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Change will be contested. What matters is what we do next

Welcome to the practitioner's page

This page contains quick reads, long reads, and resources for practitioners. It is intended for folks looking to influence systemic change. It's not agriculture-specific. 

TRANSITION DESIGN PRACTICE TOOLKIT

In pursuit of irresistible futures and shared ground

Field Guide

 

This 120-page, illustrated field guide is like a guided tour of my thesis - just with more pictures and poetry. It outlines the discipline of Transition Design and its elements of practice. It offers a demonstration of Transition Design practice through a case study in Regenerative Agriculture. Contact me to purchase a hard copy.


Browse the paper below, or click the link to download the PDF.

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Change presents an opportunity to recalibrate

2025 Article - Transition Design: Elements of Practice

This paper catalogues emerging practices in Transition Design, or design for sustainability transitions (DxST). Drawing from 35 empirical cases, it highlights trends in project formats and methods. The paper highlights five key dynamics that make practicing Transition Design challenging. 


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Making change with people, place, and purpose

READINGS

Transition

How we work, together

How we work, together

Indigenous wisdom, Social justice, food sovereignty and self-determination

  • YUNKAPORTA, TYSON Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
  • AUSTRALIAN FOOD SOVEREIGNTY ALLIANCE, Farming Democracy
  • Climate Justice Alliance
  • Movement Generation


Transition research and design

  • IRWIN, TERRY. The Emerging Transition Design Approach
  • DAHLE, CHERYL Future of Fish Case Study
  • DORST, KEES Frame Innovation
  • GEELS, F.W. Multi-level approach
  • ESCOBAR, ARTURO Designs for the Pluriverse
  • Participatory processes, co-design and participatory action research


Systems thinking

  • MEADOWS, DONELLA Thinking in systems (Leverage points)
  • STROH, DAVID PETER Systems Thinking for Social Change
  • FSG, Water of Systems Change
  • TALEB, NICHOLAS NASSIM Antifragile: Things that gain from disorder
  • RAWORTH, KATE Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

How we work, together

How we work, together

How we work, together

Collective action

  • place-based Collective Impact
  • SCHARMER, OTTO Theory U
  • AcdB Second Road
  • TUCKMAN, BRUCE Group Dynamics
  • KAHANE, ADAM Power and Love
  • HASSAN, ZAID The Social Labs Revolution
  • VIVIAN, PAT AND HORMANN, SHANA Organizational Trauma and Healing


The practitioner's stance

  • SCHÖN, DONALD The Reflective Practitioner
  • ROGERS, CARL R. On becoming a person
  • SENGE, PETER M. The Fifth Discipline, The Art & Practice of the Learning Organisation
  • EISENSTEIN, CHARLES. The more beautiful world our hearts know is possible
  • LAND, CLARE Decolonising Solidarity: Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles

Societal changes are systems challenges


We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea, sky and community. We acknowledge past harms and that the land was never ceded. In the spirit of reconciliation, we live in hope for the incredible possibilities open to us all if we listen to the wisdom that we might be privileged to encounter. We pay our respect to elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 


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