A presentation on innovation that sought to examine, in particular, the purpose and triggers of social innovation, as well as the roles of social context, networks, and trust in innovation.
Social innovation is addressing social problems through new ideas, strategies, and solutions. It aims to meet social needs more effectively than current alternatives by creating new social relationships and collaborations. Social innovations have a measurable positive impact on the social, political, and economic factors that created problems in the first place.
This document summarizes research on scaling and diffusing social innovations. It finds that scaling is an inadequate concept for conceptualizing the growth of social innovations, as it suggests standardization and control which may not fit innovations in public services or those involving co-production. Diffusion is complex and not easily orchestrated. A typology of innovations as new services, practices, processes, rules or organizations is proposed to better understand appropriate growth approaches. Case studies show networks, receptive contexts, and intermediaries critical to spreading innovations, though intermediaries face control vs speed trade-offs. Further research areas include grassroots innovations, innovation platforms, and enabling conditions over scaling control.
Présentation de Blanca MIEDES UGARTE, Celia SANCHEZ LOPEZ (Univ. de Huelva), "Beyond social economy : distinctive characteristics of social-ecological production and exchange initiatives", dans l'Atelier 2 "L’impact social, approches polydisciplinaires" de la XVe conférence INTI XVe Conférence Annuelle Internationale INTI « Économie Sociale et Solidaire dans les territoires », 22-25 novembre 2016, Charleroi et Liège, Belgique.
This document summarizes a European Union FP7 project called newLIFE that aims to promote well-being and a socio-ecological transition in Europe. The project has multiple work packages, including one on well-being led by Cyril Masselot that will analyze meanings of well-being and cultural contexts of sustainability. It will also examine education systems and produce knowledge to inform governance. The well-being work package has several sub-tasks focusing on language, culture, temporality, and learning in relation to sustainable development. The overall goal is to develop a new development model guided by individual and collective well-being.
1) The document discusses lessons learned and working hypotheses for transitioning towards a more sustainable society based on local resources and communities.
2) It proposes that small, localized changes driven by new visions of the future could lead to a large systemic transition towards sustainability.
3) Designers may play a role by developing scenarios and solutions that promote localized systems changes and reduce consumption while increasing social well-being.
The role of community art programs in building social capital thesis prospec...SAAD ALZAROONI, CM
This document outlines a research plan exploring how community art programs can build social capital. It presents a conceptual framework showing the potential impacts of arts on communities, individuals, and the economy. The research aims to understand how public art can contribute to social capital by facilitating civic engagement and community cohesion. Both theoretical and empirical literature will be reviewed on topics like why people participate in arts and how art shapes sense of place. Qualitative methods like interviews and observation will be used to collect data on how art organizations can engage communities and address social issues through public art.
2013 Nonprofit Seminar - Conducted by Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, along with the Center for Nonprofits and Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga
Social innovation is addressing social problems through new ideas, strategies, and solutions. It aims to meet social needs more effectively than current alternatives by creating new social relationships and collaborations. Social innovations have a measurable positive impact on the social, political, and economic factors that created problems in the first place.
This document summarizes research on scaling and diffusing social innovations. It finds that scaling is an inadequate concept for conceptualizing the growth of social innovations, as it suggests standardization and control which may not fit innovations in public services or those involving co-production. Diffusion is complex and not easily orchestrated. A typology of innovations as new services, practices, processes, rules or organizations is proposed to better understand appropriate growth approaches. Case studies show networks, receptive contexts, and intermediaries critical to spreading innovations, though intermediaries face control vs speed trade-offs. Further research areas include grassroots innovations, innovation platforms, and enabling conditions over scaling control.
Présentation de Blanca MIEDES UGARTE, Celia SANCHEZ LOPEZ (Univ. de Huelva), "Beyond social economy : distinctive characteristics of social-ecological production and exchange initiatives", dans l'Atelier 2 "L’impact social, approches polydisciplinaires" de la XVe conférence INTI XVe Conférence Annuelle Internationale INTI « Économie Sociale et Solidaire dans les territoires », 22-25 novembre 2016, Charleroi et Liège, Belgique.
This document summarizes a European Union FP7 project called newLIFE that aims to promote well-being and a socio-ecological transition in Europe. The project has multiple work packages, including one on well-being led by Cyril Masselot that will analyze meanings of well-being and cultural contexts of sustainability. It will also examine education systems and produce knowledge to inform governance. The well-being work package has several sub-tasks focusing on language, culture, temporality, and learning in relation to sustainable development. The overall goal is to develop a new development model guided by individual and collective well-being.
1) The document discusses lessons learned and working hypotheses for transitioning towards a more sustainable society based on local resources and communities.
2) It proposes that small, localized changes driven by new visions of the future could lead to a large systemic transition towards sustainability.
3) Designers may play a role by developing scenarios and solutions that promote localized systems changes and reduce consumption while increasing social well-being.
The role of community art programs in building social capital thesis prospec...SAAD ALZAROONI, CM
This document outlines a research plan exploring how community art programs can build social capital. It presents a conceptual framework showing the potential impacts of arts on communities, individuals, and the economy. The research aims to understand how public art can contribute to social capital by facilitating civic engagement and community cohesion. Both theoretical and empirical literature will be reviewed on topics like why people participate in arts and how art shapes sense of place. Qualitative methods like interviews and observation will be used to collect data on how art organizations can engage communities and address social issues through public art.
