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The Society for Social-Ecological Systems is accepting applications for its 2026 online short course, The Resilience of Urban Social-Ecological-Technological Systems. Over five days, participants will explore urban resilience through social, ecological, infrastructural, and technological perspectives. The programme will draw on the expertise of leading international scholars working on cities,…
Kerstin Tebbe, founder of Collective Mind, recently shared with us their upcoming Network Development Learning Collaborative, a five-month virtual programme for network leaders, managers, members, and others supporting collaborative networks. The programme is designed to help participants assess their network’s strengths, challenges, and opportunities; identify areas that need focused attention;…
The Mountain Research Initiative and its partners are inviting abstracts for the session Mountain Commons: Historical Development, Transformations, and New Forms of Commons in Mountain Regions at the 24th Swiss Geoscience Meeting. The session will create an interdisciplinary space for exploring the changing role of mountain commons and collective resource governance. Conceptual contributions and…
The International Long Term Ecological Research Network is inviting proposals for scientific sessions, working groups, and training activities for its fourth Open Science Meeting. Under the theme Unity in Diversity: Celebrating Long-term Resilience Across Connected Ecosystems and People, the meeting will bring together the international long-term ecological research community to exchange…
A new study by Elena Michele Bennett, Walter Reid, and colleagues invites a rethink of how global environmental assessments can better support action in a changing world. Reports such as those produced by the IPCC and IPBES play a vital role in bringing knowledge together. But as climate, biodiversity, and social challenges become more entangled, […]
Researchers Laura Pereira, Matthew Ford Gibson, and colleagues are calling for a different kind of climate and biodiversity scenario work — one that better reflects the futures people are trying to bring into being. Many dominant scenarios still begin from assumptions that leave current systems largely intact. This article asks what becomes possible when scenarios […]
A new TIPC publication by Raúl Tabarés Gutiérrez and Alejandra Boni explores how social labs can help cultivate more responsible, participatory, and place-sensitive innovation ecosystems. The article looks at social labs as spaces where people can experiment together, learn across differences, and work with the social and ethical dimensions of innovation. Rather than seeing innovation […]
In the latest AI4ST Practice Lab session, the fourth in the series, and the one that wraps up its first full arc, the participants moved from mapping possibilities to weighing whether those possibilities are worth pursuing at all. The session turned to exploring the operational and cultural conditions that determine whether a promising AI use […]
Curtis Ogden is working with Gaia Education to offer a new installment of Energy Systems Science and Practice for Just and Sustainable Communities. The online course explores how energy moves through living systems, communities, organisations, and social change work. It invites participants to look beyond energy only as a technical or infrastructure question, and to […]
The International Inter- and Transdisciplinarity Conference 2027 will take place in Évora, Portugal, from 31 May to 4 June 2027. Hosted by the University of Évora, ITD 2027 will bring together researchers, educators, practitioners, students, policymakers, and others working across inter- and transdisciplinary research and practice. The conference theme, Bridging Knowledge and Networks: Inter- and…
