Large-Scale Organising for Transformative Regeneration across Cities & Bioregions
Launch during the 80th European Forum Alpbach, August 21st till 23rd 2025
Europe is becoming more fragile as extreme weather events, democratic decline, exponential technologies, and ongoing war push our limits. This call is dedicated to people and organisations establishing practices, structures, and systems that are able to provide safety when security and climate disruptions converge. As no single body can orchestrate this on its own, new forms of large-scale organising are required.
10 × 100 connects the 100 day political timeframes of societal transformation to the pace of natural systems by reflecting outward, inward and forward every 100 days. Humanity synchronises around rhythm – from cardiac pulses, breathing and dancing to annual seasons or fiscal quarters.
Over the past three years, our 10 × 100 Lab at European Forum Alpbach has been guided by the recognition that structural change is underway across many organisations, municipalities, and networks. Together with 150+ contributors, we
[ ] identified strategic gaps in meeting the polycrisis at speed and scale and validated the need for coordinated transformation portfolios (2022)
[ ] highlighted the mandate of mayors and their administrations as well as the pivotal role of cities and bioregions as drivers for structural shifts (2023)
[ ] co-developed a "Micro-Macro Deal" approach by evolving tiny living labs into growing systems of adaptation for multi-level response (2024)
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In 2025-2027, we dedicate the next cycle to the co-development of a practice across different missions, sectors and methodologies, able to shift:
→ from control to learning-centred coordination,
→ from silos to distributed, multilevel governance,
→ from extraction to city-bioregional regeneration.
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Leadership in an age of cascading emergencies is an evolving function, rooted in moral orientation, continuous learning, and accountable adaptation. The regular application of 10 × 100 supports this living practice by matching science with appropriate action – able to engage with increasingly complex and volatile biophysical realities.
Life itself offers the blueprint.
Tenderness, shared unknowing, and interconnection are basic principles by which ecosystems endure. Adopting the same logic in our work – closing nutrient and material loops, sharing resources, and designing flows that keep value circulating – contributes to an institutional landscape that is embedded in the web of life instead of standing apart from it.