The TIS programs in research and education take a non-disciplinary approach to identify positive case studies of innovation and transition. We work in close collaboration with the communities that have found sustainability solutions. We claim as our area of competence the mechanisms that lead several major transitions: from knowledge to action, from design to implementation, from innovation to sustainability, from disengagement to participation, and from collapse to recovery.
The TIS framework can guide, map, trace, and verify information and resource flows between locations, processes, and agents. Our projects have promoted community decision-making, innovative policy design, transformative actions, and ecosystem adaptation in places as diverse as diverse as Hunan Province and the Hudson Valley. Our improvement of the circuits of information and expertise between the local and global scales is a contribution to the work done by the UNESCO BRIDGES Coalition on Sustainability.
Programs
- Code A Program (responsible: Philippe C. Forêt)
- Green Bridge Association (responsible: Philippe C. Forêt)
Associated research partners
- UNESCO BRIDGES (MOST | Management of Social Transformations Programme)
- Bard College (Graduate Programs in Sustainability)
- HNUST (Hunan University of Science and Technology | School of Architecture and Art Design)
Recent publications
- PF. Mapping the Trans-Himalayas. The Challenges of Doing Climate History in the Early Twentieth Century. Winwick: The White Horse Press, Cambridge, 2024. (In progress. Book proposal accepted.)
- PF. “Ten Principles: Methodology and Practices for Innovation in the Mapping Sciences.” Julia Benz and Jelena Ristic Trjkovic, eds. Imagining, Designing and Teaching Regenerative Futures. Creative Approaches and inspirations from Around the World. Lisbon: Nova University of Lisbon, 2024.
- PF. “A Methodology for Lipography: Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville’s Mémoire sur la Chine (1776).” Julia Benz and Jelena Ristic Trjkovic, eds. Imagining, Designing and Teaching Regenerative Futures. Creative Approaches and inspirations from Around the World. Lisbon: Nova University of Lisbon, 2024.
- PF. “Seven Cups: Methodology and Practices in Tea Consumption.” Julia Benz and Jelena Ristic Trjkovic, eds. Imagining, Designing and Teaching Regenerative Futures. Creative Approaches and inspirations from Around the World. Lisbon: Nova University of Lisbon, 2024.