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Co-Designing Transition Experiments

Depth · what it can open○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readinessany
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional

With a printable card deck and practical guidelines, teams co-design transition experiments — innovation projects that start from a societal challenge and treat learning as the core strategy — from framing through experiment design to reflection, over multiple sessions.

Practical

Time
360 min
Group
330 · small-group
Settings
in-person, online
Materials
Printed card deck; sticky notes
Mechanisms
systems-sensing, behavioral-rehearsal, dialogic-encounter
Change scope
state → skill · program-embedded

Origin & where it lives

Guido Knibbe & the UvA Placemaking team, Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA); inspired by the Ex-tra project card deck; transition-management research lineage — Transition management / experimentation

Instructions: open online

In this directory via Transition Makers Toolbox

status: checked · added 2026-08-25