Timo Von Wirth
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4082178 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Timo Von Wirth |
| NOMBRES | Timo |
| APELLIDO | Von Wirth |
| FIRMA | VON WIRTH T |
| AFILIACIONES | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7851-4736 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 261 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The prefigurative politics of enactable sustainability transformations in the present
The concept of “prefigurative politics” invites geographers to envision transformative change through a shift in practices stemming from a micro level. This article examines and substantiates how this idea is mobilised in relation to current sustainability transformations. A large interdisciplinary group of geographers and transition scholars present topic clusters of prefigurative enablers that instigate and catalyse the enactment of transformat…
Towards multi-scalar transition management? Insights from four transition arenas in Norway’s port sector
Transition management has been applied at organisational, local, regional, and national scales. However, transition management methodology only treats scale in passing. Drawing upon experiences from four transition arenas in Norway’s port sector – three local, one national – the article describes how arena outputs differed between local and national arenas. Outputs from the national arena were significantly less specific than in the local arenas.…
Urban living labs as cracks, not doors
Urban Living Labs (ULLs) are widely promoted as experimental spaces for urban innovation, particularly in EU policy contexts. Yet their design is often shaped by current institutional logics, EU-funding structures, and sector-specific constraints, especially in transport, a domain marked by technical path dependencies and dominant narratives of efficiency and optimization. These conditions risk narrowing experimentation. This Viewpoint is written…
Ontological (in)security and sustainability transitions
This perspective presents the concept of ontological (in)security as an analytical lens to better understand implications of destabilization in sustainability transitions. As an essential human condition, ontological security functions as a firewall against destabilizing dynamics. It is a distinct type of security that connects individual and collective units of analysis and has not been addressed in the context of sustainability transitions. Bui…
Neither right nor wrong? Ethics of collaboration in transformative research for sustainable futures
Transformative research is a broad and loosely connected family of research disciplines and approaches, with the explicit normative ambition to fundamentally question the status quo, change the dominant structures, and support just sustainability transitions by working collaboratively with society. When engaging in such science-practice collaborations for transformative change in society, researchers experience ethical dilemmas. Amongst others, t…
Bridging senses of place and mobilities scholarships to inform social-ecological systems governance
Uncertainty and change are increasingly commonplace as communities respond to impacts of social-ecological change including climate change, and dangerous levels of pollution. Given the extent of these crises, new approaches are needed to support responses. Here we identify challenges and discuss insights that the nexus of Senses of place (SoP) and mobilities research offers in navigating such uncertainty. We conducted a two-round Delphi, followed…
Impacts of urban real-world labs
To address the evaluation of the societal impact of real-world labs, we present a framework developed for the analysis of structure-agency dynamics: structuration theory. Using this tool on a neighbourhood level, we assess the outcomes of six projects on co-productive city-making.Ways of evaluating the societal impact of real-world labs as a transdisciplinary and transformative research format are under discussion. We present an evaluation approa…
Stellungnahme des Netzwerks Reallabore der Nachhaltigkeit zur Reallabore-Gesetz-Initiative
Das Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK) möchte innovationsfreundliche Rahmenbedingungen für Reallabore schaffen. Im Sommer 2023 hat es dazu ein Grünbuch Reallabore veröffentlicht und einen Konsultationsprozess für ein Reallabore-Gesetz eingeleitet. Das Netzwerk Reallabore der Nachhaltigkeit begrüßt die Initiative, sieht aber zugleich erheblichen Gestaltungsbedarf. Die NaWis-Mitglieder unterstützen die hier vorgestellte Posit…
Practical wisdom and virtue ethics for knowledge co-production in sustainability science
Transformation gestalten
Zur Gestaltung von tiefgreifenden Transformationsprozessen fehlen oft handlungsleitende Kompetenzen und der Mut, Strukturen aufzubrechen. Dafür braucht es andere Lernformen und neue Räume des Lernens für nachhaltigen Wandel. Um solche zu etablieren, haben die Vereinten Nationen die Dekade des Handelns ausgerufen, in deren Rahmen zwei Projekte des Wuppertal Instituts gestartet sind: die Transformationsakademie und Humboldt n
Beyond technology
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…
An actionable understanding of societal transitions
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-01084-w
Conflicting perspectives on urban landscape quality in six urban regions in Europe and their implications for urban transitions
The European Landscape Convention urges countries to involve stakeholders including citizens in the governance of ordinary (urban) landscapes. This paper studies conflicting stakeholder perspectives on urban landscape quality in the context of urban sustainability transitions in six European urban regions in the Netherlands, Italy, France, Croatia, Belarus and the Russian Federation. Repertory grid technique helped to identify the dimensions thro…
Changing Senses of Place
Global challenges ranging from climate change and ecological regime shifts to refugee crises and post-national territorial claims are rapidly moving ecosystem thresholds and altering the social fabric of societies worldwide. This book addresses the vital question of how to navigate the contested forces of stability and change in a world shaped by multiple interconnected global challenges. It proposes that senses of place is a vital concept for su…
