Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Transdisciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environments (TAPESTRY)

Tapestry的目标是研究在高度不确定的边缘环境中如何从下向下发生变化。气候变化的不确定性，特别是地方一级的不确定性，是社会和生态系统可持续性的主要挑战之一，需要进行系统性的变革性变革。虽然不确定性可能会加剧人们对未来的焦虑，但它也可以提供一个创造转型和深层次结构性变革的机会。Tapestry专注于印度和孟加拉国的三个转型领域-孟买、孙德尔本斯和库奇的脆弱沿海地区-在这些地区，混合联盟和创新做法正在重新想象可持续发展并激励社会变革。Tapestry是在英国、印度、孟加拉国、挪威和日本成立的跨国跨学科财团。它的概念创新在于将转型作为实践来研究，将自下而上的变革和被边缘化人群的机构放在中心位置，并通过分析共同产生的转型如何扩大和扩大规模。该项目与呼吁的主题1和3特别相关，即治理、福祉、生活质量、特性和与向可持续发展转型有关的价值观。所有这些都是印度(中低收入国家)和孟加拉国(最不发达国家)面临的福利和发展挑战的核心。该项目的成果和影响将为改善受气候变化相关不确定性影响的边缘化人口的生活质量的进程提供信息，在所有合作伙伴之间建立行动和能力，同时产生证据，说明如何在边缘环境中进行自下而上的转变。

The objective of TAPESTRY is to examine how transformation may arise from below in marginal environments with high levels of uncertainty. Climate change uncertainties, especially at the local level, constitute one of the main challenges to the sustainability of societies and ecosystems, calling for systemic transformative changes. While uncertainty can exacerbate anxieties about the future, it can also provide an opportunity to create transformation and deep structural change. TAPESTRY focuses on three patches of transformation in India and Bangladesh - vulnerable coastal areas of Mumbai, the Sundarbans and Kutch - where hybrid alliances and innovative practices are reimagining sustainable development and inspiring societal transformation. TAPESTRY is organised in a transnational and transdisciplinary consortium across the UK, India, Bangladesh, Norway and Japan. Its conceptual innovation lies in studying transformation as praxis, by putting bottom-up change and the agency of marginalised people at the centre and by analysing how co-produced transformations can be scaled up and out. The project is particularly relevant to theme 1 and 3 of the call, i.e. governance, wellbeing, quality of life, identity and values in relation to transformations to sustainability. All these lie at the heart of the welfare and development challenges faced by India (a lower middle income country) and Bangladesh (least developed country). The project's outcomes and impact will inform processes to improve the quality of life of marginalised people affected by climate change related uncertainties, build action and capacity amongst all partners whilst generating evidence of how bottom-up transformation can take place in marginal environments.