Social learning inside and outside transition projects: Playing free jazz for a heavy metal audience

Figures & data

Fig. 1 The Field of Change after Senge et al. [1].

Table 1 The New Mixed Farm according to the Field of Change 2004-2006.

Guiding Ideas	Theory, Methods, Tools	Innovation in Infrastructure
Sustainability, through profit, low environmental impact, and meeting societal concerns about intensive agriculture.	Theory, methods and tools hail from the field of Industrial Ecology, and include economic aspects of loop-closure, the “closed stable” concept and the “closed greenhouse” concept.	Spatial clustering, a legal infrastructure to deal with permits, and an agrarian knowledge infrastructure for technical issues.
Attitudes and Beliefs	Awareness and Sensibilities	Skills and Capabilities
Intensive agriculture is unsustainable for many reasons.	Intensive animal production has a very negative image.	The entrepreneurs have a good regional network that includes supportive local government officials.
The New Mixed Farm can be hindered by the government and by local citizens and farmers.
Sustainable agriculture requires up-scaling of agricultural business.

Table 2 The New Mixed Farm according to the Field of Change phase 2006-2009.

Guiding Ideas	Theory, Methods, Tools	Innovation in Infrastructure
Continued: belief in the sustainability advantages of the initiative and the economic profitability.	Continued: Industrial Ecology orientation supported by a knowledge surrounding.	Spatial clustering, a legal infrastructure to deal with permits, and an agrarian knowledge infrastructure for technical issues.
Attitudes and Beliefs	Awareness and Sensibilities	Skills and Capabilities
Opposing value systems conflicting:	“They don’t appreciate our initiative.”	Bridging capabilities between value systems are not organised within the project (blind spot within the project).
- Belief in technology and rationality of economics of scale versus
- Animal welfare and public health concerns	Non-recognition of other value systems, trying to convince rather than to listen.
From trying to convince to polarization.^1

1: Main differences with Phase 1 in italics.

Table 3 The New Mixed Farm according to the Field of Change phase 2009-2011.

Guiding Ideas	Theory, Methods, Tools	Innovation in Infrastructure
Continued: belief in the sustainability advantages of the initiative and the economic profitability.	Continued: Industrial Ecology orientation supported by a knowledge surrounding.	Spatial clustering, a legal infrastructure to deal with permits, and an agrarian knowledge infrastructure for technical issues.
Attitudes and Beliefs	Awareness and Sensibilities	Skills and Capabilities
Conflicting value systems	Continued non-recognition of other value systems.	No further adjustments to the internal learning capacity.
Choice to follow strict legal procedures, survival level.^1

1: Main differences with Phase 2 in italics.