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Interested in why or how Imagination may matter to transformations? A quick thread on Imagination and Transformation based on what @ManjanaM and I learned from writing our Editorial in a Special Issue hosted in @Elementa in late 2020 doi.org/10.1525/elemen…
A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of attending #ESG2021. Learned so much from various sessions & @cchange’s amazing keynote! As I prepped for a session on Imagination, I was drawn back to our findings. For those that missed our session, some highlights:
Initially, we had framed part of our paper around a triple failure of imagination: 1) a failure by intl negotiators, policy folks, etc to understand cc as anything but linear (see @ManjanaM's book for insights on cognitive aspects of global clim gov: bit.ly/3A4HqM6
I've heard this week @ESG_Project #ESG2021 that Leverage Points are mechanistic. I’d like to offer a rebuttal: LPs help us to integrate knowledge framings and grapple with complexity in systems change for #transformation 1/9
There are high profile papers (I wont link here!) that have reduced LPs to a mechanistic understanding. These are well cited and pop up everywhere (and make me sad inside). But that’s a limitation of the use, NOT the concept itself. 2/9
Here are some alternatives that deal with complexity and help us to ‘dance’ with systems, as Meadows encouraged us to do.donellameadows.org/archives/danci… 3/9
