In October 2023, in collaboration with TERN, we engaged five refugee women from Croatia, Chad, Syria, Ukraine, and Sudan in a one-day co-creative envisioning workshop with the Design School at London College of Communication.

The initiative served as a pilot for the Transition Living Lab, a model for training displaced people interested in becoming changemakers and agents of transition within their communities, utilising creative methods in a learning-by-doing approach.

'Envision the Transition' was conceived as the introductory session of a longer programme of activities that would serve as building blocks for the Transition Living Lab.

The workshop employed a methodology design that brought together elements of Transition Design, the Systemic Design Framework (extended double diamond), Utopia as Method, and Pluriversal Design.

The goal was to test assumptions and activities, receive feedback, and learn from the experiences of displaced people - identifying their main needs and drivers.

The workshop activities relied on Traditional Ecological Knowledge artefacts that participants brought, to develop utopian and pluriversal visions of the transitions they aimed to lead, understanding transition in terms of ecological and social justice.