Transformative Social Innovation & New Economies

July 11 2017

The ESEE 2017 conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics  took place in Budapest from 21st-23rd of June, bringing together diverse scholars to discuss critical insights on economic, socio-ecological challenges, degrowth and social movements.  DRIFT’s assistant professor dr. Flor Avelino gave a keynote presentation on Transformative Social Innovation & New Economies, sharing some of the outcomes from the TRANSIT research project with a focus on the case-study of the ecovillage movement. 

A Youtube video of the talk can be viewed below:

You can find the PDF of the presentation slides here:

 

To read recent publications on transformative social innovation & new economies, see:

• Avelino, F., J.M. Wittmayer, B. Pel, P. Weaver, A. Dumitru, A. Haxeltine, R. Kemp, M.S. Jørgensen, T. Bauler, S. Ruijsink, T. O’Riordan (2017), Transformative Social Innovation and (Dis)Empowerment, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, available online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.05.002
• Longhurst, N., Avelino, F., Wittmayer, J., Weaver, P., Dumitru, A., Heilscher, S., Cipolla, C., Afonso, R., Kunze, I. and Elle, M. (2016), Experimenting with alternative economies: four emergent counter-narratives of urban economic development, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 22, 69-74
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343517300635
• http://www.transitsocialinnovation.eu/working-papers