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Pressure Cooker 2015

Theories of change in sustainability transitions

Pressure cooker
University of A Coruña, 10-11th of September 2015

Director:
Prof. Ricardo García Mira (University of A Coruña)
Coordinators:
Adina Dumitru, Ricardo Garcia Mira, Niki Frantzeskaki

The second Pressure Cooker, hosted by the People-Environment Research Group of the University of A Coruña (Spain) and the GLAMURS project, coordinated by Prof. Ricardo García Mira, gathered together in Coruña from the 10th to the 11th of September, 2015, representatives of nine European projects. All projects study, from a variety of scientific perspectives, the mechanisms through which effective societal transformation towards sustainability can be achieved, and they all tackle the role of individual and collective agency in sustainability transitions. They also have in common the study of a wide range of sustainability and social innovation initiatives and networks across Europe and beyond and focus on their role in complex processes of sustainable change. The rich discussions of the symposium were focused on the following research questions:

• What theories of change do initiatives hold and how do they influence their action and experience?
• What do different pathways of transition to sustainable societies reveal about mechanisms of large- scale societal change and what is the role of different types of actors in these processes?
• How do these theories of change play out in processes of collective agency and empowerment?
• How does the situated yet global nature of these networks influence their theories of change and experience of societal transformation?
• How do scientific theories interact with dominant societal narratives of change and with the initiatives’ theories?
• What is the role of individual agents in processes of societal transformation?
• What is the meaning of individual and collective agency and their relationship to empowerment in these processes?
• If agency is a relational process, what factors need to be in place to promote relationships that lead to empowerment and a feeling of collective agency?
• How do processes of human needs for coherence and stability play out within initiatives and networks and what effects do they have for societal transformation efforts?
• How do theories of change influence agents’ personal and collective identities?

Material

From the 10th-11th of September 2015 the 2nd Pressure Cooker Event of the EU projects GLAMURS, ARTS, TESS and TRANSIT was held in A Coruna (Spain). Please find all presentations and materials of the event below: