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Transformative Cities is an opportunity for progressive local governments, municipalist coalitions, social movements and civil society organizations to popularize and share their experiences of tackling and finding solutions to our planet’s systemic economic, social, political and ecological crisis. For more visit: transformativecities.org.
The initiative draws on the emerging wave of transformative political practices taking place at municipal level worldwide, by launching a unique award process that will ensure that the lessons and inspiration of these cities becomes viral.
Please find the open call for applications to the Transformative Cities Initiative here.
We face a systemic economic, political and ecological crisis. Yet nation states and transnational institutions have increasingly been captured by private corporate interests which only exacerbates the crises. As a result electorates feel increasingly disempowered and disaff ected by electoral politics.
TNI believes that the city can be a key space for the promotion of transformative political and economic practices. Cities can both model transformation and collectively have the power to bring us towards a world of peace, equity and democracy on a sustainable planet brought about and sustained by an informed and engaged citizenry.
We hope to organize a new model of awards, one which is participatory, inspirational, and rooted in exchange and learning
Our aims are big but we will start small, the first edition of the award (2017) will look at 3 issues: Energy, Water and Housing.
Scoring/Ranking will be based on an open source methodology assessing 8 categories:
2017
July-Sep Open call to receive candidates
Sep Selection of 30 semi-finalists
Sep-Oct Jury scores semifinalists
Oct-Nov Transformative Cities Index built and published
Nov-Dec Top three experiences of each category are written up by commissioned journalists
2018
Jan-Feb General Public vote for one story from each category to select the most inspiring experience
March Publication of the selected experiences based on popular vote
BEYOND 2018
Dissemination most inspiring experiences and new cycle of the Project,
Extension to other issues (migration & solidarity, territorial food governance, drugs harm reduction)
Interested? Send an e-mail to transformativecities@tni.org