From Cultural Branding to Cultural Empowerment through Social Innovation: I Was a Sari—A Design-Driven Indian Case Study

Bertola, Paola; Colombi, Chiara; Iannilli, Valeria Maria; Vacca, Federica

doi:10.1080/17569370.2020.1769354

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“…, 2018), a fantasy-laden attachment to legal structures as a source of stability, balance and the resolution of tension (Kenny et al. , 2020), potential “greenwashing” in the fashion industry (Bertola et al. , 2020), “regulatory hacking” designed to influence local policy (Sharp, 2018) or through the suppression and understatement of those tensions in narrations of the social-entrepreneurial self (Jones et al.…”

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“…Works that took a critical or analytical approach to social innovation storytelling tended to argue that stories and narratives around social entrepreneurship contain attitudes, beliefs and assumptions that are largely unconscious. These function to gloss over or obfuscate the tensions and contradictions inherent in social entrepreneurship, whether through the power of totalising grand narratives (Dey and Steyaert, 2010;Teasdale et al, 2020), through possible narrative misconduct by dominant players (Hazenberg et al, 2018), a fantasy-laden attachment to legal structures as a source of stability, balance and the resolution of tension (Kenny et al, 2020), potential "greenwashing" in the fashion industry (Bertola et al, 2020), "regulatory hacking" designed to influence local policy (Sharp, 2018) or through the Social enterprise and social innovation suppression and understatement of those tensions in narrations of the social-entrepreneurial self (Jones et al, 2008). This theme of the unconscious motivations, beliefs and attitudes motivating social entrepreneurship is also present in Jones et al's (2008) exploration of the unstated and understated narrative components of social entrepreneurial identity, which they argue are indicative of the avoidance or suppression of important issues and tensions.…”

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Exploring the role of narrative in social enterprise and social innovation

Meissner,

McNeill,

Allen

2024

SEJ

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Purpose This paper aims to examine how the fields of social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and social innovation have theorised and applied the concepts of narrative and storytelling. Design/methodology/approach A literature review and subsequent thematic analysis were used. A keyword search of three databases identified 93 relevant articles that were subsequently reviewed for this paper. Findings Four main roles for storytelling and narrative were found in the literature: to gain support for social innovation, to inspire social change, to build a social-entrepreneurial identity and to debate the meaning and direction of social innovation itself. Practical implications Following the literature review, capacities and applications of storytelling and narrative in other, related fields are discussed to highlight practical use cases of storytelling that might currently be underdeveloped in the social enterprise and innovation sectors. Originality/value The paper argues that the social innovation and enterprise literature predominantly views storytelling as a form of mass communication, while often overlooking its ability to foster communal debate and organise intrapersonal dialogue as possible aspects of strategic thinking and innovation management in social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and social innovation.

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Section: Social Enterprise and Social Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the role of narrative in social enterprise and social innovation

Meissner,

McNeill,

Allen

2024

SEJ

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“…Others take a much narrower view of the term, focusing very explicitly on overcoming oppression, exploitation, social exclusion and poverty in both the Global South and Global North. They think about the empowerment of disadvantaged groups in society by promoting their education, confidence and skills at the intersection of people living in poverty, indigenous people, women, people of colour, people with disabilities and so on [52][53][54][55][56]. These approaches are about more than just changing social relations into more collaborative and participatory forms.…”

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Socially Innovative Initiatives in Deprived Rural Areas of Germany, Ireland and Portugal: Exploring Empowerment and Impact on Community Development

Christmann,

Sept,

Richter

2024

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In many (remote) rural areas of Europe and the world, rural communities are facing various challenges. One response is residents leaving their communities. However, there are also many empirical examples of residents staying, launching project initiatives, developing new solutions and experimenting with new practices. This is what we call social innovation. What experiences do actors have in these processes? Can we speak of empowerment? To what extent can such initiatives have an impact on community development? In this article, we explore these questions, for which there is little related empirical research. By applying a multi-sited individualising comparison to case studies in three European countries (Germany, Ireland and Portugal), we obtain empirical evidence of the following dimensions of empowerment that Avelino et al. outline conceptually: the achievement of autonomy, competence and relatedness and also impact, meaning and resilience. Often, however, it is not the individual actors for whom such effects can be reported. Rather, the social initiative as such or the local administration has acquired new skills and autonomy. Regarding community development, ‘pathways to impact’, such as infrastructure improvements and/or the creation of new employment opportunities and/or the influx of new residents, could be identified. However, this development often depended on both opportunity and the cooperation and goodwill of many stakeholders.

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“…To conclude, this DDI type is adapted mainly to serve the tourism-oriented creative cities rich in local cultural heritage but experiencing moderate economic growth to leverage 'incremental improvement' in urban development [47,48]. It emphasises design as an innovation tool, integrating cross-disciplinary resources to conduct cultural research and participate collaboratively in the design process, to together create cultural artefacts that foster cultural consumption [17,49,50]. With such design tools, a meaning and value cocreation pathway is built up, which facilitates cultural inheritance and innovation while meeting SDGs related to sustainable culture inclusivity [51][52][53].…”

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Design-Driven Innovation in Urban Context—Exploring the Sustainable Development of City Design Weeks

Han,

Wu,

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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As the imperative of sustainable development of cities has gained heightened attention within the global creative and cultural industries in the last decade, among all the relevant trials and practices, city design weeks are becoming a notable method offering diverse possibilities for the innovative approaches the cities could apply to their development. Therefore, the objective of the research is to understand how city design weeks facilitate urban sustainable development and how design-driven innovation is implemented in such a context. Employing a qualitative methodology, the study conducts a case study across 30 global design weeks, selected through a cross-validated process with the World Design Weeks global network and UNESCO City of Design network. Grounded in the design-driven innovation perspective, valid data from 2017 to 2022 is gathered in response to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) primarily through extensive interviews, official project reports, and media communication materials. The data are further cross-analysed by adapting the Creative Cities Index into 10 indicators suitable for the context of design weeks. Among the research findings, three types of design-driven models emerge for the innovation practice of city design weeks: metropolitan integrative transformation and innovation, inclusive cultural diversity communion and innovation, and cluster incorporation and collaborative innovation. In this way, the study provides both the practical significance in terms of supporting the design week organisation by implementing suitable approaches to drive the city’s sustainable development and the theoretical significance in extending the possible adaptation of a design-driven innovation model for the urban development context. Furthermore, the limitation of this qualitative study opens avenues for future quantitative impact analyses on individual design weeks, providing applicable evaluation methods to iteratively inspect and refine the models over time, which complement the limitations of the current qualitative research.

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From Cultural Branding to Cultural Empowerment through Social Innovation: I Was a Sari—A Design-Driven Indian Case Study

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

Exploring the role of narrative in social enterprise and social innovation

Exploring the role of narrative in social enterprise and social innovation

Socially Innovative Initiatives in Deprived Rural Areas of Germany, Ireland and Portugal: Exploring Empowerment and Impact on Community Development

Design-Driven Innovation in Urban Context—Exploring the Sustainable Development of City Design Weeks

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