A5093926632- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Technische Universität Dresden
2024
Disruptions (systemic disturbances) are crucial to initiate and accelerate sustainability transformations of large-scale social systems (be they socio-ecological, socio-technical, or socio-institutional). Their emergence, characteristics effects strongly relate the role agents who aim disrupt transform status quo, which thus possess what we call disruptive agency. In this paper, highlight epistemic dimension agency in transformations, first by conceptualizing as outsiders with respect system...
The concept of disruption with which we work in DOUbT (a sub-project the research alliance TUDiSC, an excellence measure TU Dresden) is related to transformations social systems, by hope shed more light on sustainability. In this think piece, first clarify context our conceptualization (section 1), present definition disruptions 2), and note some upshots for project 3).