An interdisciplinary debate on project perspectives
Table 3 Illustrative example: scaling deep
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-deep dynamics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Case-specific enabling factors Resulting through the observation of one/more initiatives in one context | Identification of key scaling mechanisms | |||
Knowledge and abilities | Facilitating experience exchange | • Local fora development to ease experience exchange among practitioners working in urban regeneration • Feedback about ongoing activities is exchanged within neighbourhood associations | Scaling deep Creation/birth of constellations of practices implementing learning experiments (mainly regime driven) Key interactions: Regime drives, supports, enables niches; niches activate experiments with very low involvement of regime; niches challenge the regime | • Local rooting of new practices and related values • Local learning through experiments on influencing culture, practices and structures • Widened constellation ecosystem • Local learning through experiments on influencing culture, practices and structures • New culture, practices and structures’ potential shown to regimes |
Supporting shared reflection | • Citizens involved in the development of the initiative(s) discuss the importance of cultural actions in relation to local identity issues • Citizens involved in the development of the initiative(s) discuss about their expectations for the future of the neighbourhood | |||
Norms and regulations | Rooting in norms and regulations from the impact domains | • Cultural operators participate in co-design experiments seeking to support policy making | ||
Narratives and discourses | Aligning with discourses emerging in the impact domain | • In line with well-being-oriented approaches to urban planning, cultural operators launch activities to promote active lifestyle | ||
Resources and infrastructures | Activation of dedicated working groups | • Practitioners from the cultural sector collaborate with local institutions | ||
Access and activation of spaces and infrastructures | • Underused urban spaces are activated • Private venues are made available for public exhibitions | |||
Networks and partnerships | Emergence and consolidation of collaborative schemes | • Cultural operators collaborate with local schools for the re-activation of neighbourhood spaces | ||
Involvement of co-beneficiaries | • Culture-led projects targeting e.g., urban regeneration directly involve vulnerable target groups |