Nuts & Bolts:
How to create
a Transition
University
This second part of the guide provides a more hands-on approach and explanation to how Transition in universities has been done.
Universities vary widely as do their communities, which means that each Transition University group will be different. This is not a prescriptive route that needs to be followed to become a Transition University, but more a set of suggestions to help you form your own path. Perhaps you are a group of only students, perhaps only of university management, perhaps a mix?
We have put different ingredients you may wish to consider in your Transition University in a circle. They will be presented in a linear fashion in this guide, but do not feel that you need to follow in the same order. The idea is that you can move between the different ingredients, perhaps revisiting certain points several times as they become relevant. Your path between the different ingredients thus creates your very own Transition University design web, specific to your local context. This is based on a Permaculture design method by Looby Macnamara (you can see an explanation of it here. Hopefully, you will find it useful both at an overarching level as you design your Transition University group, and at a specific level when you design individual projects.
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