2013 Nonprofit Seminar - Conducted by Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, along with the Center for Nonprofits and Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga
The document summarizes the development of a Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) partnership in the Cotswold Catchment area. The partnership grew from an earlier pilot project and involves farmers, private sector groups, local communities, and public agencies. It takes a partnership approach to identify ecosystem services provided in the catchment, including water quality, flood control, energy production, and more. The PES framework pays farmers for land management practices that secure these services for beneficiaries. It uses a social learning process where data is shared and management options are jointly discussed and developed. The long-term goal is to implement the PES framework to support sustainable farming practices that maintain ecosystem services in the catchment area.
The use of sensory ethnography to gain new understandings of visitor emotional experiences and practices at National Trust sites and their implications for future research & management.
Aims:
investigate the meaning places have for people and how people engage with places
open up new approaches to examining peoples’ engagement with landscapes and places through sensory ethnography
communicate the above in a meaningful way that enables the NT to evaluate the possibility of implementing the findings and the methods.
1) The document analyzes niche-regime interactions in learning and innovation networks for sustainable agriculture across Europe.
2) It identifies five modes of interaction between niches and the mainstream agricultural regime: compatible, complementary, emergent, divergent, and oppositional.
3) The analysis finds transition to sustainable agriculture involves dynamic, diverse, and irregular interaction in the "fuzzy" space between niches and the regime, leading to a series of adaptive changes rather than a single regime change.
Bullying involves repeated physical, verbal, or psychological attacks against someone who is perceived as weaker. Bullying can have long-lasting negative effects on both the victim and bully. Signs that a child is being bullied include unexplained injuries, lost belongings, changes in eating or sleeping habits, and declining school performance or lack of interest in school. To prevent bullying, parents should communicate with their children, teach respect for others, and schools should create anti-bullying rules and a safe environment for all students.
Aims of Presentation:
Part1: To present some of Prof Beckert’s ideas about the social order and coordinating ‘problems’ inherent in market exchange.
Ask: Can Beckert’s ideas be adapted so that they are useful for observing environmental outcomes from rural markets? In this case the environmental mission is conceptualised as orchard biosphere conservation.
Part 2: Explore that question with recourse to research on some German social enterprises, ie. I will attempt the leap.
Overall aim:
develop a methodology to improve understanding of the systemic and other factors influencing impacts arising from the implementation of regulatory change
Objectives:
Understand the form and magnitude of errors in current impact assessments
Identify potential improvements in the general methodology in order to reduce errors
Develop a framework methodology for the conduct of ex-post assessment of regulations
An internship report by visiting student Yumiko Yamamoto from the University of Kyoto. The report investigates management of Rights of Way and the Cotswold Way in the United Kingdom. With assistance from Kate Ashbrook from the Open Spaces Society.
Dan Keech's presentation at a meeting of the Bath and North East Somerset Local Food Partnership. This is the multi-stakeholder network which oversees the implementation of the council's Local Food Strategy. The strategy combines work on public health, food and agriculture sector development and the environmental footprint of the food chain. More information about Dan can be found at: http://www.ccri.ac.uk/keech/
A presentation given by Dan Keech at East Devon AONB, covering alternative approches to orchard conservation management - with examples from England and Germany.
Forms & conventions for documentary jodiejodiefoster96
This documentary explores witchcraft accusations against children in Congo. It shows the physical abuse suffered by accused children and interviews individuals to demonstrate their experiences. The documentary uses conventions like archival photographs to explain events, arranged interviews to show perspectives, public interviews to portray honest views, a presenter to inform audiences, handheld camera movement for realism, credits to introduce speakers, and subtitles to translate foreign languages.
This document discusses operating and technology levy requests for 2012 from a school district. It summarizes the district's progress in increasing student achievement and enrollment in rigorous courses since 2008. It notes rising student needs but better student outcomes. If the operating levy passes, it would provide $9 million annually for 5 years to continue progress. If it fails, there would be $14 million in cuts over 2 years, reducing staff, courses, and support. The technology levy would provide equipment, training, and infrastructure to prepare students for college and careers. Both would have minimal tax impacts.
This document summarizes a research project on farmers' risk perceptions of climate change. The project aims to assess how UK farmers form perceptions of climate change risks and how those perceptions relate to risk mitigation actions. The researcher conducted a literature review finding little prior research on UK farmers. A conceptual framework was developed using a "cultural-behavioral" theory to understand decision-making. Methods included analyzing climate data and newspaper reports. Next steps are to analyze newspapers using qualitative data software and conduct preliminary interviews with farmers.
The sun is potentially setting on the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. If the law expires as expected January 1, 2013, some estate planning and gifting opportunities will no longer exist. The options still available prior to the New Year will be the focus of a complimentary seminar presented by Chambliss attorneys Mark Addison, Ryan Barry, Dana Perry, and Greg Willett.
Federal and Tennessee Gifting Opportunities
An overview of the current lifetime gifting options provided by the 2010 Tax Act and the changes if Congress does not extend the 2010 Tax Act by the end of 2012.
Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts ("SLATs")
An overview of the use of Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts and other common techniques for capturing the current $5.12 million federal unified credit prior to its potential expiration on January 1, 2013.
The New Landscape of Gift and Inheritance Taxes in Tennessee
A discussion on the new laws affecting the Tennessee gift and inheritance taxes along with a discussion of potential pitfalls Tennessee residents may face when dealing with these issues.
Differences in Federal and Tennessee Gift Tax Structure
Practical examples illustrating how the two tax structures differ and what it means for you.
This document is a summary of a webinar on 2013 individual tax laws and their implications for philanthropy. It discusses changes to income tax rates including an increase in the top individual rate to 39.6% and the capital gains rate to 20%. A 3.8% healthcare tax also applies to investment income over $200,000. The estate and gift tax exemption increased to $5.25 million and is portable between spouses. Direct charitable contributions from IRAs are allowed for those over 701/2. Planning should focus more on income than estate taxes due to high exemptions and fewer subject to the estate tax.
This document outlines a 3-episode series exploring arguments for and against the existence of God from different perspectives. Episode 1 examines William Paley's clock analogy argument and interviews various people's views on God. Episode 2 looks at explanations of God from religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam as well as Descartes' argument. Episode 3 features interviews with people who have had religious experiences and concludes with statistics on belief in God and a quote about the existence of God. The document also includes a 5-minute planning outline that structures the content over the 3 episodes.
The document discusses developments in environmental policy, the attractions of integrated delivery approaches, and lessons learned from a pilot catchment project in the Upper Thames region. Key points include: current policy emphasizes more integrated, landscape-scale approaches; integrating work could help share burdens, maximize outcomes, and increase involvement; the Water Framework Directive requires improved waterbody management and a catchment focus; and the pilot aimed to integrate existing work through collaboration but determining roles and long-term impact requires more time.
This presentation, given at the IASC European Conference, provides an overview of Commonland farming in the UK, and (reasonably) recent changes in legislation. The changes enabled the creation of Commons Councils, who had statutory powers, but its implementation has been slow.
James Kirwan discusses the issues of social innovation and localisation in relation to work carried out by the CCRI team looking at the Local Food Programme in England
Asset Based Community Develpement :Towards a Sustainable Approach.Ar. Salma Akter Surma
Asset-based community development (ABCD) focuses on community strengths rather than needs. ABCD identifies five key community asset categories: individuals, associations, institutions, physical assets, and connections between people. Mapping these assets helps communities recognize their inherent capacities and mobilize for change by building on existing skills and resources. Traditional needs-based approaches risk disempowering communities by focusing only on deficiencies. In contrast, ABCD starts from an asset perspective, believing communities can best create positive change by recognizing their inherent strengths.
The document summarizes the development of a Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) partnership in the Cotswold Catchment area. The partnership grew from an earlier pilot project and involves farmers, private sector groups, local communities, and public agencies. It takes a partnership approach to identify ecosystem services provided in the catchment, including water quality, flood control, energy production, and more. The PES framework pays farmers for land management practices that secure these services for beneficiaries. It uses a social learning process where data is shared and management options are jointly discussed and developed. The long-term goal is to implement the PES framework to support sustainable farming practices that maintain ecosystem services in the catchment area.
The use of sensory ethnography to gain new understandings of visitor emotional experiences and practices at National Trust sites and their implications for future research & management.
Aims:
investigate the meaning places have for people and how people engage with places
open up new approaches to examining peoples’ engagement with landscapes and places through sensory ethnography
communicate the above in a meaningful way that enables the NT to evaluate the possibility of implementing the findings and the methods.
1) The document analyzes niche-regime interactions in learning and innovation networks for sustainable agriculture across Europe.
2) It identifies five modes of interaction between niches and the mainstream agricultural regime: compatible, complementary, emergent, divergent, and oppositional.
3) The analysis finds transition to sustainable agriculture involves dynamic, diverse, and irregular interaction in the "fuzzy" space between niches and the regime, leading to a series of adaptive changes rather than a single regime change.
Bullying involves repeated physical, verbal, or psychological attacks against someone who is perceived as weaker. Bullying can have long-lasting negative effects on both the victim and bully. Signs that a child is being bullied include unexplained injuries, lost belongings, changes in eating or sleeping habits, and declining school performance or lack of interest in school. To prevent bullying, parents should communicate with their children, teach respect for others, and schools should create anti-bullying rules and a safe environment for all students.
Aims of Presentation:
Part1: To present some of Prof Beckert’s ideas about the social order and coordinating ‘problems’ inherent in market exchange.
Ask: Can Beckert’s ideas be adapted so that they are useful for observing environmental outcomes from rural markets? In this case the environmental mission is conceptualised as orchard biosphere conservation.
Part 2: Explore that question with recourse to research on some German social enterprises, ie. I will attempt the leap.
Overall aim:
develop a methodology to improve understanding of the systemic and other factors influencing impacts arising from the implementation of regulatory change
Objectives:
Understand the form and magnitude of errors in current impact assessments
Identify potential improvements in the general methodology in order to reduce errors
Develop a framework methodology for the conduct of ex-post assessment of regulations
An internship report by visiting student Yumiko Yamamoto from the University of Kyoto. The report investigates management of Rights of Way and the Cotswold Way in the United Kingdom. With assistance from Kate Ashbrook from the Open Spaces Society.
