COcreating PATHWAYS TOWARD just and SUSTAINABLE FUTURES

10 changemaker capacities crucial for empowering plurialistic, sustainability oriented and societally inclusive policy and services innovation

Build

1

Build a map of structural conditions determining what is possible and what is not

Connect

10

Create parnerships, windows of opportunity and conditions conductive of reflexive collaboration

Understand

2

Understand dynamics of change within and between social, economic, political and ecological systems

Monitor

9

Use tools to trace the transformative effects of your innovation within and accross social and ecological systems

Scan

3

Scan for trends and weak signals of change that might be relevant to your transition pathway

Experiment

8

Bring your ideas into the real world with experiments, while fostering links with policy-making

Question

4

Develop ways of critically questioning dominant images and narratives of the future

Draw out

7

Tease out concrete steps, interventions and pathways, needed to realise your dynamic vision

Foresee

5

Foresee uncertainties and risks and be able to imagine many possible futures

Envision

6

Define core principles and create images of a desirable future, serving as a strategic vision

Developing capacities and innovations with impact implies at least 4 sets of questions

Social innovation and alternative economic models

Which innovations can be said to embody sustainable, regenerative and socially just forms of economy?

How can these innovations be linked up for systemic solutions, in different contexts and at different levels and scales?

In what ways do existing political economic structures determine, support and/or hinder new economic innovation?

What array of design principles can we extrapolate from different innovations for developing holistic solutions?

Making sense of social change and great transformations

Is our current idea of social and systemic change the only (or correct) one?

What other theories of change exist, and how can they inform transformative visions, strategies and innovations?

How should the role and influence of innovations in changes at the levels of society, economy and politics be understood?

How to foresee, assess and monitor, that an innovation may have positive net effects in integrated socio-ecological systems?

Techniques of futuring and building futures literacy

Is my vision of a desirable future truly mine, or am I unconsciously borrowing someone else’s claim to the future(s)?

How to use innovations, trends and weak signals in strategic planning for short, medium and long-term?

How can multiple radical possible futures be used as a basis for shaping social innovations, visions and strategies?

Which types of tools can be used to co-create futures in inclusive, but also creative, experiential and experimental ways?

Designing and governing sustainability transitions

How can ambitious visions of futures guide processes of innovation and the integrative design, planning and managment of just transitions?

Is my innovation transitory by design, or is it meant as a long-term model that would develop over time?

Which supportive (legal, financial and other) mechanisms need to develop to unlock the potentials of open social innovation?

What tools can be used to include the widest range of stakeholders into innovation, design and transition governance processes

SERVICES

Collaborative and sustainability innovation

Change driver analysis

Weak signal and trend scanning

Futures-oriented design

Open innovation

Strategic foresight and scenario planning

Visioning

Backcasting

Scenario planning

Three Horizons

Designing transitions toward alternative economies

Multi-level perspective (MLP)

Transition management

Scaling social-ecological innovation

Quintuple helix governance

Educational and communicational tools

Simulations and roleplay

Transmediation of future visions

Serious games

Game co-design & game jams

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