1. Transitional Awareness

2. Transitional awareness Transitions are re-configurations of socio- technical systems by which societal functions are provided. The research question How do embedded actors develop an awareness of these socio-technical systems as discrete objects of strategic change?

3. Transitional awareness According to the dominating evolutionary perspective of transition theory incumbent actors - develop vested interests in the established socio-technical system - are cognitively embedded in the established socio-technical configuration.

4. Transitional awareness The solution: Transitional awareness may be cultivated with the help of social scientists: Transition management: 1: Form a 'transition arena' 2: Agree on a 'transition challenge' 3: Develop transition pathways through backcasting 4: Initiate short term experimentations and learning cycles

5. System reflexivity – uncertianty or politics? Towards an endogenous under understanding of transitional awareness… reflexivity as uncertainty - develop accurate and detailed representations. Disclose steering mechanism reflexivity as politics - Regime representations naturalise human needs and blackbox ambivalence - ambivalence should be managed rather than eliminated - Regime representations perform interventions in social reality

6. Transitional awareness An endogenous under understanding of transitional awareness? 'Dialectic' conception of strategic institutional change 1 - social construction 2 - totalization 4 - contradiction 5 - praxis Actor’s consiously navigate contradictions and tensions

7. Totalization in Danish construction and housing: The project focus Since WW2 Danish construction and housing has been conceptualised and optimised as a project domain - national building codes that regulate the construction design, - organised markets for building components, materials and construction services organised towards construction phase activities - contracting models for how to organise construction phase activities - organised interest organisations defined by their various professional roles in relation to construction phase activities.

8. Totalization, contradictions and praxis in the energy efficiency agenda The path dependent energy saving agenda: Design requirements stipulated in the building codes

9. Contradictions and praxis in the energy saving agenda Energy service companies: (delivers energy savings in the phase of operation) contradiction: The construction phase cost / use phase cost / energy efficient building operation Smart energy consumption Contradiction: Built environment / Smart energy system / smart building operation

10. Towards a transitional awareness? Embedded navigation: When embedded actors used new logics to organize and displace experienced contradictions and tensions