11–14 October 2027 | Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
How is the practice of sustainability transformation itself being transformed?
This question shapes TC27, bringing together people working across research, policy, organisations, communities, the arts and other fields of practice. Over four days in Bilbao, we will explore what is changing in how we understand, organise and undertake transformation work, and what we can learn from one another in the process.
The TC27 program takes shape through the proposals, experiences and questions people bring. Some sessions share practice and research, while others are generative, making space for emergence, tensions and possibility. TC27’s theme, Practice in Motion, focuses on the practice of sustainability transformation—how it is experienced, what is changing, and what those changes ask of us.
TC27 is a four-day conference designed around different ways of working and learning together.
Cultivation | 11–12 October
The first two days are centred on engagement and generativity, with community gatherings and extended workshops leading the program.
TransAction Workshops focus on developing practical skills and approaches through extended, half-day or full-day sessions. They offer opportunities to build competency, experiment with methods and investigate questions together.
Transformative Caring, a co-curated inquiry developed with the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), explores how we cultivate collective care for one another while transforming ourselves. This 1.5-day workshop also invites contributions that bring collective care into the wider TC27 program.
Resonance | 13–14 October
On October 13 and 14, the insights gathered in workshops enter into dialogue with research, practical cases, facilitated dialogues, hands-on laboratories, and creative contributions.
Sparks, based on peer-reviewed abstracts, Sparks light up ideas and questions through a grouping of seven-minute speed talks with time for discussion.
Panels bring different perspectives into conversation around shared questions or provocations, while Interactives use facilitated dialogue and participatory approaches to examine ideas and practices with others.
Transformations Labs (T-Labs) create opportunities to explore methods, tools, processes and policy challenges through hands-on work and reflection.
Creative Animation brings artistic and creative practices into the program through exhibitions, installations, performances, films, embodied experiences and co-design.
Contributions to Transformative Caring also enter the shared program during these two days, extending the inquiry into collective care across the conference ecology.
Five currents run through TC27:
- Changing agency and responsibility
- Institutions and power in a changing world
- Knowledge, trust and action
Artistic inquiry and creative practice - Inner transformations, identity and changing practice
- Care and relational practice
These open spaces for creative, embodied and relational experiences alongside more familiar conference formats. The program also brings attention to changing agency and responsibility, institutions and power, and the relationships between knowledge, trust and action. These are not fixed boundaries, however, but starting points for connecting contributions and discovering questions that cross disciplines, sectors and communities.
Contact: Thomas Haselbock, Managing Director
thomas@transformationscommunity.org
The invitation
TC27 invites you to bring your experience into conversation with others and contribute to the ongoing development of transformation practice.