Understanding Socio-Technological Systems Change through an Indigenous Community-Based Participatory Framework

Moving toward a sustainable global society requires substantial change in both social and technological systems. This sustainability is dependent not only on addressing the environmental impacts of current systems, but also social, economic political harms that continue to be perpetuated through systematic forms oppression exclusion Black, Indigenous, people color (BIPOC) communities. To adequately identify address these harms, we argue scientists, practitioners, communities need transdisciplinary framework integrates multiple types knowledge, particular, Indigenous experiential knowledge. knowledge systems embrace relationality reciprocity rather than extraction oppression, grounds transition priorities lived experiences expert assessments. Here, demonstrate how an experiential, community-based participatory for understanding advancing socio-technological system transitions can facilitate co-design co-development community-owned energy