The project brings together researchers from diverse disciplines, practitioners, and institutional representatives in a commission, and co-create an interdisciplinary meta-analysis of the potential for a care-centered society to facilitate the transition to an equitable, low-consumption society. It explores questions such as:
- How can we make a radical transition to low-consumption lifestyles, while maintaining or increasing wellbeing?
- Can we simultaneously promote social justice and regenerative ways of living by putting care at the heart of our societies?
- How can we communicate effectively about care-centered transitions and bring society on board?
An alliance of individuals and organizations dedicated to care-centered, equitable, low-consumption societies will enable us to start shifting the “Overton window,” i.e. the set of ideas that are generally considered feasible and relevant by policy practitioners.
Bringing together insights from Global North and Global South, we seek to ensure that the ways in which we communicate about care-centered societies is effective and meaningful to a global public. The project will also undertake strategic communications research, produce communications tools, and build a global alliance for action, based on the findings of the meta-analysis.