Dan Keech's presentation at a meeting of the Bath and North East Somerset Local Food Partnership. This is the multi-stakeholder network which oversees the implementation of the council's Local Food Strategy. The strategy combines work on public health, food and agriculture sector development and the environmental footprint of the food chain. More information about Dan can be found at: http://www.ccri.ac.uk/keech/
A presentation given by Dan Keech at East Devon AONB, covering alternative approches to orchard conservation management - with examples from England and Germany.
Forms & conventions for documentary jodiejodiefoster96
This documentary explores witchcraft accusations against children in Congo. It shows the physical abuse suffered by accused children and interviews individuals to demonstrate their experiences. The documentary uses conventions like archival photographs to explain events, arranged interviews to show perspectives, public interviews to portray honest views, a presenter to inform audiences, handheld camera movement for realism, credits to introduce speakers, and subtitles to translate foreign languages.
This document discusses operating and technology levy requests for 2012 from a school district. It summarizes the district's progress in increasing student achievement and enrollment in rigorous courses since 2008. It notes rising student needs but better student outcomes. If the operating levy passes, it would provide $9 million annually for 5 years to continue progress. If it fails, there would be $14 million in cuts over 2 years, reducing staff, courses, and support. The technology levy would provide equipment, training, and infrastructure to prepare students for college and careers. Both would have minimal tax impacts.
This document summarizes a research project on farmers' risk perceptions of climate change. The project aims to assess how UK farmers form perceptions of climate change risks and how those perceptions relate to risk mitigation actions. The researcher conducted a literature review finding little prior research on UK farmers. A conceptual framework was developed using a "cultural-behavioral" theory to understand decision-making. Methods included analyzing climate data and newspaper reports. Next steps are to analyze newspapers using qualitative data software and conduct preliminary interviews with farmers.
The sun is potentially setting on the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. If the law expires as expected January 1, 2013, some estate planning and gifting opportunities will no longer exist. The options still available prior to the New Year will be the focus of a complimentary seminar presented by Chambliss attorneys Mark Addison, Ryan Barry, Dana Perry, and Greg Willett.
Federal and Tennessee Gifting Opportunities
An overview of the current lifetime gifting options provided by the 2010 Tax Act and the changes if Congress does not extend the 2010 Tax Act by the end of 2012.
Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts ("SLATs")
An overview of the use of Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts and other common techniques for capturing the current $5.12 million federal unified credit prior to its potential expiration on January 1, 2013.
The New Landscape of Gift and Inheritance Taxes in Tennessee
A discussion on the new laws affecting the Tennessee gift and inheritance taxes along with a discussion of potential pitfalls Tennessee residents may face when dealing with these issues.
Differences in Federal and Tennessee Gift Tax Structure
Practical examples illustrating how the two tax structures differ and what it means for you.
This document is a summary of a webinar on 2013 individual tax laws and their implications for philanthropy. It discusses changes to income tax rates including an increase in the top individual rate to 39.6% and the capital gains rate to 20%. A 3.8% healthcare tax also applies to investment income over $200,000. The estate and gift tax exemption increased to $5.25 million and is portable between spouses. Direct charitable contributions from IRAs are allowed for those over 701/2. Planning should focus more on income than estate taxes due to high exemptions and fewer subject to the estate tax.
This document outlines a 3-episode series exploring arguments for and against the existence of God from different perspectives. Episode 1 examines William Paley's clock analogy argument and interviews various people's views on God. Episode 2 looks at explanations of God from religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam as well as Descartes' argument. Episode 3 features interviews with people who have had religious experiences and concludes with statistics on belief in God and a quote about the existence of God. The document also includes a 5-minute planning outline that structures the content over the 3 episodes.
The document discusses developments in environmental policy, the attractions of integrated delivery approaches, and lessons learned from a pilot catchment project in the Upper Thames region. Key points include: current policy emphasizes more integrated, landscape-scale approaches; integrating work could help share burdens, maximize outcomes, and increase involvement; the Water Framework Directive requires improved waterbody management and a catchment focus; and the pilot aimed to integrate existing work through collaboration but determining roles and long-term impact requires more time.
This presentation, given at the IASC European Conference, provides an overview of Commonland farming in the UK, and (reasonably) recent changes in legislation. The changes enabled the creation of Commons Councils, who had statutory powers, but its implementation has been slow.
James Kirwan discusses the issues of social innovation and localisation in relation to work carried out by the CCRI team looking at the Local Food Programme in England
Asset Based Community Develpement :Towards a Sustainable Approach.Ar. Salma Akter Surma
Asset-based community development (ABCD) focuses on community strengths rather than needs. ABCD identifies five key community asset categories: individuals, associations, institutions, physical assets, and connections between people. Mapping these assets helps communities recognize their inherent capacities and mobilize for change by building on existing skills and resources. Traditional needs-based approaches risk disempowering communities by focusing only on deficiencies. In contrast, ABCD starts from an asset perspective, believing communities can best create positive change by recognizing their inherent strengths.
