During a 2-day academic workshop at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, 25 scholars from across the world gathered to discuss the role of ‘game-changers’ in transformative social innovation processes, from the perspective of various inter-disciplines and world regions. This workshop was part of the research project TRANsformative Social Innovation Theory (TRANSIT), which seeks to theorise the dynamics of transformative social innovation, understood as the process through which social innovations contribute to societal transformation.The focus of this synthesis workshop has been on unpacking and discussing – both theoretically and empirically – the ‘game-changers’ of our times (inter alia climate change, resource depletion, economic crises, increasing inequality) and to explore how these game-changers relate to different forms of social innovation and transformation. The workshop consisted of discussions around 10 papers that were presentated. The papers were distributed beforehand to allow for in-depth discussion. At the end of the workshop, participants were challenged to discuss the practice of transformative social innovation, across four cross-cutting themes: governance, social learning, monitoring and resourcing. This document provides a synthesis of main workshop insights and points of contestation (p. 3-5). Further, it describes some highlights of the presentations and discussions (pp. 6-10), and a summary of the working group discussions on governance, social learning, monitoring and resourcing (p. 11). [Extracted from document's introduction].
Avelino, F., Wittmayer, J. and Kirner, B. (2014) Workshop report : synthesis workshop : the role of Game-changers in Transformative Social Innovation [Synthesis workshop : Rotterdam, 01-02 September, 2014], Rotterdam, Transformative Social Innovation Theory (TRANSIT).
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