Governance of Sociotechnical Transformations

社会技术转型治理（GoST）项目将重点关注与可持续发展至关重要的三个领域的转型进程，特别是与全球南方国家迫切需要相关的领域：能源系统、农业和城市数字基础设施。每一项都涉及复杂的南北联系，必须更好地理解这些联系，以促进全球可持续性努力。采用系统的比较方法，GoST将使用社会技术想象力作为概念工具，以理解集体对转型的想象如何决定了当前的条件。这三个重点领域的许多挑战都与普遍的想象有关，解决方案可能需要全新的想象。通过对五个国家（德国、印度、肯尼亚、英国、美国）的两个相互关联的转型参数（维度和时间性）的分析，每个国家的领先研究中心将与主要利益相关者合作，研究每个国家每个转型焦点实例中想象状态和实际状态之间的差异。通过这些镜头重新思考转型，GoST提出了一种方法论上的创新，综合的，基于经验的方法，超越了通常将转型描述为线性发展过程的特征。预期结果和影响：GoST将在可选择的途径中展示可行的选择，以实现朝着可持续发展的社会进步转型，并就如何在每个选定的领域中最好地管理这些转型产生直接的实际重要性：由谁（呼叫主题1），以什么目的，通过什么手段(3)，以及受影响群体的福利后果(2)。

The Governance of Sociotechnical Transformations (GoST) project will focus on transformation processes in three areas of crucial relevance to sustainable development, relating in particular to pressing imperatives in countries of the Global South: energy systems, agriculture, and urban digital infrastructures. Each implicates intricate North-South linkages that must be better understood for global sustainability efforts. Adopting a systematic comparative approach, GoST will use sociotechnical imaginaries as a conceptual tool to make sense of how collective imaginations of transformation have determined present conditions.Many challenges in the three focal areas are related to the prevailing imaginary, and solutions may require radically new imaginaries. Through analysis of two interlinked parameters of transformation (dimensionality and temporality) across five nations (Germany, India, Kenya, UK, US), leading research centers in each will examine, in cooperation with key stakeholders, the differences between imagined and experienced states in each focal instance of transformation in each country. By rethinking transformation through these lenses, GoST presents a methodologically innovative,integrative, empirically grounded approach that goes beyond usual characterizations of transformation as a linear process of development.Expected outcomes and impacts: GoST will demonstrate feasible choices among alternative pathways for enacting socially progressive transformations towards sustainability, producing insights of immediate practical importance regarding how such transformations can best be governed in each selected area: by whom (Call Theme 1), to what ends, by what means (3), and with what welfare consequences for affected groups (2).