A5103159933- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Delphi Technique in Research
- Innovative Education and Learning Practices
- Innovation, Technology, and Society
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Engineering Education and Curriculum Development
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Organizational Learning and Leadership
Chalmers University of Technology
2020-2025
Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimulating societal changes needed to address challenges like climate change. In this we used a novel futures-oriented participatory approach that asked what future envisioned systems might need look how get there. Findings suggest will be much more...
There are growing claims that meaningfully engaging with complex sustainability challenges requires change of a systemic nature. In governing transitions to sustainability, laboratories in real world contexts presence and promise. Yet, they span an array contexts, conceptualisations cases, making it difficult find relate labs across disciplines. Moreover, is unclear how these vary their approaches the importance which has been voiced by community. addressing concerns, we adopted broad...
Sustainability is high on the political agenda, with its analytical and practical importance underscored in field of sustainability transitions. Experiments, arenas, laboratories are frequently highlighted as real-world objects to investigate place. Despite existing lab studies, attempts at comparison empirical level remain unconvincing. Here, remains oversimplified, warranting further investigation unpack how labs compare their orientation towards sustainability. This article presents a...
Sustainability transformations involve wicked issues characterised by an absence of definite problem framings or solutions. Engineers play a crucial role in addressing such situations. However, engineers often lack the emotional capabilities to navigate open-ended and complex adequately. In this paper, we focus on challenges engineering students' learning sustainability issues. We explore how scaffolding can support students co-creating new ways handling wickedness via expansive learning....
Purpose While sustainability-oriented education is increasingly placing importance on engaging students in inter- and transdisciplinary learning processes with societal actors authentic challenges the centre, little research attends to how what learn such educational initiatives. This paper aims address this by opening “black box” of a Challenge Lab curriculum transformational sustainability ambitions. Design/methodology/approach Realist evaluation was used as an analytical frame that takes...
Purposeful transformative change on a level of societal systems, structures and practices is called for in response to contemporary sustainability challenges. Sustainability transition labs arenas represent particular set governance innovations seeking foster systemic based deliberate engagement multiple actors around complex issues concern. Most aim long-term contributions addressing persistent challenges transitioning into sustainability, yet are seldomly evaluated whether, how what...
Learning is often a component, and sometimes an explicit goal, of sustainability transition projects. Despite growing interest in designing, facilitating, evaluating such exploratory initiatives with respect to their systemic, less work has focused on how support learning capacity-building among its partaking actors institutions including building experimental governance capacity. In this paper, we aim better understand transformative ambitions relate influence institutions. We draw from the...
Complex sustainability challenges may never be fully solved, rather requiring continuous, adaptive, and reflexive responses over time. Engagement of this nature departs from well-structured problems that entail expected solutions; here, focus shifts toward ill-structured or ill-defined issues characterized by wickedness. In the context complex challenges, inadequate absent framing has performative implications on action. By overlooking value framing, eventual not only fall short; they even...