Book Social Innovations in the Urban Context (Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies) CATTACIN, Sandro Abstract This book addresses the practice of social innovation, which is currently very much in the public eye. New ideas and approaches are needed to tackle the severe and wicked problems with which contemporary societies are struggling. Especially in times of economic crisis, social innovation is regarded as one of the crucial elements needed to move forward. Our knowledge of its dynamics has significantly progressed, thanks to an abundance of studies on social innovation both general and sector-specific. However, despite the valuable research conducted over the past years, the systematic analysis of social innovation is still contested and incomplete. The questions asked in the book will be the following: 1. What is the nature of social innovations? 2.What patterns can be identified in social innovations emerging at the local level? 3.How is the emergence and spread of social innovations related to urban governance? More precisely, which conditions and arrangements facilitate and hinders social innovation? We explore these questions using different types of data and methods, and studying different contexts. In particular, we [...] Reference CATTACIN, Sandro. Social Innovations in the Urban Context (Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies). 1st ed. 2016. Springer, 2016, 313 Available at: http://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:88556 Disclaimer: layout of this document may differ from the published version. 1 / 1 Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies An International Multidisciplinary Series Series Editors Paul Dekker Institute for Social Research, The Hague, The Netherlands Annette Zimmer University of Münster, Münster, Germany More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6339 Taco Brandsen • Sandro Cattacin • Adalbert Evers Annette Zimmer Editors Social Innovations in the Urban Context Editors Taco Brandsen Adalbert Evers Radboud University Nijmegen Justus-Liebig University Nijmegen Giessen The Netherlands Germany Sandro Cattacin Annette Zimmer University of Geneva University of Münster Geneva Münster Switzerland Germany ISSN 1568-2579 Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies ISBN 978-3-319-21550-1 ISBN 978-3-319-21551-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21551-8 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2015960892 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Acknowledgements We thank Jenny Eschweiler and Rocio Nogales for their invaluable help in editing this book. v Contents Part 1 Introduction 1 Social Innovation: A Sympathetic and Critical Interpretation ............ 3 Taco Brandsen, Adalbert Evers, Sandro Cattacin and Annette Zimmer Part II Urban Contexts for Local Innovations 2 Urban Governance and Social Innovations ........................................... 21 Sandro Cattacin and Annette Zimmer 3 Everybody on Board? Opportunity Structures for Social Innovations in Münster ........................................................................... 45 Christina Rentzsch 4 Inertia, Clearings, and Innovations in Malmö ...................................... 65 Ola Segnestam Larsson, Marie Nordfeldt and Anna Carrigan 5 Birmingham, Priority to Economics, Social Innovation at the Margins .......................................................................................... 83 Nadia Brookes, Jeremy Kendall and Lavinia Mitton 6 Social Policies and Governance in Geneva: What About Social Innovation? .................................................................................... 97 Patricia Naegeli 7 Milan: A City Lost in the Transition from the Growth Machine Paradigm Towards a Social Innovation Approach ............... 125 Giuliana Costa, Roberta Cucca and Rossana Torri 8 Poor but Sexy? Berlin as a Context for Social Innovation ................... 143 Benjamin Ewert vii viii Contents Part III Local Social Innovations 9 Social Innovations as Messages: Democratic Experimentation in Local Welfare Systems ........................................... 161 Adalbert Evers and Taco Brandsen 10 Warsaw: Paving New Ways for Participation of Mothers, Fathers, and Children in Local Public and Social Life— The MaMa Foundation ............................................................................ 181 Renata Siemieńska, Anna Domaradzka and Ilona Matysiak 11 Zagreb: Parents in Action—Innovative Ways of Support and Policies for Children, Women and Families ................................... 189 Gojko Bežovan, Jelena Matančević and Danijel Baturina 12 Amsterdam: Neighbourhood Stores for Education, Research, and Talent Development—The BOOT Project ...................................... 199 Francesca Broersma, Taco Brandsen and Joost Fledderus 13 Lille Metropolis: Co-production of Housing in a Major Urban Renewal District ........................................................ 205 Laurent Fraisse 14 Pamplona: Neighbourhood Children Services— A Grassroots and Local Council Initiative ............................................ 213 Manuel Aguilar Hendrickson and Marta Llobet Estany 15 Berlin: Kreuzberg Acts—Entrepreneurship in the District ................. 219 Benjamin Ewert and Adalbert Evers 16 Milan: “We Help You to Help Yourself”— The Project of the Fondazione Welfare Ambrosiano ............................ 227 Stefania Sabatinelli and Giuliana Costa 17 Stockholm: Innovative Ways of Supporting Children of Single (Lone) Mothers ......................................................................... 235 Marie Nordfeldt, Ola Segnestam Larsson and Anna Carrigan 18 Nijmegen: Work Corporations—for the Unemployed, by the Unemployed .................................................................................. 243 Joost Fledderus, Taco Brandsen and Francesca Broersma 19 Birmingham: The Youth Employment and Enterprise Rehearsal Project ..................................................................................... 251 Nadia Brookes, Jeremy Kendall and Lavinia Mitton Contents ix 20 Birmingham: A “Locality Approach” to Combating Worklessness .................................................................... 257 Nadia Brookes, Jeremy Kendall and Lavinia Mitton 21 Münster: How Prevention Visits Improve Local Child Protection ............................................................................. 265 Andrea Walter and Danielle Gluns 22 Barcelona: A Citizen’s Agreement for an Inclusive City ...................... 273 Teresa Montagut, Gemma Vilà and Sebastià Riutort 23 Bern: Integration Guidelines ������������������������������������������������������������������ 281 Maxime Felder Part IV Conclusions 24 The Implicit Normative Assumptions of Social Innovation Research: Embracing the Dark Side ...................................................... 293 Ola Segnestam Larsson and Taco Brandsen 25 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Social Innovation ������������������������� 303 Taco Brandsen, Adalbert Evers, Sandro Cattacin and Annette Zimmer Index ................................................................................................................ 311 Contributors Danijel Baturina Institute for Social Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Gojko Bežovan Institute for Social Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Taco Brandsen Department of Political Science & Public Administration, Institute of