Like many other European cities, Malmö has set ambitious goals to become Sweden’s first carbon-neutral city by 2030. This objective is aligned with several public entities such as the Öresund Region, the Swedish Energy Agency, the European Union, and the UN within the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Urban Development. However, statistics show that this goal is very difficult, if not, impossible to reach, as the city has achieved 32% of renewable energy by the end of 2020. Furthermore, the region of Skåne is currently facing problems regarding electricity shortage due to the lack of production in the region and network capacity in the national grid. This study identifies at least two major causes to explain why the energy transition in the city of Malmö does not see the light at the end of the tunnel. First, there is a dominant political narrative in Sweden that favors centralized and intensive capital solutions that may result in the lock-in of alternatives that aim for a more decentralized energy system. Second, the high trust in technological innovation to solve societal challenges has reduced Social Innovation (SI) as a tool that only complements technological advances (e.g., offshore wind turbines and smart grids). Therefore, this mainstream eliminates the capacity of Social Innovation in the Energy Sector (SIE) as an opportunity to contest dominant structures and make transformative changes at the institutional level within the energy system. Within this context, regime actors such as Large-scale Energy Companies (LECs) have an important role in impeding but possibly also enabling SIE and facilitating the sustainable and just energy transition in Sweden. Drawing on the Transformative Social Innovation-framework, this thesis analyzes three SIE-initiatives developed by E.ON Group in collaboration with other actors. An embedded-case study approach and mixed methods (mapping, document review, semi-structured interviews, and thematic and discourse analysis) were the basis of this research to understand the transformative potential of each initiative. The results of the study conclude that LECs participate actively in the development of SIE. It shows that projects like SWITCH/CoordiNET change internal social relations but not institutional relations, while others such as Sege Park and Smart Cities Accelerator+ have big potential of transformative change and may replace and alter dominant informal and formal institutions. It also demonstrates how E.ON and the City of Malmö are challenging the dominant political narrative in Sweden. Building on the latter empirical findings, this thesis suggests recommendations for city actors (public sector, businesses, organizations, and individuals) to create alliances and reach the goal of producing 100% renewable energy while aiming for a more sustainable and just energy system in the city of Malmö.

My degree work has been an exploration in what specific skills, knowledge and understan­dings that are needed in service design as a practice, in order to successfully engage in complex contexts with multiple stakeholders, different relations, structures and regulations. In this investigation, I have been especially interested in the role of physical forms in a process where social structures are discussed and reshaped. With the ambition to create a learning process within this area I have, in collaboration with Förnyelselabbet, been part of a study in Malmö that focus on children and youth with migra­tion experiences living in vulnerable housing situations. The study is done in collaboration with multiple actors such as City of Malmö, The Red Cross, Rädda Barnen, Unicef, Skåne Stadsmission, Sensus etc. These are actors that share the same goal to highlight needs and experiences amongst children and youths. In my work I have designed tools with the ambition to unfold and deepen the under­standing of situations, meetings and objects that could enable a feeling of safety, comfort and joy when living in a vulnerable housing situation. In this context, I have recognized the importance of exploring the role of meeting points. For this purpose, I have used three objects; the slide; the sofa and the set table. As a result of this degree project I created something I call a material probe, a object with the function to visualise needs and trigger responses. This material probe captures three fundamental needs; a slide – the possibility for play and activity, a sofa – the possibility for gaining the feeling of safety and belonging, a table – the possibility for sharing experiences and information. By visualising and materialising these needs, I hope to create a discussion that unfolds challenges and promotes the children’s perspective. My work to narrow down the needs is based on multiple interviews and stories from children, youths and parents. The main question is what happens to the continued development process when research findings, needs and experiences are visualised. The main goal of this degree project has been to articulate and reflect on how service designers can combine knowledge within process design, institutional design and design of physical form. How service design as a practice can develop and if including physical forms and visualisations at a higher level in our work can help the development process forward.

Social innovation brings about sustainability which is regarded as a new paradigm for development. In order to bring about social innovation, cross-sector collaboration among different actors is required. However, it is known that establishing cross-sector collaboration is very complex, especially in a penta helix model where the public administration, business, academia, third sector and citizens are all involved. The research aims to investigate the initial conditions for establishing penta helix collaboration in the context of co-produced social innovation from the perspectives of core co-producers. Through a case study of ReTuren, a co-produced public platform for waste handling and prevention in Malmö, Sweden, the research finds out four themes of initial conditions, viz. environment, resources, relationships, and strategy. It is also discussed that the significance of these conditions to the collaboration establishment can depend on the development stage of the social innovation initiative. The research also provides new insights about the unclear boundary and the flexible role of each sector in the penta helix model. Based on the findings, an adapted model of initial conditions from Bryson et al. (2015) for penta helix collaboration in social innovation is created.

