Many of today’s solutions for the burning issues of our time do not work, or do not show results on a long-term basis. In our view, in most cases, they are not sufficiently underpinned by culturally and societally authentic forms of learning and knowledge creation; often, they are not grounded in local context, not owned by local people, nor is local and global knowledge purposefully interconnected. Usually, they ignore cultural particularities. 

In the transformative work we catalyse around the world, we always emphasise locally lead and owned knowledge creation processes. Based on our work on Integral Research and Innovation, these processes employ research paths that are befitted to the personalities of the researcher-innovators and to the cultural context in which they operate. In addition, we design such social innovation processes in a way, that the local knowledge grounds are suitably activated, so that new knowledge can build on and link back to the indigenous knowledge roots of a particular place and society, be it in Zimbabwe or in England, be it in Sri Lanka or in Brazil.