a method as a group, or take a deep dive into an aspect of the inquiry.

Creative Animation—Curate an exhibition or installation, present a performance, film, embodied experience or co-design experience that goes beyond conventional session formats.

Transformative Caring—The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) extends the inquiry to “How do we cultivate collective care for one another while transforming ourselves within a world marked by overlapping and intensifying crises?” Submit a workshop or collective inquiry designed to bring collective care into TC27’s ecology.

Ideas in motion

We’d love to hear from you about your work in these areas:

• Changing responsibilities and forms of agency
• Institutional arrangements and power
• Relationships between knowledge, trust and action
• How creative inquiry, inner transformation and collective care influence our work.

The TC ecology is nourished by different perspectives, knowledge traditions and ways of practice. Contributions that challenge assumptions or introduce questions related to the central inquiry are encouraged.

The TC27 Session Guidelines [coming soon] explain each format, the information required, word limits and how proposals are reviewed. Please read the guidelines before completing the submission form.

Submit your proposal by 31 January 2027, 23:59 AOE (anywhere on earth)