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A new concept of transition

Actions taken by humans are not independent from the environment in which they take place. Instead, actions are connected, influenced and sometimes determined by the circumstances in which humans are embedded. Thus, in order to understand human behavior within the energy transition, we have to understand these complex interconnections. Research clearly indicates that actions for behavior, these form institutions. In turn, institutions form behavior and worldviews. Accordingly, there is a mutual relationship between actions on the individual level and some higher order organizational level.

The question of transformation is not one of either top down or bottom up, but one of integrating both. Likely the energy transition will not take place if left to an individualization of the problem. The transition will likely neither take place if dictated from above. Therefore, research needs to investigate how both levels interact. Where are barriers to change, where are leverage points, what could be supportive mechanisms? These are the questions that we intend to answer.

The Energy Transition Lab provides room for risky and novel research. This includes providing room for the contestation of incumbent concepts within transition theory. In this respect, we take on the challenge to develop a new concept to understand transition. This concept embraces the signs of time and challenges old economic thinking and technology myopia in order to break lock-ins supported by an outdated narrative.

The concept was presented at the following conferences:

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