ABSTRACT
Pattern: a science of change.
Context: in a complex world of wicked problems that require changes in the society that produced them, the current era of the Anthropocene is realigning the relationships between the non-living, living and human mind dimensions of the planet, and so poses a challenge to traditional science.
Issue: the conduct of science has been increasingly compartmentalised over three centuries and now needs to draw on its considerable capacity for collective thought.
Resolution: practitioners of transformation science draw on introspective, physical, social, ethical, aesthetic, sympathetic and reflective sources of evidence, bringing in a new era of collective scientific thought.
Examples: transformation science is applied to a snapshot of the expanding city of Kunming, China, and the potential pandemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
