SHiFT

SHiFT proposes the creation of a transdisciplinary Hub to address existing challenges in fostering timely social transformations in the face of climate change. This includes delivering a mission-oriented plan focused on actions, initiatives, and the creation of digital content. The Hub is composed of a core group of transdisciplinary researchers and practitioners in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) and their extended networks, aiming to unfold the benefits of engaging with transformation practice ideas across diverse social, political, economic, environmental, and technological contexts. From the outset, the Hub recognises that these categories are often blurred in practice, and seeks to explore the nexus between them and their impact on different systems and regimes.

The SHiFT Hub will focus on:

• Knowledge exchange and shared learning on ‘critical practices’, achieved through the identification of and engagement with real-world problem-solving solutions. These promote flexible, adaptive, multi-scalar, and multi-temporal terminologies, drawing on practice-based learning, tacit and experiential knowledge, and hybrid approaches;
• Expanding networks and cooperation through inclusive, cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary, and context-sensitive exchanges. This will leverage multiple social planes in both offline and online environments to contribute to and benefit from existing collaborative platforms, while also tuning into and amplifying climate action networks to explore critical exchange dialogues and partnerships;
• Enhancing transferability capacities by leveraging best practices in online and offline communication, engagement, and co-creation through and with the arts and society, to enrich the sharing of knowledge and embodied experience in teaching and learning;
• The Hub aims to foster greater transfer value through the identification of collaborative work tools and creative processes.

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