in situ social innovation in France
Innovation used to be linked to technology for the last half century, an R&D territory. But in companies, innovation finally reached every aspect of it’s organization, strategy, branding… and is now seen as a tool for change in new areas. One of its application is in the social domain, where this idea started almost 40 years ago.
Friends from the 27è région, ”lab of new public politics at the numeric age”, launched a program called “territories in residences” where creative labs of designers, researchers, ethnologues… are going to work in immersion.
Studying the future of school? Improving public services? A bottom-up, user centred and co-creation approach in situ that you can follow on http://territoiresenresidences.wordpress.com/ (in french).
Have a look at the wiki definition of social innovation
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