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INTRODUCTION
No full textThe "introduction" is the introductory chapter of the book "Innovation Capacity and the City". This open access book makes up one of the key milestones of the DESIGNSCAPES project, a H2020 CSA (Coordination and Support Action) research project funded by the European Commission under the Call “User-driven innovation: value creation through design-enabled innovation. It shows that adopting Design enables to embed Innovation within the City in order to conceptualize feasible answers to complex global challenges. By so doing, innovation can become disruptive for the values it brings while at the same time igniting dynamics of gradual change in the "urbanscape" it acts within. To explore this potential, the concept is developed of “Design enabled Innovation in urban environments” looking at the role that the City can play in promoting and facilitating the adoption of Design by public and private sector innovators. This leads to a possible evaluation framework whereby an urbanscape is considered with respect to both its innovation generation capacity and to the nature (more or less Design dependent, or prone) of the innovative initiatives it hosts. This thread of reasoning has many promising implications, including the proposal of a "third way" between the dreamers of an alternative economic model where revenues and growth are sacrificed on the altar of social and environmental respect, and the supporters of traditional market based view, who think it is enough to add a touch of responsibility and concern to a system that should continue rewarding the profitability of innovations
Urban Living Labs: opportunities in and for planning
No full textThis chapter explores some of the most significant potentials of Living Lab environments in urban systems while viewing urban planning as the entire set of transformative practices possible and available in urban contexts. It explores three main potentials of Urban Living Labs, i.e., their being practice-based innovation environments, their capacity to create cross-boundary arenas where many diverse actors and organizations can interact, and, lastly, their being contexts for new modes of urban activism. This chapter also analyzes some challenges launched by Living Labs in urban environments and discusses some possible roles for planners who recognize Living Lab potentials as transformative drivers. Finally, considering the collective (public) experimental perspective introduced by Urban Living Labs, the idea of the city as a laboratory is discussed
The Data Shake: An Opportunity for Experiment-Driven Policy Making
No full textThe wider availability of data and the growing technological advancements in data collection, management, and analysis introduce unprecedented opportunities, as well as complexity in policy making. This condition questions the very basis of the policy making process towards new interpretative models. Growing data availability, in fact, increasingly affects the way we analyse urban problems and make decisions for cities: data are a promising resource for more effective decisions, as well as for better interacting with the context where decisions are implemented. By dealing with the operative implications in the use of a growing amount of available data in policy making processes, this contribution starts discussing the chance offered by data in the design, implementation, and evaluation of a planning policy, with a critical review of the evidence-based policy making approaches; then it introduces the relevance of data in the policy design experiments and the conditions for its uses
Experimenting between Design and Planning
No full textPrefazione al Volume collettaneo Human Smart Citie
Turning Data into Actionable Policy Insights
No full textIt is becoming clearer that data-supported input is essential in the policy making process. But at which point of the process, and in which format, can data aid policy making? And what does an organisation need to turn data into relevant insights? This paper explores the role of data from two perspectives. In the first part, data and data analysis are situated in the policy making process by mapping them onto the data supported policy making model and highlighting the different roles they can assume in each stage and step of the process. The second part discusses a practical framework for policy-oriented data activities, zooming in on the data-specific actions and the actors performing them in each data-supported step of the policy making process. We observe that a close collaboration between the policy maker and data scientist in the framework of an iterative approach permits to transform the policy question into a suited data analysis question and deliver relevant insights with the flexibility desired by decision makers. In conclusion, for data to be turned into actionable policy insights it is vital to set up structures that ensure the presence and the collaboration of policy-oriented and data-oriented competences
Bricolaging Knowledge and Practices in Spatial Strategy Making
No full textThis book chapter is included in the book “Making Strategies in Spatial Planning. Knowledge and Values” edited by Cerreta M., Concilio G., Monno V. and published in 2010 by Springer (Dordrecht).
It tries to look at strategy making by abandoning the vision of strategy as an end-product and also considering that the future is changing along the path from present to future which means that it cannot be known in advance. Therefore the chapter is aimed at reframing the concept of strategy making. The attempt to re-conceptualize strategy making starts from considering modes for complex organizations to develop a strategy by using, producing and appropriating knowledge and practices while composing knowledge and practices in a coherent whole towards a needed change.
In the first part, this chapter, explores the connection between knowledge and action in strategy making, recognizing that knowledge and action are linked together by a mutual framing dependency. Being embedded in social relations, routines, and day-to-day practices, knowledge cannot be moved towards the planning action; it is rather action that needs to be developed inside those spaces of the organization where knowledge is available for use, i.e. is actionable. Referring to strategy making, such spaces are identified as strategic episodes through which organizations appropriate knowledge and practices while testing them against a needed change. Strategy is seen as a dynamic entity evolving together with the organizational structure and is described as the dynamic product of a bricolage activity: resources for the bricolage are knowledge and practices explored and internalized by the organization with respect to a needed change.
In the second part the ‘story of a strategy’ is described and analyzed: it refers to the planning experience carried out in Torre Guaceto, a Natural Reserve in southern Italy. This experience shows clearly that strategy is not a predetermined entity and that the organization does not know a-priori what its future will be. The strategy, in Torre Guaceto, is a bricolage product of diverse resources: knowledge and practices developed in very particular organizational spaces, defined as strategic episodes, where an organization is forced to re-think itself against and towards a needed change.
Finally, the chapter considers the possibility to look at strategic episodes as spaces for the micro-foundation of strategy and opens a small perspective for further research towards other micro-foundational aspects or spaces in strategy making
Multiexpert knowledge acquisition for rehabilitation strategies of historical urban centres
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