The Transformation-lab in Xochimilco social-ecological system

Our “Transformation laboratory” (T-Lab) is a participatory space where new agency is activated in relation to a stagnant sustainability challenge to generate intentional bottom-up transformations. The emergence of T-Labs as genuine bottom-up transformative spaces involves changes at multiple levels (individual, collective, social-ecological).

Here we present a set of participatory research tools to elicit and present information that could help agents to see their social-ecological position and role, and to identify the practices they share with others within specific social networks, and spaces of action.

Agency Network Analysis

Hiveplots and dendrograms

Q-Methodology

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• El Laboratorio de Transformación en el Sistema Socio-Ecológico de Xochimilco, Ciudad de México: Narrativa del proceso y guía metodológica (English version: The Transformation Laboratory of the social-ecological system of Xochimilco, Mexico City: Description of the process and methodological guide)

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