aalto1 untyped-item.component.html
Surprises and Dreams : workshop method to co-create community-based transformative knowledge
Loading...
Access rights
openAccess
CC BY
CC BY
Creative Commons license
Except where otherwised noted, this item's license is described as openAccess
publishedVersion
URL
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
This publication is imported from Aalto University research portal.
View publication in the Research portal (opens in new window)
View/Open full text file from the Research portal (opens in new window)
View publication in the Research portal (opens in new window)
View/Open full text file from the Research portal (opens in new window)
Unless otherwise stated, all rights belong to the author. You may download, display and print this publication for Your own personal use. Commercial use is prohibited.
Date
2025
Department
Department of Design
Major/Subject
Mcode
Degree programme
Language
en
Pages
26
Series
Polar Journal, Volume 15, issue 2, pp. 432-457
Abstract
Pressing sustainability challenges call for research methodologies that enable co-creation of transformative knowledge that that can catalyse societal and policy change. We introduce a participatory workshop method called ‘Surprises and Dreams’ and demonstrate how it can support the co-creation of systems, normative, and transformative knowledge. The method uses cognitive mapping to explore the current state of the system and potential future disruptions (systems knowledge) and includes steps for eliciting participants’ visions and aspirations (normative knowledge). Taken together this can lead towards creation of transformative knowledge that could contribute to finding acceptable solutions to locally relevant problems. In a case study, we demonstrate the application of the method on the current state and future developments in reindeer husbandry in Fennoscandia. Based on the results, we position the three types of knowledges into a Three Horizons framework and discuss how our method supports identifying and describing transformative knowledge. Our case study responds to a need to understand complex systems and normative and contested future aspirations and to achieve change towards more sustainable solutions. We conclude that our method is a promising co-creation tool, also beyond our case study, in its applicability to comparable situations when community-based knowledge is needed.
Description
Keywords
transformative knowledge, reindeer husbandry, Futures research, three horizons framework, participatory workshops
Other note
Citation
Rasmus, S, Sarkki, S, Wang, I, Burgess, P, Habeck, J O, Horstkotte, T, Jokinen, M, Matthes, H, Mettiäinen, I, Parviainen, T, Pekkarinen, A-J, Post, L, Rikkonen, T, Sorvali, J, Turunen, M, Väärälä, T & Eronen, J T 2025, 'Surprises and Dreams : workshop method to co-create community-based transformative knowledge', Polar Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 432-457. https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2025.2565959