Beyond the Horizon of Possibility

A lot of people feel that the gap between “what needs to be done” and “what we can do” is hard to bridge, not least at local and regional levels.

Beyond the Horizon of Possibility workshop practice will help you to make sustainability transitions feel possible and to create a local context in which interest can turn into action, together with others, including and inviting people who have not engaged with these issues before.

Some ideas to practise Beyond the horizon of possibility

Beyond the Horizon of Possibility is a workshop method for supporting exploratory conversations about sustainability transitions in different contexts as a district, village, town, workplace or region, to inspire and engage more people in local efforts towards a regenerative low carbon society. The workshop can be organised on-site (face-to-face) or remotely (online). 

The workshop is based on counterfactual history or past-casting, making the assumption that the financial crisis of 2008 was actually an energy crisis and that we acted accordingly, with the result that we today only use half of the oil compared to what we actually do. 

Transition Network Sweden, together with researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm Sweden, has developed this workshop method, where different local stakeholders work together on a thought experiment aimed at reducing this gap, thereby stimulating and planting seeds for action. 

Join the online webinar

Beyond the Horizon of Possibility · July 17th

Pella Thiel will be sharing about the workshop methodology of Beyond the Horizon of Possibility, designed to make sustainability transitions feel possible and to create a local context in which interest can turn into action.

Event info and booking

Join us on July 17th at 14:00 Universal Time Coordinated for an engaging webinar designed to explore Beyond the Horizon of Possibility and how to put that in practise.

Please contact us to practise@transitionmovement.org if you'd like to support live interpretation into another language yourself or have a contact who could do it. Thank you!

You can use the below resources to become more skilled at this. Explore them at your own leisure, before or after checking out the workshop happening on July 17th.

• Beyond the Horizon of Possibility dedicated webpage
• Future studies and scenario planning with Elina Eriksson
• Bendor, R., Eriksson, E., & Pargman, D. (2021). Looking backward to the future: On past-facing approaches to futuring. Futures, 125, 102666. 
• Eriksson, E., & Pargman, D. (2018). Meeting the future in the past-using counterfactual history to imagine computing futures. In Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Computing within Limits (pp. 1-8) (open access).
• Pargman, D., Eriksson, E., Höök, M., Tanenbaum, T. J., Pufal, M., & Wangel, J. (2017). What if there had only been half the oil? Rewriting history to envision the consequences of peak oil. Energy Research & Social Science, 31, 170-178.
• From What if to What next? - Rob Hopkins' Climate Optimism, Skeptics Path podcast episode.

The Transition Movement Virtual Platform can provide opportunities to keep in touch and keep exploring this topic together.