Transition Map: Regenerative Agriculture, Midwest USA.

We are approaching the biggest ecological collapse in 65 million years. The urgency of this moment demands a different kind of thinking — one that puts life at the centre of every decision. In conversation with Standard Deviation, we explore visions for a regenerative future, and what it means to give back much more than we take.

A brief backgrounder on transition mapping

In practical terms, this type of mapping — instead of representing the current state of the system, as most system maps do — highlights the underlying drivers and blockers of change of any system transition, enabling us to more effectively pinpoint the strategic intervention areas which can support that tra

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Systemic challenges — The loops and patters that the interaction of these transition factors point you to are the systemic challenges. These are the places where the system is deeply “stuck”. They are deep-rooted, persistent and interconnected. They are critical for capital holders to address in order to support system transformation. And critical

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The Systems Lab serves as a dedicated action-research platform that explores how to shift enabling conditions to facilitate place-based change. It aims to unlock conditions to accelerate impact across the Earthshots and at a whole-of-city scale.