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A Multilevel Perspective for Social Innovation: Three Exemplary Case Studies in Collaborative Communities Toward Sustainability

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Social innovation research involves new ways of doing, organizing and seeking relationship-based collaboration in community so that it enhances the community resilience to adapt to environmental changes, and generate social and economic synergies dealing with unsustainable crises. In this paper, the authors draw on the MLP (Miltilevel Perspective) framework and focus on 3 cases to illustrate the characteristics of a sustainable society, and summarize the value advocacy of social innovation from the perspective of values in usage level, infrastructure level and governance level.

Through the case studies, the authors put forward the conceptual design supports social innovation. Understanding the social innovation from a cultural perspective is a human spirit and a culture of survival for the vulnerable. More importantly, a deep cultural structure needs to be found to support these marginalized networks (Design for social Innovation and Sustainability networks), to practice the solidarity economy. In Chinese Zen culture, such a kind of value proposition is advocated, and those who live in inferior positions can have the state of mind of living in heaven. Design is not just a practice of making things, it is a practice of changing the way designers and others think about a subject. Imagining, planning, and producing both material and immaterial things are expressions of these views. This paper revisits the definition of ‘design’ beyond a question of form and function and place the role of ‘citizen-designer’ in the front and center of society, where they drive the aestheticization of infrastructures and generate scenario-based designs following bottom-up needs of a community.

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  1. College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

    Jing Wang

  2. Hangzhou College of Childhood Teachers’ Education Zhejiang Normal University, Zhejia, China

    Yunyun Weng

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Independent University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Mohammad Shidujaman

  4. School of Business, University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg, Norway

    Salah Uddin Ahmed

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Wang, J., Weng, Y., Shidujaman, M., Ahmed, S.U. (2023). A Multilevel Perspective for Social Innovation: Three Exemplary Case Studies in Collaborative Communities Toward Sustainability. In: Kurosu, M., Hashizume, A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14014. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35572-1_25

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