The TIS programs in research and education take a non-disciplinary approach to identify positive case studies of innovation and transition. We work in close collaboration with the communities that have found sustainability solutions. We claim as our area of competence the mechanisms that lead several major transitions: from knowledge to action, from design to implementation, from innovation to sustainability, from disengagement to participation, and from collapse to recovery.
The TIS framework can guide, map, trace, and verify information and resource flows between locations, processes, and agents. Our projects have promoted community decision-making, innovative policy design, transformative actions, and ecosystem adaptation in places as diverse as diverse as Hunan Province and Murcia, Spain. Our improvement of the circuits of information and expertise between the local and global scales is a contribution to the work done by the UNESCO BRIDGES Coalition on Sustainability.
Programs
- Code A Program (responsible: Philippe C. Forêt)
- Green Bridge Association (responsible: Philippe C. Forêt)
Associated research partners
- MOST (UNESCO Management of Social Transformations Programme)
- UNESCO BRIDGES
- HNUST (Hunan University of Science and Technology | Faculty of Architecture and Art Design)
- ERC (Ecosystem Restoration Communities) (joint project: ERC-FI)
Recent books
- 傅雷. 图解承德 — 清代的景观营建. 上海: 复旦大学出版社, 2022. (PF. Illustrating Chengde: Landscape Construction During the Qing Dynasty. Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2022. Chinese edition of Mapping Chengde.)
- Singh, Pardeep & Yadav, Neha. (2024). The Climate-Health-Sustainability Nexus: Understanding the Interconnected Impact on Populations and the Environment. 10.1007/978-3-031-56564-9.
Versions exist in EN English, FR French, DE German and ZH Chinese.