Home | About | Using the Toolkit | All Tools | Get Involved

What are they?

Indicators are what help us make sense of the world around us. They give us information about what is happening, and whether things have changed, or stayed the same.

Why are they important?

If we use the wrong indicators, we can easily miss important information about the state of the system, and our impact on it. What we value is informed by what we measure, so to be able to hold uncertainty and work in systems change, we need new ways of understanding impact.

<aside> 🗨️

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Thich Nhat Hanh

</aside>

Click on the arrows below to expand the questions which feel relevant and interesting to the change that you are working towards

Where to start

• How have you noticed other tipping points?
• If the change you were working towards was happening, how would you notice?
• How can I notice if a system is getting closer to tipping, before it happens?
• What would it mean if your goal was an indicator of change?

Questions to go deeper

• How could you create new metrics to track progress towards the system state you want to help create?
• How can you tell different stories about change that focus on indicators you might not otherwise notice?
• What changes if we believe that a tipping point has already happened?
• How might we unlock collective civic capacity across the embedded economy as a social system to cultivate place-based social tipping points for liveable neighbourhoods?

Where to go next

What factors are making change less likely? What could make it more possible?