This document discusses city innovation systems in Southeast Asia. It provides background on a project studying innovation in 6 Asian megacities, including that current innovation models do not sufficiently address urban challenges. The methodology involves analyzing case studies of innovations in each city across six dimensions and within the human-space ecology framework. Case studies will examine innovations that improve liveability, prosperity and equity. This will inform analysis of actors, interactions, learning, and policies within city innovation systems.
Community Driven Developement : Asset Based Develpement as MethodAr. Salma Akter Surma
The document discusses asset-based community development (ABCD) and provides an overview of its key principles and methodology.
1. ABCD focuses on identifying and mobilizing a community's existing assets, skills, and capacities rather than its needs and problems. This asset-based approach aims to empower communities and encourage self-reliance.
2. The methodology involves mapping community assets such as individual skills, associations, institutions, physical resources, and connections. This asset mapping helps communities recognize their strengths and mobilize around shared interests.
3. ABCD aims to shift the orientation of community development from a needs-based to an asset-based approach. Rather than creating a "problems map," ABCD helps communities develop
R&D investment in developing countries to address social challengesJosé Guimón
Why should developing countries invest in R&D and innovation? How can developing countries better align their R&D efforts towards societal needs? How to combine “grand challenge” with “small challenge” initiatives in social innovation? What lessons can be learnt from recent experiences in international R&D cooperation to address societal challenges?
This document outlines the course SFM 711 titled "Conservation and Rural Development". It covers development theories and approaches across two units. Unit 2 covers development theories, paradigms of development thinking, trends in development theories, conservation and development, sustainable development and goals. It discusses classical, populist, neo-liberal and livelihood approaches. Theories covered include poverty alleviation, dependency, modernization, neo-liberalization, environmentalism, sustainable development, and feminist theories.
Designing resilient creative communities through biomimetic service designRSD7 Symposium
This document discusses how adopting biomimetic tools in service design can increase the resilience of creative communities. It explores using nature as a model to design resilient social systems and organizations. Specifically, it examines how mapping connections between diverse interest groups within a social enterprise, like the Apano Meria organization, can create redundancy and thus more resilience, similar to ecosystems. The document concludes that a biomimetic, permaculture-inspired approach focusing on diffuse design capacity and cooperation between groups can help transition communities towards more sustainable models.
This document discusses approaches to measuring social innovation. It begins by explaining the need to measure social innovation to inform policymakers and understand what works. It then reviews existing indicator systems for measuring innovation, finding that they assume innovation is a non-linear process influenced by factors like resources, knowledge, technology, and culture. However, these systems need adjustments to properly capture social innovation. The document proposes a framework with indicators for enabling conditions, innovation activities, and social outcomes. Finally, it emphasizes sticking to a balanced definition of social innovation and connecting to existing indicators while meeting different information needs.
This document provides information about a workshop on the role of the creative economy in developing and sustaining vibrant communities in the UK. The workshop is part of the Connected Communities Programme, a collaboration between multiple UK research councils aimed at connecting research, organizations, and communities. The workshop will discuss challenges around understanding the creative economy's impacts and maximizing benefits for communities, with the goal of developing innovative project ideas to address gaps in knowledge. Attendees are encouraged to think creatively about new partnerships and approaches beyond single case studies. Follow-up funding opportunities are available for selected project proposals.
Presentation from the second of two workshops run by Social Life and Cisco about using digital technology to build resilient communities in Chicago's South Side.
Hands on social innovation: tools for tackling urban deprivationSaffron Woodcraft
The document describes workshops being held by The Young Foundation on May 12-13 about social innovation tools for tackling urban deprivation in Malmö and Copenhagen. The workshops will provide inspiration through case studies and practical social innovation tools and methods, help attendees think differently about the social problems they work on, and discuss putting ideas into practice.
This document discusses participatory culture and new forms of collaboration enabled by the internet. It covers traditional hierarchical models of collaboration compared to more democratic participation online. Two case studies are presented: Linux, which was developed through open-source contributions, and Wikipedia, which was created through open collaboration and editing. The document argues that the 21st century enables mass collaboration at a scale not possible before, with potential benefits for business and culture.
This document introduces a presentation on approaches to dialogue, deliberation, and visualization to promote shared understanding across levels, sectors, languages, and mindsets regarding sustainable futures. Some key points:
1. The presentation will discuss the "Digital Peters" project and CoLaboratory approaches to dialogue design.
2. It will provide examples of these dialogue and deliberation approaches for building capacity, orientation, and actions toward sustainable development.
3. The approaches aim to facilitate shared understanding across differences to support cooperation and decision-making.
TRANSIT Keynote at Social Innovation Vienna 2015TRANSIT Project
Learn all about transformative social innovation and the TRANSIT research project in an exciting keynote from its co-coordinator Flor Avelino of the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
It was presented at the joint TRANSIT and SI-DRIVE "Social Innovation 2015: Pathways to Social Change" conference in Vienna on 18 November 2015.
The TRANSIT project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 613169.
The document discusses measuring the impact of social innovation. It makes three key points:
1. Measuring the impact of social innovation is challenging due to its complex, long-term nature and dependence on social contexts.
2. Universities should better support the evaluation of social innovation through monitoring inputs/outputs, using relevant indicators, and developing new evaluation models like developmental evaluation.
