Beschreibung
City administrations are facing a whole range of challenges on the social, environmental and economic fronts. New competences are being transferred from the national or regional levels while the budgets available to tackle them are shrinking. In this increasingly difficult context, social innovation, in many European Cities, has been seen as a new asset. Citizens are taking promising initiatives, by designing and implementing new sustainable solutions to solve their day-to-day problems in their neighborhoods.So far, social innovation has been understood predominantly as a local phenomenon by most of the scholars investigating it. However, it entails manifold risks for both social research and action. In this workshop we wonder whether considering social innovation as a local phenomenon entails the risk of falling into ‘the local trap’ (a priori assumption that the local scale is preferable to larger scales). Escaping the local trap entails embracing a more comprehensive and relational approach on how social innovation actually moves between and across scales, depending on the strategies it adopts and on the institutional scalar arrangements framing its development.
| Zeitraum | 7 Okt. 2019 |
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| Gehalten am | Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norwegen |