Research positions

Current

The LEVER project at the Kassel Institute for Sustainability investigates how to organize the knowledge co-creation process in a way that actively supports transformative change and how values can be used as leverage points for sustainability transformation. We work in an international and transdisciplinary team that blends scientific thinking and solution-orientation.

 

Positions

Dominant research modes are not enough to respond to current sustainability crises. Between studying change and contributing to change, sustainability science seeks both to analytically understand sustainability problems, but also to design interventions that can contribute solution-options to these problems. However, most of the sustainability research to date has largely focused on descriptive-analytical knowledge. Knowledge about how to intervene in order to reach a desirable vision (i.e., transformation knowledge) is typically missing.