An interdisciplinary debate on project perspectives
From: Signals of sustainability transition: Sensing enabling factors through cultural initiatives
General impact determinants | Comprehensive enabling factors | Initiative-based learning | Interactions across system levels | Transformative effects Resulting from scaling-up dynamics |
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Case-specific enabling factors Resulting through the observation of one/more initiatives in one context | Identification of key scaling mechanisms | |||
Knowledge and abilities | Enhancing skills and expertise | • Experts from the impact domain (e.g. urban regeneration) have been included in the development of cultural actions • Local knowledge has been embedded in the design of cultural activities | Scaling up Cultural actions at the niche level start growing and becoming more stable. In the long-term, this trend might affect institutional structures, e.g. through re-alignment or innovation Key interaction: Collaboration between niches and regimes | • Emergent practices formalised through norms and regulation • New pervasive narratives created • New values consolidated • Widened adoption of novel practices from social impact domains • Expanded adoption of novel practices by synergising functions and domains • Learning |
Facilitating knowledge acquisition and diffusion | • Collaboration agreements have been signed with local research bodies • Results from the cultural actions are disseminated throughout local networks | |||
Norms and regulations | Rooting in norms and regulations from the impact domains | • The Involvement of cultural operators in urban regeneration processes is formally recognized • Cultural operators participate in co-design experiments seeking to support policy recommendations | ||
Narratives and discourses | Emphasising innovation and novelty | • Innovative cultural actions become a reference point for the development of neighbourhood initiatives | ||
Resources and infrastructures | Access to financial resources | • Private–public partnerships are signed • Sponsorship agreements are promoted by cultural institutions | ||
Access and activation of spaces and infrastructures | • Underused cultural venues are activated • New technological infrastructures are developed | |||
Networks and partnerships | Political recognition and support | • The Municipality formally acknowledges the relevance of the initiatives launched | ||
Emergence and consolidation of collaborative schemes | • The Cultural Unit and the Urban Planning Department of the Municipality develop new forms of collaborations • A new network involving local cultural associations and institutions emerges |