3. Networks like OLTIS, CLT, and RQIS in Quebec help catalyze social innovation and support its evaluation through knowledge transfer between researchers and communities.
1. Social innovation results in new ideas that meet unmet social needs, like fair trade, restorative justice, and open universities. Many successful social innovations were promoted by the Young Foundation in the past.
2. Social innovation is driven by individuals, social movements, organizations across sectors, markets, politics, technology, and philanthropy. It involves generating ideas, prototyping, scaling, and learning from experience.
3. The report argues that social innovation is understudied and underfunded compared to business innovation, and that more can be done to accelerate social innovation through dedicated funds, incubators, cross-sector partnerships, and learning from other fields.
This document discusses the core design criteria for sustainable and resilient cities, including sustainability, resilience, liveability, adaptability, and being smart. It advocates for a systems approach and methodology for engineering cities that involves mapping interdependent urban systems, developing alternative solutions, assessing impacts, and conducting futures analysis to create interventions that can adapt to future changes. The document also lists several UK research facilities and programs focused on infrastructure and urban systems.
Social capital and development. There are two views of development: "Big Development" which focuses on transforming systems over the medium run through institutional reform, and "small development" which focuses on compensating for failed systems now by targeting particular groups. Social capital, understood as the norms and networks that enable cooperation, matters for both views. It is important for understanding how communities navigate social, rules-based, and meaning-based transitions during development. Social capital also influences contexts, processes, and adaptive decision-making, which are central to development policy and project implementation.
This document summarizes the work of the Plan Integral del Distrito V in Huelva, Spain, which aims to promote social and territorial innovation in its district through a bottom-up collaborative approach. Over the past 10 years, it has brought together over 55 diverse actors to implement projects that meet local needs, improve quality of life, and empower citizens through participatory governance structures. Some of its successes include renovating over 1,400 homes, establishing youth and health programs, and generating social studies. The plan seeks to holistically address challenges through democratic multi-level governance, trust-building networks, and continuous evaluation of its impact on social inclusion.
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Sania Dzalbe is a PhD student in economic geography at Umeå University in Sweden who studies how people in rural areas adapt to crisis and adversity. Drawing from her upbringing in rural Latvia, she notes the importance of social reproduction in sustaining rural livelihoods, which often goes overlooked in traditional regional economic analysis. She argues that the concept of resilience is connected to the concept of loss, as during moments of crisis and major restructuring, societies lose not only jobs and industries but also the very mechanisms through which they shape their environment, both physically and socially. Current resilience studies in economic geography tend to disregard the role of social reproduction and the losses experienced by individuals by predominantly focusing on firms and economic production. However, to understand the evolution of rural regions and communities amid various challenges they face, one must recognize that social reproduction cannot be separated from economic and knowledge production processes.
A presentation of participatory research methods and how CCRI has used them over time throughto the Living Labs approach now in use in a number of our grant funded research projects.
This presentation introduces the UK Treescapes Ambassador team and the research projects and research fellows they have funded under the programme.
The presentation also looks at some of the research being carried out at the CCRI on Trees, Woods and Forests.
This presentation highlights key methods and issues arising from the research in the EU Horizon funded projects MINAGRIS and SPRINT regading the presence and effect of pesticides and plastics in the soil.
This presentation considers the changing policy environment for public funding of agri-environment, the shift from entitlements to action-based funding and 'public good' outcomes, using a 'Test and Trials' case study.
Footage for the associated seminar: https://youtu.be/Z0Hkt7Sf0VA
The talk will focus on the current state of soil governance in Australia, alongside the recently released National Soil Strategy and debate how knowledge exchange on sustainable soil management is progressing. The need to maintain a healthy and functioning soil that is resilient and less vulnerable to climate change and land degradation is an ever-present goal. Yet to achieve this goal requires a critical mass of soil scientists who can effectively undertake research and more importantly people who can communicate such knowledge to farmers so that soil is protected through the use of landscape-appropriate practices. Decades of government de-investment and privatisation have led to a diminished and fragmented workforce that is distant from, rather than part of, the rural community, and farmers are also increasingly isolated with few functional social networks for knowledge exchange. Is it possible to chart a course that can see this decline in expertise and local soil knowledge corrected, and restore to it vitality and legitimacy?
Presentation made to CCRI as part of our seminar series. Footage of seminar: https://youtu.be/tWcArqtqxjI
Latvian meadows are inextricably connected to the Latvian identity. An identity built on the concept of the industrious peasant working their own land, free from the oppression of tyrannical regimes. This cultural association also feeds into the mid-summer festivals as the women weave the flower-filled crowns and people collect herbal teas to ward off illness over the winter. These biodiverse havens are under threat, as they are neglected or replaced with improved grasslands with their higher yields but lower diversity.
1) The document discusses research into how social and intellectual capital contribute to collective environmental action through Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund (CSFF) groups in the UK.
2) Key findings indicate that while CSFF funding aims to develop social capital, most knowledge sharing currently occurs between members with close ties, and there is limited evidence of collective environmental action.
3) Continued support is needed to strengthen relationships, facilitate knowledge exchange across different actor groups, and provide funding to enable CSFF groups to deliver landscape-scale environmental improvements over time.
Professor Ian Hodge's seminar for the CCRI on 24th October 2022.
