The transdisciplinary area ‘Transitions towards a low carbon society’ aims to approach the transition towards a low carbon society by promoting collaboration between technical-scientific actors and other social actors, developing new knowledge in technological, political, economic, educational and training fields, and supporting civic initiatives. 
In order to understand and manage the transition, the area aims to involve academic and non-academic actors and to use different types of knowledge, such as:

• knowledge of systems (how the system works today),
• knowledge of objectives (what the system should become),
• transformative knowledge (how to move from where we are now to where we want to be).

The area focuses on three interconnected thematic areas: buildings and housing, work and employment, and transport and mobility.
The skills and methods developed by the area can be adapted to other complex social transitions.

 
Area co-managers: Vasco Medici, Lorenzo Di Lucia
 
Interdepartmental Working Group: Albedo Bettini, Edoardo Slerca, Estefania Garcia Gonzalez, Francesca Cellina, Giovanni Branca, Maurizio Barbato, Nicolas Pons-Vignon, Pamela Principi.
 
Departments and affiliated schools involved: DEASS, DTI, DACD, SEDIFO
 
SUPSI units involved: CMI, CLWS, ISAAC, IM, MEMTI, SEDIFO
 
Confirmed external partners: TD Lab, University of Zurich, Imperial College London, UFRJ, Laboratory of Environmental and Urban Economics EPFL, Millennium Institute, Faculty of Sociology Bielefeld University, Engineering Faculty Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Economics USI.