Abstract
An increasing number of social innovators are leveraging cities as urban learning ecosystems in order to experiment with design approaches to tackle societal challenges at a local level. However, the scale and complexity of these challenges force them to constantly acquire new capabilities to advance the local experimentation towards systemic change. We introduce co-design as a transformative community-driven design method to facilitate innovators to continuously identify, connect, co-define, and share with other peers their learning journeys to build capacity over time for addressing societal challenges. The current article elaborates upon a capacity-building framework that not only resulted in elaborate training activities for urban transformations, but also fostered a community of practice that was instrumental to self-sustain a learning network. Results highlight the importance of developing a collaborative learning infrastructure capable of expanding the pool of societal actors contributing to the further diffusion and co-creation of knowledge for urban transformations
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 119-140 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Interaction Design and Architecture(s) |
Issue number | 52 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Funding
Horizon2020 Grant Agreement No. 763784Keywords
- Capacity building
- Co-design
- Collaborative learning
- Learning ecosystem
- Reflection
- Self-development
- Urban innovators
- Urban transformations.