Process

On the 14-15^th of September, TRANSIT’s final conference ‘Learning for Change’ took place in Rotterdam, where there was a gathering of researchers, activists, entrepreneurs, policy-makers and other individuals who share an interest in social change. The idea of a manifesto was used as an entry point to share, compare and debate thoughts and experiences on the delights and challenges of transformative social innovation. Several versions of the manifesto were shared before and after the event, and people were invited to provide input during multiple feedback rounds:

June 2017
In June 2017, a very first draft of the manifesto was shared with all 25+ TRANSIT researchers who were invited to comment and provide input based on their interviews and participant observations in the networks and initiatives under study.

July 2017
In July 2017,  a second draft of the manifesto was shared with practitioners involved in the networks and initiatives under study, who were invited to provide input and comments via email, a Word Document and/or to directly edit an open Google Document.

September 2017

Beginning of September 2017, before the TRANSIT conference, a third version of the manifesto was shared with all 250 people who registered for the conference, all of whom were invited to participate in a ‘manifesto practitioner’s assembly’. During the assembly, over 60 people across 10 tables discussed the content and process of the manifesto and provided feedback. Each table was facilitated by a table host and a note-taker. The notes of the tables were collected and used as input for the final draft of this Manifesto version 0.1.

After the conference, on the 19^th of September 2017, more than 200 people who had participated in the assembly or in the conference, or who had been involved before but not able to participate in the event, were invited to directly comment and edit the final version of the Google Document. These comments and edits that were received in the Google Document and via email were processed in the final draft of this Manifesto version 0.1.

The communication around the different versions, the processing of the feedback and comments, and the preparation of the discussion meetings, were conducted by Flor Avelino, Derk Loorbach and Chiao-Jou Lin.