Experimentation or projectification of urban change? A critical appraisal and three steps forward
Urban experimentation has proliferated in recent years as a response to sustainability challenges and renewed pressures on urban governance. In many European cities, diverse and rapidly changing experimental forms (e.g. urban living laboratories, pilots, trials, experimental districts) are becoming commonplace, addressing ambitious goals for smartness, circularity, and liveability. Academically, there is a growing concern for moving beyond the fo…
Contextualising Urban Experimentation
Practices of urban experimentation are currently seen as a promising approach to making planning processes more collaborative and adaptive. The practices develop not only in the context of ideal-type concepts of urban experiments and urban labs but also organically in specific governance contexts. We present such an organic case in the city of Wuppertal, Germany, centred around a so-called change-maker initiative, ‘Utopiastadt.’ This initiative j…
Changing Senses of Place
Advancing urban transitions and transformations research
Beyond food for thought – Directing sustainability transitions research to address fundamental change in agri-food systems
Lokale Nachhaltigkeitsexperimente als raumwirksame Interventionen
Exploratives Erproben nachhaltiger Lösungen findet stets ortsgebunden statt ‐ etwa in einem Stadtquartier. Überraschenderweise wird dieser räumliche Kontext bisher kaum thematisiert. Zeit, die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Nachhaltigkeitsexperimenten und räumlichem Kontext systematisch in einem Modell zu beschreiben.Conducting local sustainability experiments establishes an explorative approach for gaining action-oriented knowledge about sustainabili…
From niche to mainstream
At the heart of transition research lies the question of how to “scale up” sustainable alternatives from a protected niche to the creation of mainstream practices.While upscaling processes are often seen as an essential element that contributes to societal transformation, upscaling itself remains a fuzzy concept.We argue that some fundamental dilemmas of upscaling can be identified, for example, the different understanding of the concept by resea…
A pluralistic and integrated approach to action-oriented knowledge for sustainability
Transformative innovation and translocal diffusion
Between fixities and flows
This paper develops a theoretical argument for how place attachments are forged and become dynamically linked to increasingly common mobility practices. First, we argue that mobilities, rather than negating the importance of place, shift our understanding of place and the habitual ways we relate to and bond with places as distinct from a conception of place attachment premised on fixity and stability. Second, we document how the body of research …
Impacts of urban living labs on sustainability transitions
Urban Living Labs (ULL) are considered spaces to facilitate experimentation about sustainability solutions. ULL represent sites that allow different urban actors to design, test and learn from socio-technical innovations. However, despite their recent proliferation in the European policy sphere, the underlying processes through which ULL might be able to generate and diffuse new socio-technical configurations beyond their immediate boundaries hav…
Transformative innovation and translocal diffusion
Urban living laboratories
The recent upsurge of interest in the experimental city as an arena within and through which urban sustainability is governed marks not only the emergence of the proliferation of forms of experimentation – from novel governance arrangements to demonstration projects, transition management processes to grassroots innovations – but also an increasing sensibility amongst the research community that urban interventions can be considered in experiment…
Beyond food for thought – Directing sustainability transitions research to address fundamental change in agri-food systems
Beyond technology
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…
An actionable understanding of societal transitions
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-01084-w
A pluralistic and integrated approach to action-oriented knowledge for sustainability
Advancing urban transitions and transformations research
Social acceptance of distributed energy systems in Swiss, German, and Austrian energy transitions
Anticipating transitions beyond the current mobility regimes
Mediating Effects Between Objective and Subjective Indicators of Urban Quality of Life
Practical wisdom and virtue ethics for knowledge co-production in sustainability science
Anticipating transitions beyond the current mobility regimes
Mediating Effects Between Objective and Subjective Indicators of Urban Quality of Life
Co-Creation Dynamics in Urban Living Labs
Citizens and urban policy makers are experimenting with collaborative ways to tackle wicked urban issues, such as today’s sustainability challenges. In this article, we consider one particular way of collaboration in an experimental setting: Urban Living Labs (ULLs). ULLs are understood as spatially embedded sites for the co-creation of knowledge and solutions by conducting local experiments. As such, ULLs are supposed to offer an arena for refle…
Urban living laboratories
The recent upsurge of interest in the experimental city as an arena within and through which urban sustainability is governed marks not only the emergence of the proliferation of forms of experimentation – from novel governance arrangements to demonstration projects, transition management processes to grassroots innovations – but also an increasing sensibility amongst the research community that urban interventions can be considered in experiment…
Between fixities and flows
This paper develops a theoretical argument for how place attachments are forged and become dynamically linked to increasingly common mobility practices. First, we argue that mobilities, rather than negating the importance of place, shift our understanding of place and the habitual ways we relate to and bond with places as distinct from a conception of place attachment premised on fixity and stability. Second, we document how the body of research …
Impacts of urban living labs on sustainability transitions
