This chapter is part of the book Imagining, Designing and Teaching Regenerative Futures: Art-Science Approaches and Inspirations From Around the World co- edited by Julia Bentz and Jelena Ristić Trajković . This chapter describes the method “BEEHIVE”, a method designed at Performatory (Breda University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands) to foster transformative change in real-life contexts. It builds on Transformative Social Innovation and aims to explore possible futures “beyond reform” by addressing the root causes of the challenges at hand and exploring alternative transformative future possibilities together.
The framework builds on a process-based approach to change, taking the time and inviting participants to understand the current situation, experiment and experience vulnerabilities, uncertainties, and complexity, and be open to potential losses of existing interests and related pain (Andreotti 2021). Transformative change might occur through ongoing experiments in new relations and be supported by reflexive monitoring (Aviles JR 2023). The Beehive framework has four phases and you can get to know it by reading the chapter: