Transitions²: Bringing Together the Digital and the Ecological Transitions

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The ecological transition has a goal, but not the path to get there.The digital transition transforms everything, but knows not into what.

Each one needs the other!

The Situation Is Bad…And Shows Little Signs of Progress

Our Upper & Lower "Planetary Boundaries"

Oxfam /http://www.kateraworth.com

Living On 2000 Watts(Saul Griffith, 2008)

A Systemic Issue

Digital & Environmental

Source:OECD

What Can Digital Culture Bring to Ecology?

Systematic Exploration Multi-source Improvements

Fast, global, low-costdeployment

Interconnectionw/other projects

Collaborative Quality Control

Legal designs favouringdiffusionTools

Templates

Platforms

Standards

Win-win cooperation

Positive-sumdisruption

Value-exchangenetworks

Mass-Collaborationtools & experience

… WHAT ELSE?

Agility

Digital "Levers" vs. the Issues

OPTIMAL

SMARTSOFT

OPEN

EMPOWERING

& DISTRIBUTED

DISRUPTIVEAGILE

2-Ways Enrichment

DIGITAL ECOLOGY

Desirable, Diverse,Fun Futures

People-PoweredChallenges

From Tech toTechno-Social Drive

SystemicThinking

Multifactor Metrics& Accounting

Scaling (direct& networked)

Prosumers& Commons

A Collaborative Platform:www.transitions2.net

Challenges

Factor 4 Innovation Act Local Open Models for Sustainability

What if innovation was the key to unlocking a sustainable

future? How would it change environmental issues, and how

would such a goal change innovation itself?

What if digital tools and methods became the engines of local ecological transitions,

empowering their stakeholders, facilitating

participation, networking and scaling projects?

What if open economic models were key to solving

environmental issues ? What would it take?

Breathe your City Active Mobilities Also, in 2016…

What if bottom-up collaboration, entrepreneurial

innovation, and public intervention, improved

knowledge as well as action on the link between pollution and

health?

What if cycling became the focus of innovative services

and uses, contributing to sustainability as well as job

creation?

IT'S ON YOU!

www.transitions2.net