… who cared about the forest and wanted to transform it

A 15-30 minute activity for 1+ people individually or together

Written and illustrated by Aisha So, Hero was part of a process of reflection emerging from the course Transformative Research for Sustainability Challenges, co-organised by Wageningen University, Utrecht University, University of Twente, and Stockholm Resilience Centre. Hero won a special prize in the 2024 EASST-4S short story competition organised by researchers from the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). The story has also been published in the EASST Review.

Is this the activity for your group?

• Low trust required
• No facilitator needed
• 15 minutes duration to read the book; up to 30 minutes if discussion included
• 1 person individually, or more people in a small group
• Low setup
• Low difficulty 
• Low imaginative load

Why read this?

• Embracing ambiguity
• Unmaking systems

Components

Hero can be downloaded below, or read online.