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Transformations 2021: Enabling positive tipping points in an uncertain world

02/06 2021

The Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) community will be well-represented at the forthcoming online conference – Transformations 2021: Enabling positive tipping points in an uncertain world – which takes place on 17 and 18 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.

On Thursday 17 June, between 14:00 – 16:00 CEST, Emily Boyd will moderate the opening keynote session with Kate Raworth, Aílton Krenak, Jessica Clark and Heila Lotz-Sisitka (T2S project ‘T-Learning‘).

Connect with the T2S community at the following sessions:

Please note that the 60-minute sessions are Q&A sessions with the authors of pre-recorded presentations, which you can start viewing from Monday 7 June. 90-minute sessions are live practice sessions. The information below is reproduced from the SRI2021/Transformations2021 website, where you can find the most up-to-date information.

Urban Transformations

Thursday, 17 June
08:00 – 09:00 CEST

With

  • Swati S. Shinde, Indian Institute of Technology IIT Bombay

Positive Tipping Points in Food and Agricultural Systems 1

Thursday, 17 June
09:00 AM – 10:00 CEST

With

  • Frederic Huybrechs, University of Antwerp – Institute of Development Policy

Transforming Extractive Industries 1

Thursday, 17 June
10:00 – 11:00 CEST

With

  • Esther van de Camp, Leiden University
  • Eleanor Fisher, Nordiska Afrikainstituteit.
  • Luciana Massaro, State University of Campinas, Brazil.

Tales of Uncertainty, Resilience and Transformation Through Visual Stories and Narratives

Thursday, 17 June
12:00 – 13:30 CEST

With

  • Shibaji Bose, Independent Consultant

Transformation as Praxis: Responding to Climate Change Uncertainties in Marginal Environments in South Asia

Thursday, 17 June
12:00 – 13:30 CEST

With

  • Hans Nicolai Adam

Transformative Responses to Climate Uncertainties in South Asia

Thursday, 17 June
13:00 – 14:00 CEST

With

  • Hans Nicolai Adam
  • Ranit Chatterjee, Kyoto University
  • Shilpi Srivastava, Institute of Development Studies, UK
  • Synne Movik

Local knowledge

Thursday, 17 June
20:00 – 21:00 CEST

With

  • Vangelis Pitidis, University of Warwick.
  • Milagros Romero, Nitlapan-UCA
  • Raíssa Resende de Moraes.

Theories and Perspectives of Transformations

Thursday, 17 June
20:00 – 21:00 CEST

With

  • Rose Cairns, University of Sussex.

Co-Creative Africa: ‘Philosophical Underpinnings’ In Decolonizing Research Methods For Transformation Towards Sustainability

Friday, 18 June
11:00 – 13:00 CEST

With

  • Joel Onyango
  • Joanes Atela

“Gold Matters” – A virtual exhibition on transformations to sustainability in small-scale gold mining

Friday, 18 June
15:00 – 16:30 CEST

With

  • Eleanor Fisher, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet

Positive Tipping Points – Theory and Methods 2

Friday, 18 June
17:00 – 18:00 CEST

With

  • Elisabeth Eppinger, HTW Berlin

Positive Tipping Points in SES (Climate and Natural Resources)

Friday, 18 June
20:00 – 21:00 CEST

With

  • Kate Massarella, Wageningen University
  • Laila Sandroni, USP

Transforming Extractive Industries 2

Friday, 18 June
22:00 – 23:00 CEST

With

  • Carlos Henrique Xavier Araujo, University of São Paulo.
  • Januaria Mello, INCRA and UNICAMP/NEPAM
  • Jorge Calvimontes, Universidade Estadual de Campinas.

Registered participants have access to the online platform and can watch recorded sessions until the end of August. Register for the conference here.

The Transformations Conference is a collaboration with Future Earth’s Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI) 2021 – find out more and register for the SRI Congress here.

Request for expressions of interest for a synthesis study of the Belmont Forum–NORFACE Transformations to Sustainability programme
Supporting effective forest governance in the Peruvian Amazon
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    This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 730211.
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