Dr. Ana Slavec, InnoRenew CoE, UP IAM researcher, together with an international team of 27 researchers from several institutions, recently co-authored a new scientific article »The prefigurative politics of enactable sustainability transformations in the present«, published in the journal Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift – Norwegian Journal of Geography.

In the article they present a conceptual framework for understanding how sustainability transformations can be enacted through present-day practices that prefigure desired future societies. It identifies three key principles: multi-scalarity (linking individual, community and systemic levels), boundary transgression (across disciplines, sectors, and social spheres) and temporalities (how change unfolds and becomes institutionalised over time).

Drawing on examples from education, energy, food systems and governance, the article illustrates how small-scale initiatives can contribute to broader systemic change, while also highlighting both opportunities and limitations of prefigurative approaches in sustainability transitions research.