Case Study Material: Kenya
GoST workshop on policy pathways in urban transformation in Kenya, November 2021
Workshop objectives:
- Test and validate the picture obtained in our research, of key contrasting dimensions in “urban transformations in Kenya”
- Identify plural insights and implications in this area that are applicable in other sectors
- Map-out pathways that address the identified dimensions
Key questions:
- What contrasting dimensions in Urban Transformation exist?
- What are the divergent dimensions of sustainable transformation in other sectors?
- What policy pathways can build on ongoing research and practice to inform policy?
GoST stakeholder workshop in Nairobi: Imagining transformations to sustainability in energy, agriculture and cities, October 2019
What drives transformations to sustainability? Some reflections from recent discussions in Nairobi
by Andy Stirling, Nov 2019
What is ‘social transformation’? Under what conditions might it be ‘good’ … or ‘bad’? What might be the added value of – and the implications for – sustainability? According to whose imaginations (and resulting analysis) should such queries be settled? And what might the answers mean in practice? In October 2019, the Africa Sustainability Hub at the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) in Nairobi organised an unusually lively, thought-provoking and inspiring event tackling exactly these thorny questions. This first in a three-part series of blogposts reflects on some issues raised.
Alternative imaginings of transformation: opening emancipatory spaces for sustainability politics
by Andy Stirling, Nov 2019
This is the second in a three-part series of blogposts reflecting on discussions at a great workshop in October 2019, convened in Nairobi by the Africa Sustainability Hub of the African Centre for Technology Studies. Drawing on work undertaken in the wider ‘Governance of Socio-technical Transformations’ (GOST) project, one key idea that helped frame and motivate these discussions was the notion of the ‘socio-technical imaginary’.
Sustainability, transformation and power: rebalancing expertise with democratic struggle
by Andy Stirling, Nov 2019
In ways that are explored in the first and second blogpost in this three-part series, the recent workshop organised by the Africa Sustainability Hub (ASH) on the ‘governance of transformations to sustainability’, embodied in the spirit of its own discussions, some of the key driving values of sustainability itself: solidarity, ambition and hope.