This is combined with rising economic inequalities and occurrences of civil wars, local conflict and forced displacements. These global patterns are intimately interconnected: the growing climate emergency, the global pandemic, the protests against systemic and structural injustices and the rise in global inequalities. A fundamental rethinking of development has never been more urgent, timely and salient.

Worldwide protests calling for transformative and structural change, against racism and injustice, alongside calls to decolonise minds and acts have illuminated a path towards reflecting and rethinking how history has been framed through colonialist narratives and how these persist in the present. These tensions are a sign that human aspirations and ways of living, as well as perceptions of what constitutes development, are responding to mitigate, and hopefully overcome, the adverse consequences of these global patterns and crises. This will require greater understanding of the multiple and varied spatial and temporal rhythms of development be they: planetary, climatic and seasonal, economic and capitalist, political and institutional. The challenge is to consider a fundamental transformation of policies, practices, mindsets and behaviours, one based not solely on technological and scientific innovations but founded on cultural, intellectual and artistic creativity and inspiration. We need to consider a variety of data, evidence and research to identify key challenges and to develop new concepts, methods and policies.

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