For-profit social enterprises are facing the dual challenges of fulfilling social purpose on the one hand and surviving business competition on the other. Being a sustainable for-profit social enterprise, the company must balance between economic, social and environmental aspects throughout their business operations. In order to achieve the desired end of sustainability, organization need to keep learning about the social needs and the business environment in order to develop sustainable business processes, and better fulfill their purpose as organizations formed to create social value. The study aims to fill the gaps in sustainability research literature about organizational learning in for-profit social enterprises by exploring how effective learning processes occur at individual, group and organizational level and how to facilitate these learning processes to improve sustainability. The study develops an analytical framework by combining the 4I framework for organizational learning process (Crossan et al., 1999) and an AKO (activities, knowledge source, outcomes) framework for understanding learning activities, knowledge sources and learning outcomes. Four for-profit social enterprises in both Denmark and Sweden are chosen as cases. Based on findings, three organizational learning mechanisms are identified on selected cases. Practical implications and insights are also generated for for-profit social enterprises to facilitate organizational learning for sustainability.

Stakeholder participation and perceptions by urban practitioners is a study area that requires further research, particularly in socially innovative living concepts where quality of life and social sustainability are key considerations for end-user stakeholders. The aim of this paper is to contribute to knowledge of these innovations by focusing on urban practitioners’ perception of end-user participation in innovations of living such as co-housing, sharing communities and cooperatives that have been built recently responding to societal needs and growing concerns over social sustainability in urban areas. This study answers research questions of perception of urban practitioners towards the participation of end-user stakeholders, practitioners’ perception in its use of organisational learning, and their interpretation regarding the distribution of power between all stakeholders. Through the lens of a theoretical background based on stakeholder theory and shared value creation, power, empowerment and sharing of power, adaptive and resilient organisations concepts; and adaptive organisational learning processes. Semi-structured interviews with practitioners, employed in the cities of Malmö and Copenhagen, were conducted, transcribed and then interpreted by the authors through an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis methodology that was used to interpret data. Findings suggest that most perceive a value in stakeholder participation and those practitioners exposed to end-user stakeholder participation have a higher comprehension of its potential value. Respondents agreed that the municipality remains a key stakeholder in the shaping process, even though this was not part of initial questioning. Finally, there is a notion of an interplay between power and financial resources that still controls the development process. The paper concludes while there is a perceived value of the processes and knowledge sharing on the process of end-user stakeholders not all perceive the benefits. The authors recommend further development in this area to increase comprehension, knowledge sharing of the possibilities and barriers to innovations of living.

De nombreux travaux sociologiques ont analysé les processus de développement des pratiques auto-organisées. En France, ils ont notamment montré le rôle structurant des acteurs publics qui ont accompagné, en particulier par leurs politiques d’équipement et d’aménagement d’espaces sportifs, la naissance puis le développement de ces activités sportives peu institutionnalisées. L’analyse comparée des sept communes de Yaoundé (capitale du Cameroun) montre que cette articulation entre les politiques sportives et les pratiques auto-organisées pourrait se construire autrement dans les pays en voie de développement.Le cadre théorique, structuré autour des concepts « d’action publique » et « d’innovation sociale », a centré l’analyse sur deux hypothèses. La première envisage la faible influence des politiques publiques sur les espaces urbains dédiés à la pratique sportive de proximité. La deuxième renvoie à la capacité des pratiquants auto-organisés à inventer des modalités originales d’accès aux espaces sportifs.Au plan empirique, trois techniques de recueil de matériaux ont été combinées : l’analyse documentaire pour appréhender la place des espaces sportifs à Yaoundé, l’observation non participante (un « circuit urbain » a produit un recensement inédit des lieux de pratiques) et les entretiens semi-directifs pour analyser les mécanismes d’appropriation des espaces sportifs.L’analyse des matériaux empiriques montre que l’espace sportif de Yaoundé est davantage structuré par une articulation innovante, fondée sur des processus de négociation et/ou de location, entre des acteurs intermédiaires (propriétaires fonciers ou chefs de quartiers) et les pratiquants auto-organisés, plutôt que par des pouvoirs publics qui privilégient le sport de haut-niveau. / Numerous sociological works analyzed the processes of development of the auto-organized practices. In France, they showed in particular the role structuring public actors who accompanied, in particular by their policies of equipment and arrangement of sports spaces, the birth then the development of these little institutionalized sports activities. The analysis compared by seven municipalities of Yaoundé (capital of Cameroon) shows that this articulation between the sports politics and the auto-organized practices could build itself differently in developing countries.The theoretical frame, structured around the concepts “of public action” and “of social innovation ”, centered the analysis on two hypotheses. The first one envisages the low influence of publics politics on the urban spaces dedicated to the sports practice of closeness. The second sends back to the capacity of the followers auto-organized to invent original modalities of access to the sports spaces.In the empirical plan, three techniques of collection of materials were organized : the documentary analysis to dread the place of the sports spaces to Yaoundé, the not participating observation (a “urban circuit” produced an unpublished inventory to the places of practices) and the semi-directive conversations to analyze the mechanims of appropriation of the sports spaces.The analysis of the empirical materials shows that the sports space of Yaoundé is more structured by an innovative articulation, based on processes of negociation and/or rent, between intermediate actors (property owners or leaders of districts) and the auto-organized followers, rather than by public authorities which favor the sport of top-level.