There are two emergent movements in the governance of rural land: voluntary and local government initiatives that assess, plan and enhance landscape and biodiversity and a largely separate central government initiative for the development of Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes as a key element of national agricultural policy. This is developed and implemented by central government with a relatively large budget.
These two movements should be better integrated through the development of a system of Local Environmental Governance Organisations (LEGOs). A LEGO would stand as a ‘trustee’ with a remit to protect and enhance the quality of the local environment in the long term. It can assemble evidence on natural capital, co-ordinate amongst stakeholders and work with them to identify local priorities for nature recovery. It would search for synergies and collaborative partnerships and raise funds to support priority projects. A key point is that a proportion of central government funding should be devolved to LEGOs. This would link the vision being developed locally with the capacity to generate financial incentives for land managers to change land management.
Natural Cambridgeshire as the Local Nature Partnership is developing a number of the attributes of a LEGO. It is engaging with and appears to have support from a broad variety of stakeholders and is energising actions at several different levels. Through a local deliberative process, it can have a much clearer view of local opportunities and priorities than can be possible via central government. Natural Cambridgeshire has begun to raise funds but the likelihood is that this is will be too little, relatively short term and unsystematic. Longer term core funding would give Natural Cambridgeshire the capacity to back up proposals with financial support, potentially matching funding from other sources. It would then need to monitor and audit the implementation of projects and report on expenditure and outcomes. Over time it would adopt an adaptive approach to respond to outcomes and changing threats and opportunities.
National government needs to establish a framework for the development and operation of a system of LEGOs. It would continue to act in support of national standards, both through regulation and investment to meet international commitments, such as for biodiversity and climate change.
The presentation will give a brief overview of the 'UrbanFarmer' project and its various facets, including the integration of a cohort of Norwegian farmers and agricultural research organisations in the co-production of applied knowledge.
The main thrust of the presentation will be to present similarities and differences in the way that food in short food supply chains is marketed through different farm enterprise business models, and different sales channels. Differences in policy backdrops and other, related, contexts which help or hinder urban marketing through short food supply chains concluding with some ideas of emerging recommendations will also be explored.
Dr Anna Birgitte Milford is a researcher at Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, working on topics related to sustainable food production and consumption, including organic/pesticide reduced fruit and veg production, local sales channels and climate friendly diets. She was a visiting scholar at CCRI, University of Gloucestershire in autumn 2021 conducting field research on urban agriculture and local sales channels in Bristol.
Dr Dan Keech is a Senior Research Fellow at CCRI, University of Gloucestershire. His research topics cover European urban and alternative food networks, Anglo-German cultural geography and trans-disciplinary methods which link art and social science.
Slides from Damian Maye's Seminar - Using Living Labs to Strengthen Rural-Urban Linkages - Reflections from a multi-actor research project
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Presentation given by Dr Alessio Russ 8th July for CCRI seminar series.
Over the last few decades, the school of thought surrounding the urban ecosystem has increasingly become in vogue among researchers worldwide. Since half of the world’s population lives in cities, urban ecosystem services have become essential to human health and wellbeing. Rapid urban growth has forced sustainable urban developers to rethink important steps by updating and, to some degree, recreating the human–ecosystem service linkage. This talk addresses concepts and metaphors such as nature-based solutions and wellbeing, ecosystem services, nature-based thinking, urban regeneration, urban agriculture, urban-rural interface, rewilding.
The Going the Extra Mile (GEM) project aims to help people overcome challenges to employment and move closer to or into work. An evaluation team from the University of Gloucestershire conducted extensive monitoring and evaluation of GEM using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Process evaluations found that GEM provided innovative, relevant support during the pandemic. Outcomes evaluations found improvements in areas like skills, confidence and social connections. A social return on investment model estimated £2.50 returned for every £1 invested in GEM. Inclusive evaluation methods like digital storytelling captured personal impact stories. The evaluation aims to inform the design of any successor to GEM.
Developing networks, innovation and markets - Local food
1. Innovation: what’s that all about?
James Kirwan
jkirwan@glos.ac.uk
PUREFOOD Winter School
Barcelona
20th November 2012
2. Central questions
1. How can we understand the relationship
between innovation and paradigm change?
2. What are the purpose, role, and trigger(s) of
social innovation?
3. How is innovation governed?
4. What are the roles of social context, networks,
and trust in innovation?
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3. Session outline
• What is an innovation?
• Transition pathways and systems innovation
• Innovation, EU agriculture and rural areas
• Responsible innovation
• Social innovation
• Concluding thoughts
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4. Diffusion of an innovation model
• Rogers defines an innovation as "an idea,
practice, or object that is perceived as new by an
individual or other unit of adoption".
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5. Sustainability and innovation
• Tension between innovation and
institutionalisation i.e. the sustainability of the
innovation
• Innovation that is about sustainability
• Socio-technical transition theory
• Systems innovation and strategic niche
management
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7. Transition pathways
• Timing
• Nature of interaction
• Four ‘Transition Pathways’
• Multi-level perspective provides a global framing
• The ‘pathways’ are of ideal types
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8. Paradigm change?
