The Transition movement is a well-studied social innovation initiative grounded in the economic imaginary of degrowth. Starting in 2016, the movement developed a shared governance model based on sociocracy and holacracy principles aiming to distribute power, resources, and responsibilities transparently across a growing international network. To do so, the knowledge about a set of governance techniques was shared to strengthen an organising culture that aims to reflect a more democratic society. This recent governance experience has not been deeply analysed by scholarly work. To better understand this experience with shared governance, this paper aims to analyse how a prefigurative organising (Schiller-Merkens 2022) was developed by the network looking at their practices and the normative/epistemological references that support these practices (della Porta and Pavan 2017). Data is provided by documents about governance, in-depth semi-structured interviews with key actors of the Transition Network, National/Regional Hubs and local initiatives from 4 European countries, and participant observation in different levels of the network, including the international decision-making instances. This is ongoing research, therefore the results presented are preliminary. Interviews will be conducted with participants from more 14 European countries and participant observation will happen in regional events in more 3 European countries.

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• Political Science - Social Sciences