The objective of this study is threefold. The first objective is to provide an integrated perspective towards the territorial engagement of universities and their related models and strategies. The second objective is to verify whether tendencies pointing to an integrated strategy of university engagement are emerging in real settings, while the third objective is to deepen the understanding of the university’s potential contribution to social innovation practices. The first part of the work is devoted to review the literature on the institutionalization of university third mission and its relation to university territorial engagement and it presents an analysis of the different university models and strategies adopted by the academic system to reach engagement goals in the last decades. In this context, the System-based University is introduced as a university model which encompasses an integrated approach to university territorial engagement. Such model is built upon contributions on Civic and Developmental universities and their role in local socio-economic dynamics. It presents itself as an integrated model that includes but goes beyond the focus on technology transfer featuring third mission activities embodied at the beginning of the 21st century by the so-called Entrepreneurial university. The System-based model is represented by three main factors: i) synergy between the core missions of teaching and research and the third mission, ii) alignment between the needs expressed by the territory and the knowledge produced by the university, and iii) a balanced approach to research excellence. The second part of the work proposes an empirical analysis aimed at identifying tendencies towards system-based models of university, in particular within the Italian academic system. This part makes use of multivariate statistical techniques. Eventually, the third part aims at deepening the role of universities in the social innovation realm, drawing on the few contributions on this topic and on a recent stream of research that connects social innovation to quadruple helix model of interaction between government, industry, universities and civil society. Namely, this last part investigates how and why universities may engage in quadruple helix partnerships, applying an exploratory case study methodology on data stemming from the Urban Innovative Actions, a novel European programme in the context of social innovation in urban areas.

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(地球環境学) / 甲第24953号 / 地環博第244号 / 新制||地環||48(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院地球環境学舎地球環境学専攻 / (主査)教授 西前 出, 准教授 淺野 悟史, 教授 小林 広英 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Global Environmental Studies / Kyoto University / DGAM

This master’s thesis aims to explore the potential of visual communication as a powerful tool for promoting change and impact in Namibia with a focus on sustainable agriculture and food security. The study analyzes how graphic design and visual communication may effectively explain best practices for sustainable farming and inspire young adults in rural communities to engage with agriculture through empirical research. The study employs a Research Through Design (RtD) methodology to answer the following question: How can design help vulnerable communities and promote long-term food security solutions in Namibia through subsistence farming or agriculture?  The study’s findings highlight the importance of design in promoting sustainable agriculture by raising awareness, empowering communities, and advocacy for policy changes. Through its innate ability to attract and captivate audiences, visual communication may successfully distribute information about sustainable farming techniques and highlight their benefits. This thesis demonstrates how appealing visual narratives may stimulate young people’s curiosity, build passion and inspire them to learn and embrace sustainable agricultural methods.  The conclusion of this thesis suggests key recommendations for improving disadvantaged group’s access to resources and training. Land reform policies that favor small-scale farmers and support their subsistence farming efforts which are critical for guaranteeing food security. Furthermore, resolving water scarcity and boosting access to irrigation systems are critical considerations for Namibia’s sustainable agricultural practices to empower disadvantaged groups and encourage positive change. / <p>Examensarbetet är utfört vid Institutionen för teknik och naturvetenskap (ITN) vid Tekniska fakulteten, Linköpings universitet</p>

Kooperativet, den medlemsägda organisationen, befinner sig i intersektionen mellan samhällsnytta och vinst. I det kooperativa sammanhanget blir alternativa former av innovation vid sidan av den Schumpeterianska tekniska innovationen relevant såsom den svårfångade sociala innovationen. Denna studie undersöker hur innovation skapas i kooperativ och innovationsprocessens utfall. Detta görs genom en fallstudie med SAMI (Svenska Artisters och Musikers Intresseorganisation) som fall där vi kartlade innovationsprocessen kopplad till deras nya mobilapplikation SAMI-appen. Vi har tillämpat en kvalitativ metod där vi intervjuat fem respondenter, varav fyra chefer och en anställd på SAMI. Studiens resultat är att SAMI:s innovationsprocess följer den Schumpeterianska innovationsprocessen och att utfallet, SAMI-appen, både är en teknisk och social innovation. I ett outforskat forskningsområde lämnar vi ett empiriskt och teoretiskt bidrag där vi kom fram till att kooperativet i SAMI:s fall alstrar en ny alternativ form av innovation: medlemsinnovation.