• First order, or incremental, innovation
• Second order, or radical, innovation
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9. Systems innovation
• Sociotechnical perspective
• Strategic niche management (SNM)
• Niche development crucial to break path-
dependency and create new paths
• The paradox of SNM
• The MLP model has heuristic value, but in
practice niche-regime distinctions are rarely so
clear-cut, with blurred boundaries
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12. Implications for rural activities
and resources
• EU agriculture must become much
more resource-efficient
• The multifunctionality of rural spaces
must be maintained and increased
• Ecosystem services need more
attention and long-term planning
14. Sustainable intensification
“Achieving higher yields from the same
acreage without severely impacting the
environment requires a new way of
approaching food production - sustainable
intensification.” (Godfray et al 2010, p. 2776)
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15. Sustainable intensification
•Solutions from science and technology:
–Crop improvement
–Crop protection
–Sustainable livestock farming
–Mechanisation and engineering
–Nanotechnologies
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16. How best to promote innovation?
Fostering and promoting a climate in which innovation
is encouraged:
• Stronger research-practice linkages
• Communities of learning: advice, training and
information (awareness-raising)
• Boundaries, boundary objects and boundary brokers
• ‘Effective reformism’ (Klerkx, 2010)
• New networking and collaborative action
22. Responsible Innovation
• Uncertainty is a defining feature of innovation
• Unintended/unforeseen impacts and
consequences
• Need for reflection on the purpose and motivations
of science and innovation
• ‘Innovation’ as a non-linear, collective process that
translates ideas into value
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23. Responsible Innovation
• Uncertainty and ignorance: e.g. geo-engineering
• How should we proceed? Should we proceed at all?
How is this decision reached?
• Get the science right first and think through the
implications later?
• A ‘responsibility gap’.
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24. Responsible Innovation
• Responsible innovation defined as ‘taking care of
the future through collective stewardship of science
and innovation in the present’.
• Responsible innovation needs to be:
– Anticipatory
– Reflective
– Inclusive
– Responsive
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25. Responsible Innovation
• Stilgoe, J., Owen, R., Macnaghten, P., (2012) An
Outline Framework for Responsible Innovation:
Taking care of the future through collective
stewardship of science and innovation in the
present. A nine-month study supported by the
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
(EPSRC). .
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26. Social Innovation - Context
• Evaluation of the Big Lottery funded Local Food
programme.
• Giving voice to local food networks (LFNs).
• Moving beyond technocratic responses.
• Encompassing the social contribution of LFNs.
• Developing community capacity through
grassroots social innovations.
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27. Local Food programme
• £60 million programme.
• Launched in 2007.
• Distributes funds to more than 500 food related
projects, ranging from small grants of £2000 up to
£500,000 (‘Beacon’ projects).
• Aim: to make locally grown food accessible and
affordable to local communities.
• Ongoing evaluation from November 2009-March
2014. 27
28. Social Innovation
• Historically can be traced back to Max Weber.
• Socio-technical regimes.
• Distinctiveness of ‘social’ innovations.
– ‘Innovation does not occur in the medium of technical
artefact but at the level of social practice’.
– Interaction is at the centre of any social innovation.
• Social innovations are effectively ‘acts of change’.
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29. Social Innovation
• “Social innovation can be defined as mould-breaking ways
of confronting unmet social need by creating new and
sustainable capabilities, assets or opportunities for
change” (Adams and Hess, 2008, page 3).
• A focus on asset building rather than needs.
• The community viewed as a social agent.
• Governance shift from centralised action to local
action.
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30. Grassroots Social Innovation
• Innovations associated with economic innovations and,
in particular, technical efficiency.
• “Networks of activists and organisations generating
novel bottom-up solutions” Seyfang and Smith (2007, p. 585).
• Two key goals:
– To satisfy the needs of those people or communities who may
in some way be disadvantaged (intrinsic benefits/simple niche).
– An ideological commitment to develop alternatives to the
mainstream hegemonic regime (diffusion ben./strategic niche) .
• Developing the capacities of communities to respond to
locally identified problems. 30
31. The five dimensions of social innovation
(adapted from Moulaert et al. (2005) and Adams and Hess (2008)
2. Changes to social
1. The satisfaction of relations through 3. Increasing socio-
human needs process political capability and
access to resources
Grassroots social
innovations as a means
of developing community
capacity
4. Asset building at 5. The community as
an individual and a social agent
community level
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32. Discussion of social innovation
• Conceptualising LFNs as grassroots social innovations
extends understanding of their wider impacts.
• Enabled a reinterpretation of what is meant by the terms
‘accessible’ and ‘affordable’.
• Extended discussion beyond material benefits to
incorporate social needs.
• Food as the pretext and vector for developing community
capacity.
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33. Discussion of social innovation
Social innovations as “new forms of civic involvement,
participation and democratisation... contributing to an
empowerment of disadvantaged groups and leading to
better citizen involvement which may, in turn, lead to a
satisfaction of hitherto unsatisfied human needs”.
Neumeier (2011, p. 53)
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34. Concluding thoughts
• Social and technological innovations.
• To transform things for the better. E.g.
– To transform farm-level knowledge and practices
– To develop new businesses based upon sustainable
resource management
– To satisfy ‘unsatisfied human needs’
• New ways of working and developing policy
• New institutional arrangements
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