Backcasting as a design device

The document examines the use of backcasting to co-design a 10-year transition roadmap to electric cooking with a rural Kenyan community, finding that participation in the workshop was linked to subsequent grassroots actions.

• The authors employed backcasting to co-create a 10-year transition roadmap for electric cooking with 30 members of a rural community in Kenya, which defined a local vision for the development process and the community's role within it.
• Follow-up interviews indicated that participating in the backcasting workshop was connected to subsequent community-led grassroots actions.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2022). Backcasting as a design device. https://www.sei.org/publications/backcasting-as-a-design-device/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Backcasting as a design device. 2022. https://www.sei.org/publications/backcasting-as-a-design-device/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2022backcasting, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Backcasting as a design device}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2022}, month = aug, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/backcasting-as-a-design-device/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }