Social innovation and social economy: A new framework in the Spanish housing context

The main purpose of this paper is to offer a new theoretical framework to the Spanish housing studies. This article combines different traditions and different frameworks (social innovation, social economy), in order to position the crisis of evictions in Spain and the emergence of housing co-operatives in a new theoretical context. In the first...

Towards agile projectmanagement and sopcial innovation in the construction industry

Is project management developing towards a more human- or culture-oriented discipline? Two recent studies of the Dutch construction industry dealt with this issue, and the results of these studies have led to the conclusion that project management has developed in the opposite direction over the past few years, towards a 'harder', more...

Social innovation: An opportunity for sustainable design projects: Case of desis09 application at santo antônio de Lisboa community, Florianópolis, Brazil

Santo Antônio de Lisboa is a community of Azorean remaining in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil which, like many others in the world permeates culture through generations. The organization of cassava flour production identified in this community involves social, environmental and economic aspects of a sustainable local development, which...

Fruitful friction as a strategy to scale social innovations: A conceptual framework to enable the emergence of common ground in multi-stakeholder social innovation projects

Social innovations are promising to tackle today's complex global challenges, especially when they scale, leading to a higher impact, which can generate asocietal transformation. The current work elaborates on scaling deep, a specific scaling strategy aiming to shift cultural values, mindsets and beliefs. However, applying this strategy in...

Energy citizenship for inclusive decarbonization: A transdisciplinary framework for creating transformation knowledge

Achieving the European Union’s vision of climate neutrality by 2050 dictates the need to transform the role that citizens can play in decarbonizing the energy system. Yet, “which citizens to involve in this process,” “when to involve them,” and “how to do so fairly and effectively,” are questions that still remain unclear to both experts and...

A Call for Scaling Literacy: On strategic dimensions and directions of systemic scaling

Scaling is a motif describing the proportionate growth of innovation. Over the past decade, scholars have adapted the original idea of scaling from business to differentiate different ways to scale that are more appropriate in the context of social innovation. Scaling is sometimes thought of as a panacea: it is the end result, purpose, or answer...

Social Innovation and the Energy Transition

The transition to low carbon energy systems cannot solely rely on technological innovation. It also requires social innovation. In the context of energy transition social innovation can be defined as innovation that is social in its means and which contributes to low carbon energy transition, civic empowerment and social goals pertaining to the...

Developing a Service Platform for Health and Wellbeing in a Living Lab Setting: An Action Design Research Approach

Developing Multi-Layer Information Infrastructures: Advancing Social Innovation through Public–Private Governance

Information infrastructures of businesses and government are increasingly interwoven and highly dependent on each other. Though often referred to as sociotechnical innovations, the development of these information infrastructures often has a technological focus. The related and even concurrent development of new social practices is understudied....

The Implications of Schumpeter’s Theories of Innovation for the Role, Organisation and Impact of Community-Based Social Enterprise in Three European Countries

Social enterprises, with strong ties to local areas and communities, have been a growing phenomenon in many European countries at least since the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the resulting retrenchment of state involvement in welfare provision. The paper draws on the empirical findings from nine case studies of community-based social...

El rol de la sociedad civil en la gestión de vivienda y barrios vulnerables en Chile

In Chile, an increasing number of Civil Society Organizations (CSO) have positioned themselves as vehicles of social and political transformation through the implementation of projects in the built environment. These organizations are driven by social goals and represent an alternative to governmental and market gaps. This paper aims to...

Gamification of backcasting for sustainability: The development of the gameful backcasting framework (GAMEBACK)

Considering how wicked problems, such as overconsumption, climate change, or the management of the COVID-19 pandemic rely on multiple stakeholder groups’ deliberation, this study investigates gamification's potential in participatory backcasting processes to support the emergence and growth of social innovations towards sustainability....

Beyond instrumentalism: Broadening the understanding of social innovation in socio-technical energy systems

Social innovation is an important dimension of current transformations in energy systems. It can refer to alternative business models, novel policy instruments, financing schemes, participatory governance approaches to energy questions, or new discourses. Its significance for energy systems is often considered in narrow instrumentalist terms,...

Systemic Design Principles in Social Innovation: A Study of Expert Practices and Design Rationales

In recent decades, design has expanded from a practice aimed at designing things to one that helps to address complex societal challenges. In this context, a field of practice called systemic design has emerged, which combines elements of systems thinking with elements of design. We use a case study approach to investigate how expert...

Co-creative partnerships as catalysts for social change

Mundane cities are challenged to design for unpredictable and rapidly changing futures. In the current work, we refer to thesechallenges as a collaborative design challenge and explore how co-creative partnerships can enable a participatory turn by establishinga new social infrastructure. The corresponding citizen-centred design approach offers...