Creatively transforming periphery? Artists’ initiatives, social innovation, and responsibility for place

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ID21363855
AutoresKarin Coenen (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume77
Fascículo1
Páginas47-61
Data de publicação2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNorsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0029-1951 • E-ISSN: 1502-5292
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00291951.2023.2169193
OpenAlexW4320917990
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas50

Creativity and geography have received little attention in the literature on responsible innovation. To address these shortcomings, the article places responsible innovation explicitly in a territorial and non-technocentric context by exploring how artist-led social innovation takes ‘responsibility for place’. The article is guided by the following research question: How can artist initiatives shape sustainable regional development in peripheral areas? To address this research question, the author draws on a conceptualization of artist-led social innovation processes geared to ‘deperipheralization’ that is applied to study two initiatives – Ifö Center in Bromölla, Sweden, and Rjukan Solarpunk Academy, in Rjukan, Norway – situated in peripheral old industrial towns. The study reveals a variety of ways by which artists can be agents of change that transform places but at the same time take responsibility for inclusion and participation. The author concludes that through social innovation, artists' initiatives can empower local citizens and other actors to experiment collectively with unconventional ideas related to social and environmental sustainability and take responsibility for place. The social innovations studied have enacted responsibility for development objectives that are intrinsically significant due to an ethos of care in both a temporal sense (care for future) and a spatial sense (care for place)

Conceptualization · Context (archaeology) · Corporate social responsibility · Creativity · Environmental ethics · Ethos · Geography · Political science · Public relations · Sense of place · Situated · Social responsibility · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development