Urban Living Labs (ULL) are considered spaces to facilitate experimentation about sustainability solutions. ULL represent sites that allow different urban actors to design, test and learn from socio-technical innovations. However, despite their recent proliferation in the European policy sphere, the underlying processes through which ULL might be able to generate and diffuse new socio-technical configurations beyond their immediate boundaries hav…
Social acceptance of distributed energy systems in Swiss, German, and Austrian energy transitions
Lokale Nachhaltigkeitsexperimente als raumwirksame Interventionen
Exploratives Erproben nachhaltiger Lösungen findet stets ortsgebunden statt ‐ etwa in einem Stadtquartier. Überraschenderweise wird dieser räumliche Kontext bisher kaum thematisiert. Zeit, die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Nachhaltigkeitsexperimenten und räumlichem Kontext systematisch in einem Modell zu beschreiben.Conducting local sustainability experiments establishes an explorative approach for gaining action-oriented knowledge about sustainabili…
From niche to mainstream
At the heart of transition research lies the question of how to “scale up” sustainable alternatives from a protected niche to the creation of mainstream practices.While upscaling processes are often seen as an essential element that contributes to societal transformation, upscaling itself remains a fuzzy concept.We argue that some fundamental dilemmas of upscaling can be identified, for example, the different understanding of the concept by resea…
A pluralistic and integrated approach to action-oriented knowledge for sustainability
Transformative innovation and translocal diffusion
Changing Senses of Place
Global challenges ranging from climate change and ecological regime shifts to refugee crises and post-national territorial claims are rapidly moving ecosystem thresholds and altering the social fabric of societies worldwide. This book addresses the vital question of how to navigate the contested forces of stability and change in a world shaped by multiple interconnected global challenges. It proposes that senses of place is a vital concept for su…
Experimentation or projectification of urban change? A critical appraisal and three steps forward
Urban experimentation has proliferated in recent years as a response to sustainability challenges and renewed pressures on urban governance. In many European cities, diverse and rapidly changing experimental forms (e.g. urban living laboratories, pilots, trials, experimental districts) are becoming commonplace, addressing ambitious goals for smartness, circularity, and liveability. Academically, there is a growing concern for moving beyond the fo…
Contextualising Urban Experimentation
Practices of urban experimentation are currently seen as a promising approach to making planning processes more collaborative and adaptive. The practices develop not only in the context of ideal-type concepts of urban experiments and urban labs but also organically in specific governance contexts. We present such an organic case in the city of Wuppertal, Germany, centred around a so-called change-maker initiative, ‘Utopiastadt.’ This initiative j…
Changing Senses of Place
Advancing urban transitions and transformations research
Beyond food for thought – Directing sustainability transitions research to address fundamental change in agri-food systems
Transformation gestalten
Zur Gestaltung von tiefgreifenden Transformationsprozessen fehlen oft handlungsleitende Kompetenzen und der Mut, Strukturen aufzubrechen. Dafür braucht es andere Lernformen und neue Räume des Lernens für nachhaltigen Wandel. Um solche zu etablieren, haben die Vereinten Nationen die Dekade des Handelns ausgerufen, in deren Rahmen zwei Projekte des Wuppertal Instituts gestartet sind: die Transformationsakademie und Humboldt n
Beyond technology
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…
An actionable understanding of societal transitions
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-01084-w
Conflicting perspectives on urban landscape quality in six urban regions in Europe and their implications for urban transitions
The European Landscape Convention urges countries to involve stakeholders including citizens in the governance of ordinary (urban) landscapes. This paper studies conflicting stakeholder perspectives on urban landscape quality in the context of urban sustainability transitions in six European urban regions in the Netherlands, Italy, France, Croatia, Belarus and the Russian Federation. Repertory grid technique helped to identify the dimensions thro…
Stellungnahme des Netzwerks Reallabore der Nachhaltigkeit zur Reallabore-Gesetz-Initiative
Das Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK) möchte innovationsfreundliche Rahmenbedingungen für Reallabore schaffen. Im Sommer 2023 hat es dazu ein Grünbuch Reallabore veröffentlicht und einen Konsultationsprozess für ein Reallabore-Gesetz eingeleitet. Das Netzwerk Reallabore der Nachhaltigkeit begrüßt die Initiative, sieht aber zugleich erheblichen Gestaltungsbedarf. Die NaWis-Mitglieder unterstützen die hier vorgestellte Posit…
Practical wisdom and virtue ethics for knowledge co-production in sustainability science
Neither right nor wrong? Ethics of collaboration in transformative research for sustainable futures
Transformative research is a broad and loosely connected family of research disciplines and approaches, with the explicit normative ambition to fundamentally question the status quo, change the dominant structures, and support just sustainability transitions by working collaboratively with society. When engaging in such science-practice collaborations for transformative change in society, researchers experience ethical dilemmas. Amongst others, t…
Bridging senses of place and mobilities scholarships to inform social-ecological systems governance
Uncertainty and change are increasingly commonplace as communities respond to impacts of social-ecological change including climate change, and dangerous levels of pollution. Given the extent of these crises, new approaches are needed to support responses. Here we identify challenges and discuss insights that the nexus of Senses of place (SoP) and mobilities research offers in navigating such uncertainty. We conducted a two-round Delphi, followed…
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