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Transformative roles of people and places: learning, experiencing, and regenerative action through social innovation
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3719-6388
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8693-7202
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This paper discusses the transformative role of people and the places which they inhabit. It advocates the richness and multiplicity of actors and understandings to drive sustainable place-shaping practices. Grounded in the interdisciplinary place-based conceptualisation of social innovation, the paper aims to progress a holistic conceptual framework which integrates the active processes of learning, experiencing, and regeneration to tackle the complex challenges of sustainability. The discussion argues for moving beyond the conceptual deliberations into practice-based research. The framework proposed brings together three different lenses: first, transformative learning as an approach to experiential pedagogy with focus on education and learning based in local communities and the surrounding places; second, experiencing place through sense-making to help people relate closely to their values and meanings of place; third, regenerative action to reverse and recuperate from the negative impact of humans on the environment and promote place stewardship. Through a dynamic combination of these processes, new socially innovative agency is created. Empirical examples of this agency have been captured in this paper from a series of projects which were part of the SUSPLACE programme. In conclusion, we associate the interactive nature of this agency with sustainable re-learning, re-experiencing, and re-generation processes to reshape places in a transformative way.
Transformative roles of people and places: learning, experiencing, and regenerative action through social innovation
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3719-6388
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8693-7202
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8594-8009
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7452-2504
This paper discusses the transformative role of people and the places which they inhabit. It advocates the richness and multiplicity of actors and understandings to drive sustainable place-shaping practices. Grounded in the interdisciplinary place-based conceptualisation of social innovation, the paper aims to progress a holistic conceptual framework which integrates the active processes of learning, experiencing, and regeneration to tackle the complex challenges of sustainability. The discussion argues for moving beyond the conceptual deliberations into practice-based research. The framework proposed brings together three different lenses: first, transformative learning as an approach to experiential pedagogy with focus on education and learning based in local communities and the surrounding places; second, experiencing place through sense-making to help people relate closely to their values and meanings of place; third, regenerative action to reverse and recuperate from the negative impact of humans on the environment and promote place stewardship. Through a dynamic combination of these processes, new socially innovative agency is created. Empirical examples of this agency have been captured in this paper from a series of projects which were part of the SUSPLACE programme. In conclusion, we associate the interactive nature of this agency with sustainable re-learning, re-experiencing, and re-generation processes to reshape places in a transformative way.
Transformative roles of people and places: learning, experiencing, and regenerative action through social innovation
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3719-6388
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8693-7202
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8594-8009
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7452-2504
This paper discusses the transformative role of people and the places which they inhabit. It advocates the richness and multiplicity of actors and understandings to drive sustainable place-shaping practices. Grounded in the interdisciplinary place-based conceptualisation of social innovation, the paper aims to progress a holistic conceptual framework which integrates the active processes of learning, experiencing, and regeneration to tackle the complex challenges of sustainability. The discussion argues for moving beyond the conceptual deliberations into practice-based research. The framework proposed brings together three different lenses: first, transformative learning as an approach to experiential pedagogy with focus on education and learning based in local communities and the surrounding places; second, experiencing place through sense-making to help people relate closely to their values and meanings of place; third, regenerative action to reverse and recuperate from the negative impact of humans on the environment and promote place stewardship. Through a dynamic combination of these processes, new socially innovative agency is created. Empirical examples of this agency have been captured in this paper from a series of projects which were part of the SUSPLACE programme. In conclusion, we associate the interactive nature of this agency with sustainable re-learning, re-experiencing, and re-generation processes to reshape places in a transformative way.
Transformative roles of people and places: learning, experiencing, and regenerative action through social innovation
Sustain Sci
Mehmood, Abid (author) / Marsden, Terry (author) / Taherzadeh, Alice (author) / Axinte, Lorena F. (author) / Rebelo, Cátia (author)
Sustainability Science ; 15 ; 455-466
2020-03-01
12 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Social innovation , Regenerative development , Transformative learning , Visual narratives , Sustainable place-shaping Environment , Environmental Management , Climate Change Management and Policy , Environmental Economics , Landscape Ecology , Sustainable Development , Public Health , Earth and Environmental Science
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