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- Argento, Daniela, et al.
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Citizen participation in climate smart urban development : Part 1
- 2022
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report presents the first results of our engagement in the research project Climate-Smart Näsby. Our involvement from January to December 2021 was two-fold: first, it entailed identifying potential stakeholders in the urban sustainable development of Näsby, the northern part of the city of Kristianstad (Sweden); second, it entailed outlining citizen engagement possibilities for the project. The report highlights our reflections and lessons learned through literature review, document analysis, photo walks, interviews and workshops. After presenting the challenges cities face in their attempts to become more sustainable, the report emphasizes the importance of increased stakeholder engagement in sustainable city development projects. The report also illustrates some techniques for identifying and analyzing stakeholders and typical tools used to engage them. It discusses how the choice of method when studying citizens, and their engagement, can be a power factor leading to distanced view of citizens. It also highlights how understanding citizen engagement can be blurred due to different interpretations of what democracy means. The report presents a tentative stakeholder map for the project in the form of a power-interest grid. Reflections on photo walks/interviews with citizens are presented in concise and diverse forms that invite to interpretation, understanding and experience of being there.
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- Argento, Daniela, et al.
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Citizen participation in climate smart urban development : Part 2
- 2023
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report presents the fnal results of our engagement in the research project Climate-Smart Näsby. Our involvement from January to December 2022 was aimed to explore how the Municipality of Kristianstad (Sweden) engages with citizens in urban planning related initiatives and identify different forms of participation possibilities. The results of such exploration led to the recognition of both the value and the diffculties of establishing fruitful forms of dialogue. One diffculty is engaging citizens at the early stages of an urban (re)building process, especially when sustainability concerns are at stake. In addition, it is diffcult to ensure that citizens remain anchored to the whole process, which usually takes a long time to be completed. The risk is that participation and dialogue remain fragmented over time, with different citizens being active in different stages of an urban planning process. This report presents a tentative model that facilitates the creation of platforms for site specifc active citizen dialogue (In Swedish: platsbunden aktiv opinions-bildning) to alleviate identifed diffculties. A selection of vignettes and photos, resulting from our feldwork and displayed in various exhibitions, is included in the report to give the reader a sense of the studied site (Näsby, Kristianstad) and the citizens living there.
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- Argento, Daniela, et al.
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Facing Climate Change Challenges through Sustainable City Co-creation
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- To alleviate problems generated by climate change, cities cannot act alone but need to collaborate with multiple stakeholders including industry, non-profit sector, academia and, not the least, citizens whose behavior can make an impact on the territory. The aim of this paper is to enlighten how the city can engage stakeholders – especially citizens – in decision making processes of sustainable urban development. While organizations can have financial or other interests to engage with sustainable urban development which entails (re)building processes able to affect the mobility and livability of cities, citizens might not see an immediate need to participate in the making and re-making of the city, neglecting their potential contribution to intergenerational equity. While rebuilding cities, it becomes paramount to think of how it can become an attractive place where people want to live, work and visit. City managers and decision makers seek ways to enable citizens’ attachment to the sustainable development plans at stake. Pursuing sustainable development requires the management of financial constraints as well as considerations of environmental and social issues. By adopting a case study approach with empirical focus on the Näsby district of Kristianstad City (Scania Region, South of Sweden), we investigate how a mid-sized city experiments with citizen engagement initiatives in the spirit of co-creation. The results show that simultaneously pursuing attractiveness and attachment, what we call attra-chment, requires both regulated and spontaneous initiatives to foster continued co-creation
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- De Kaminski, Marcin, et al.
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Studying Norms and Social Change in a Digital Age: Identifying and Understanding a Multidimensional Gap Problem
- 2013
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Ingår i: Social and Legal Norms: Towards a Socio-legal Understanding of Normativity. - 9781409453437 ; , s. 309-330
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The fact that the debate concerning copyright in a digital society has been both intense and filled with polemic conflicts ever since the late 1990s makes it clear that it is a most complicated issue to solve, or even grasp. Basically, both the legal and societal discussion and development are explicitly dependent on a greater understanding of the on-going processes surrounding copyright. This presents a well-suited point of departure for research such as the one conducted within the Cybernorms research group – both in terms of providing valuable insights into the field of sociology of law when it comes to understanding how to relate to the framework provided by digitalization in general and the Internet in particular, and in terms of providing more accurate knowledge and toolsets to legislators in related fields.
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- De Kaminsky, Marcin, et al.
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Studying norms and social change in a digital age : identifying and understanding a multidimensional gap problem
- 2013
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Ingår i: Social and legal norms. - : Ashgate. - 9781409453437 - 9781409453444 ; , s. 309-330
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The fact that the debate concerning copyright in a digital society has been both intense and filled with polemic conflicts ever since the late 1990s makes it clear that it is a most complicated issue to solve, or even grasp. Basically, both the legal and societal discussion and development are explicitly dependent on a greater understanding of the on-going processes surrounding copyright. This presents a well-suited point of departure for research such as the one conducted within the Cybernorms research group – both in terms of providing valuable insights into the field of sociology of law when it comes to understanding how to relate to the framework provided by digitalization in general and the Internet in particular, and in terms of providing more accurate knowledge and toolsets to legislators in related fields
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- Dittrich, Yvonne, et al.
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Co-Operative Method Development revisited
- 2005
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the last five years, we applied a research approach we call 'Co-operative Method Development' formulated on first experience with empirical research focusing especially on the social side of software engineering. This position paper summarizes the experiences and discusses the improvement and further development of this research approach based on our experiences in different research projects in co-operation with industrial partners.
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- Dittrich, Yvonne, et al.
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Cooperative method development : Combining qualitative empirical research with method, techniqueand process improvement
- 2008
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Ingår i: Empirical Software Engineering. - : Springer Netherlands. - 1382-3256 .- 1573-7616. ; 13:3, s. 231-260
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The development of methods tools and process improvements is best to be based on the understanding of the development practice to be supported. Qualitative research has been proposed as a method for understanding the social and cooperative aspects of software development. However, qualitative research is not easily combined with the improvement orientation of an engineering discipline. During the last 6 years, we have applied an approach we call ‘cooperative method development’, which combines qualitative social science fieldwork, with problem-oriented method, technique and process improvement. The action research based approach focusing on shop floor software development practices allows an understanding of how contextual contingencies influence the deployment and applicability of methods, processes and techniques. This article summarizes the experiences and discusses the further development of this approach based on several research projects in cooperation with industrial partners.
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