Design of the BIONEXT co-creative arena

At the heart of BIONEXT is a four-step participatory process to co-create visions and scenarios, long-term pathways and short-term actions and mobilization to enhance transformative change in the biodiversity nexus. These workshops allow the BIONEXT project to be a participatory effort with a diverse set of stakeholders. The workshop outcomes will be embedded into the project process and form part of the research findings. In doing so, the project aims to produce broadly supported and actionable insights for governing the biodiversity nexus.

In this report we will turn our focus to the design of the four workshops that together explore transformative change in biodiversity. While this report places emphasis on workshop number two – part of Work Package 2 – it expands on the broader principles that have been key to the design of all four and describes how the four workshops connect to each other methodologically. Placing emphasis on workshop 2, in which the theme of transition pathways is central, this report expands in more detail on its program and the conceptual underpinning of the workshop.