Transformation – vom Buzzword zum Handlungsauftrag
Meso unterstützt Organisationen, öffentliche Verwaltungen und Grossprojekte dabei, komplexe Herausforderungen in echte Veränderungsprozesse zu übersetzen. Mit interdisziplinärer Expertise entwickeln wir Handlungsfähigkeit über Sektorgrenzen hinweg und ermöglichen tiefgreifenden Wandel durch gezielte Strategien und partizipative Prozessgestaltung.
Three key questions
Verstehen
Transformation beginnt mit Verstehen. Wir bringen Challenge Owner zusammen, um siloübergreifend sichtbar zu machen, wie Verantwortung verteilt ist, wo Macht wirkt und wo Handlungsräume blockiert sind. Ohne Reformdruck, aber mit Klarheit entsteht ein gemeinsames Verständnis dafür, was auf dem Spiel steht – und wo Veränderung möglich ist.
Begleiten
Transformation braucht Struktur, sonst bleibt sie Absicht. Wir begleiten Challenge Owner dabei, gemeinsame Ziele in klare Prioritäten, Rollen und Entscheidungswege zu übersetzen – siloübergreifend und politisch anschlussfähig. So wird Verantwortung geteilt und Transformation institutionell verankert.
Umsetzen
Transformation zeigt sich im Handeln. In geschützten, siloübergreifenden Räumen erproben Challenge Owner neue institutionelle, organisatorische oder ökonomische Modelle. Die Prototypen schaffen konkrete Erfahrungen, machen Wirkung sichtbar und ermöglichen Entscheidungen darüber, was trägt – und was skaliert werden kann.
Strategic experiments as an engine for joint learning
Strategic experiments are a core tool of Meso. They make it possible to test how a more socially and ecologically sustainable life could function in interventions limited in time and space. In contrast to conventional innovation, strategic experiments are characterized by working with portfolios of complementary interventions, involving various actors in design and implementation, and testing innovations as realistically as possible. They also include formats for joint learning in order to diversify findings as much as possible and to enable successful solutions to be scaled.Challenge Owner – Akteur:innen, die Herausforderungen nicht delegieren, sondern gemeinsam angehen und mit anderen tragfähige Lösungen entwickeln wollen.
Meso wants to connect
We bring established actors from administration, science, business and civil society together with innovative pioneers, with the aim of becoming able to act and learn together.
Meso wants to create something new
New spaces for experimentation and thought should allow us to learn together how we can make urban spaces more sustainable.
An open network
Meso is a network of innovative organizations that want to work together to shape a more sustainable future.
The roles of Meso
Orchestrator
Meso as an orchestrator who brings together existing anchor institutions from science, politics, business and civil society with less established pioneers and enables them to act and learn together.
Trailblazer
Meso as a pioneer for systemic work, who creates time and financial resources for frequently forgotten systemic work and thus helps various actors break out of the often restrictive project logic. Meso wants to help set up and finance strategic experiments.
Community of Practice
Meso as a community of practice and learning that stimulates creativity and imagination, Meso wants to be a learning community that deals critically, openly and constructively with the question of how we want to live differently and how we — together — can live differently.
Competence Center
Meso as a competence center for practical transformation work, which supports pioneers, individuals and institutions with specific tools and offers.
Thought leader
Meso wants to act as an ambassador for strategic experiments, systemic change and collective learning and to show that social transformation is possible and worthwhile.
Contact
Flurin Hess
flurin@meso.partners
Funding partner
