{"id":26548,"date":"2017-10-07T10:32:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T15:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26548"},"modified":"2017-10-07T10:32:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T15:32:51","slug":"want-to-change-the-system-become-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26548","title":{"rendered":"Want to Change the System? \u2018Become the System\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Want to Change the System? \u2018Become the System\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We live in turbulent times: many certainties are disappearing and changes are difficult to understand. Can transition management help us to explain where the world is heading? Derk Loorbach, director of the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, talks about the mechanisms, risks, and trends necessitated by transitioning towards a more sustainable world. \u201cIf you want to change the system, you should eventually be willing to become the system,\u201d he says.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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How do you define transition?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A transition is a radical, revolutionary, and long-term change. The transition from dictatorship to democracy, from mobility from horse and carriage to car, from small-scale decentralized energy system to central fossil energy system, from small-scale agriculture to industrial agriculture \u2014 these are very big changes that are technological but also social, institutional, economic.Many developments occur simultaneously, but not everything changes from one day to another, sometimes it takes decades. The great revolutions in history, the political or industrial revolutions, can thus be understood as a transition.<\/p>\n

According to the conceptual framework you use, at some point in history an entire system \u2014 politics, economics, technology, and everything related \u2014 gets stuck and shifts to new system with completely new rules?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Systems have a dynamic equilibrium, in which many small and gradual changes occur. There are dominant values \u200b\u200band structures that give a lot of stability, it is something that cannot be changed easily. Yet, at some point, the system itself gets under pressure to change, and the system itself resists against these changes. This means that the pressure becomes so high that at a certain moment the whole system transitions to a different phase, a completely new kind of equilibrium. This transition process is not gradual. A slow change is followed by a chaotic period of severe changes when different processes reinforce each other, until slow adjustments finally occur in a new stable phase.<\/p>\n

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Want to Change the System? \u2018Become the System\u2019 We live in turbulent times: many certainties are disappearing and changes are difficult to understand. Can transition management help us to explain where the world is heading? Derk Loorbach, director of the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, talks about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16341,4609,11008,11563,7256,3721,809],"class_list":["post-26548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-bart-grugeon-plana","tag-change","tag-equilibrium","tag-shareable","tag-system-dynamics","tag-systems","tag-transition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26549,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26548\/revisions\/26549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}