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This blog is a re-use of the text posted by Niko Schäpke and Ioan Fazey: Visions of knowledge systems for life on Earth and how to get there, published in: Integration and Implementation Insights. How should
More than 500 scientists and scholars from over 30 countries, including myself, signed a letter published in The Guardian and Le Monde in December 2020. In this letter we warn for societal disruption & collapse due
The RECOMS Early Stage Researchers are organizing an online Winter School on ‘Creating Alternative Urban Imaginaries. From ideas to practices and back’. During the lectures and workshops of the school participants will explore the dialectical relation
Stephen Leitheiser, University of Groningen. It’s becoming more and more clear to me that we all have a lot of work to do. Unable to travel home over the past year, I’ve watched from afar as
Stephen Leitheiser, RECOMS fellow. While many were worried about the supplies of toilet paper in the early stages of the pandemic, those of us who had been sounding the alarm on global food system vulnerabilities began
Christian Lamker, University of Groningen The turbulent year 2020 makes it hard to be confident about imaginations of the distant future, the future processes that transform places in our cities and regions and the impacts that
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 765389. RECOMS supported the technical development, hosting, and maintenance of the blog.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 674962. SUSPLACE supported the design of the blog.
Initiative: Lummina Horlings and Gwenda vd Vaart. Design: Phanatique