How Cities Learn: From Experimentation to Transformation

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21720%2F21%3A00353537" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21720/21:00353537 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v6i1.3545" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v6i1.3545</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v6i1.3545" target="_blank" >10.17645/up.v6i1.3545</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

How Cities Learn: From Experimentation to Transformation

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Cities must change rapidly to address a range of sustainability challenges. While urban experimentation has prospered as a framework for innovation, it has struggled to stimulate broader transformation. We offer a novel contribution to this debate by focusing on what municipalities learn from experimentation and how this drives organisational change. The practicalities of how municipalities learn and change has received relatively little attention, despite the recognised importance of learning within the literature on urban experiments and the central role of municipalities in enabling urban transformation. We address this research gap, drawing on four years of in-depth research coproduced with European municipal project coordinators responsible for designing and implementing the largest urban research and innovation projects ever undertaken. This cohort of professionals plays a critical role in urban experimentation and transformation, funnelling billions of Euros into trials of new solutions to urban challenges and coordinating large public-private partnerships to deliver them. For our respondents, learning how to experiment more effectively and embedding these lessons into their organisations was the most important outcome of these projects. We develop the novel concept of process learning to capture the importance of experimentation in driving organisational change. Process learning is significant because it offers a new way to understand the relationship between experimentation and urban transformation and should form the focus of innovation projects that seek to prompt broader urban transformation, rather than technical performance. We conclude by identifying implications for urban planning and innovation funding.

Název v anglickém jazyce

How Cities Learn: From Experimentation to Transformation

Popis výsledku anglicky

Cities must change rapidly to address a range of sustainability challenges. While urban experimentation has prospered as a framework for innovation, it has struggled to stimulate broader transformation. We offer a novel contribution to this debate by focusing on what municipalities learn from experimentation and how this drives organisational change. The practicalities of how municipalities learn and change has received relatively little attention, despite the recognised importance of learning within the literature on urban experiments and the central role of municipalities in enabling urban transformation. We address this research gap, drawing on four years of in-depth research coproduced with European municipal project coordinators responsible for designing and implementing the largest urban research and innovation projects ever undertaken. This cohort of professionals plays a critical role in urban experimentation and transformation, funnelling billions of Euros into trials of new solutions to urban challenges and coordinating large public-private partnerships to deliver them. For our respondents, learning how to experiment more effectively and embedding these lessons into their organisations was the most important outcome of these projects. We develop the novel concept of process learning to capture the importance of experimentation in driving organisational change. Process learning is significant because it offers a new way to understand the relationship between experimentation and urban transformation and should form the focus of innovation projects that seek to prompt broader urban transformation, rather than technical performance. We conclude by identifying implications for urban planning and innovation funding.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/LO1605" target="_blank" >LO1605: Univerzitní centrum energeticky efektivních budov – Fáze udržitelnosti</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Urban Planning

ISSN

2183-7635

e-ISSN

2183-7635

Svazek periodika

6

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

PT - Portugalská republika

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

171-182

Kód UT WoS článku

000634010300003

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85103430604