Combining backcasting and transition management in the community arena

Combining backcasting and transition management in the community arena

Quist, J.N.
Wittmayer, J.
Van Steenbergen, F.
Loorbach, D.

Technology, Policy and Management

Engineering Systems and Services

2013-10-07

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.

backcasting
transition management
community arena
sustainable living

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:abde24ee-a1c4-4a9b-929c-9d5c48f4fb36

Proceedings of SCORAI Europe & InContext Workshop, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 7-8 October 2013; Sustainable Consumption Transitions Series, Issue 3

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