Print Email Facebook Twitter Combining backcasting and transition management in the community arena Title Combining backcasting and transition management in the community arena Author Quist, J.N. Wittmayer, J. Van Steenbergen, F. Loorbach, D. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Engineering Systems and Services Date 2013-10-07 Abstract This paper presents the theoretical basis and the methodological framework of the community arena, a co-creation tool for sustainable behaviour by local communities and consumers. The community arena focuses on articulating, confronting and connecting individual inner contexts in a participatory process so as to influence both how individuals think as well as how they behave. The premise is that by raising awareness and sensitivity amongst engaged citizens about other ways to look at reality, they open up to new possibilities to think about their individual behaviour in the broader societal context. After comparing backcasting and transition management, the community arena methodology is described building on elements of transition management, backcasting, as well as adding elements from learning, and needs & capability approaches. As part of an EU funded InContext project the methodology has been tested in three pilot areas in the Netherlands, Austria and Germany; some illustrations from the Dutch pilot in the deprived neighbourhood of Carnisse in the city of Rotterdam are presented, before drawing conclusions and addressing broader relevance of the outcomes. Subject backcastingtransition managementcommunity arenasustainable living To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:abde24ee-a1c4-4a9b-929c-9d5c48f4fb36 Source Proceedings of SCORAI Europe & InContext Workshop, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 7-8 October 2013; Sustainable Consumption Transitions Series, Issue 3 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2013 The Author(s) Files PDF Proceedings_InContext_SCO ... p33-54.pdf 730.13 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:abde24ee-a1c4-4a9b-929c-9d5c48f4fb36/datastream/OBJ/view