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Building collective capability for sustainable transformative change – Roundtable on practical experiences with a transdisciplinary learning approach to sustainability transitions in neighborhoods and communities
Time:
Thursday, 26/Oct/2023:
10:30am - 12:00pm
Session Chair: Erik Jansen
Location:GR 1.129
Session Conference Streams:
Inter- and Transdisciplinarity for Sustainability Transformations
Session Abstract
Sustainability transformations require citizen participation for at least three reasons. First, it leads to more involvement of the general public with sustainability issues and transitions and thereby enhances effectiveness of the interventions applied. Second, it taps into the collective creative potential in determining interventions and strategies. Third, there is growing insight that it is morally right to include people in matters of their concern, and an inclusive approach enhances recognition and procedural justice.
In The Netherlands there is growing involvement of citizen initiatives on sustainability issues in neighborhood and smaller communities. Although policy makers and civil servants generally embrace such initiatives in theory, in practice these are met with less enthusiasm and sometimes even reluctance, as the innovative nature of citizen initiatives often also challenges existing power structures, norms and routines. As a result, relational tensions, role confusions and governance issues arise that can severely hamper progress in local sustainability transitions. A potential strategy to move these processes forward is to adopt a collaborative approach, in which local stakeholders gradually enhance their collective capability for sustainable change in a joint learning process.
At HAN University of Applied Sciences in Nijmegen (NL) we are working with learning approaches in transdisciplinary collaborative projects focusing on sustainability transitions in neighborhoods and smaller communities. In this roundtable we will gather participants from several such projects in the Nijmegen-Arnhem region to share their experiences. To practice what we preach, the roundtable takes the form of an interactive learning session in which participants and session attendees will jointly reflect on and deliberate the opportunities and problems in building local transformative change towards more sustainable neighborhoods and communities.
Presentations
Building collective capability for sustainable transformative change – Roundtable on practical experiences with a transdisciplinary learning approach to sustainability transitions in neighborhoods and communities
Chair(s): Erik Jansen (HAN University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, The)
Presenter(s): Karin Van Landsbergen (HAN University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, The), Gideon Visser (HAN University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, The), Koen Dortmans (HAN University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, The), Maurice Coen (Nyenrode Business University, The Netherlands), Patrick Hoogenbosch (The Blue Neighborhood Economy, The Netherlands), Wendy Kemper (ZorgAlliantie/CoE Krachtige Kernen; HAN University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, The)
Sustainability transformations require citizen participation for at least three reasons. First, it leads to more involvement of the general public with sustainability issues and transitions and thereby enhances effectiveness of the interventions applied. Second, it taps into the collective creative potential in determining interventions and strategies. Third, there is growing insight that it is morally right to include people in matters of their concern, and an inclusive approach enhances recognition and procedural justice.
In The Netherlands there is growing involvement of citizen initiatives on sustainability issues in neighborhood and smaller communities. Although policy makers and civil servants generally embrace such initiatives in theory, in practice these are met with less enthusiasm and sometimes even reluctance, as the innovative nature of citizen initiatives often also challenges existing power structures, norms and routines. As a result, relational tensions, role confusions and governance issues arise that can severely hamper progress in local sustainability transitions. A potential strategy to move these processes forward is to adopt a collaborative approach, in which local stakeholders gradually enhance their collective capability for sustainable change in a joint learning process.
At HAN University of Applied Sciences in Nijmegen (NL) we are working with learning approaches in transdisciplinary collaborative projects focusing on sustainability transitions in neighborhoods and smaller communities. In this roundtable we will gather participants from several such projects in the Nijmegen-Arnhem region to share their experiences. To practice what we preach, the roundtable takes the form of an interactive learning session in which participants and session attendees will jointly reflect on and deliberate the opportunities and problems in building local transformative change towards more sustainable neighborhoods and communities.
