PhD defence by Jens Dorland
Transformative Social Innovation Theory: Spaces & Places for Social Change
Tidspunkt
08.03.2019 kl. 13.00 - 16.00
Beskrivelse
The developed world is facing numerous challenges to the modern welfare state related to issues like justice, poverty, environmental preservation, climate change, improved health, social exclusion, aging demographics, and gentrification. This dissertation investigated how spaces enabling social innovation processes locally can be facilitated, arguing that there is a need to study the internal organizing efforts in social innovation networks to understand how to build local agency. The dissertations build on a study of 20 social innovation networks working to address some of these challenges conducted in the TRANSIT project. The findings are presented in a tripartite discussion of 1) the materiality of translocal interaction and empowerment that illustrates how different types of resources and empowerment depends on specific objects and material forms, 2) macro-actors and staging, which in relation to SI networks is first and foremost about creating a context where the process of creating a network and developing their SI can take place, and 3) network configurations that scale out horizontally from local-to-local without any central organizing, or vertical scaling up where SI networks try to impact other macro-actors like public authorities and societal institutions. The discussion thus lays the foundation for a framework to understand and facilitate the type of organizing and social innovation I have studied.
ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE
Professor Dominique Vinck | Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Professor Andrea Vargui | Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sassari, Italy
Associate Professor Søren Kerndrup (Chairman) | Department of Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark
SUPERVISORS
Associate Professor Michael Søgaard Jørgensen | Department of Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark
MODERATOR
Professor Emeritus Christian Clausen | Department of Planning, Aalborg University,
Denmark
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Pris
FREE OF CHARGE
Arrangør
Department of Planning, Aalborg University
Adresse
A. C. Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 Copenhagen SV
Tilmelding inden
05.03.2019 kl. 12.00