Using collaborative hackathons to coproduce knowledge on local climate adaptation governance

Kvamsås, Hanna; Neby, Simon; Haarstad, Håvard; Stiller-Reeve, Mathew; Schrage, Jesse

doi:10.1016/j.crsust.2020.100023

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“…In their book, Kohne and Wehmeier [39] narrated the origin of hackathons as pure software development meetings for developers to create software on their respective platforms. Since then, it has evolved into several forms, and various organizations host hackathons for different reasons: technology companies to promote their products, governments to build technologies for social good, institutions to accelerate scientific discoveries, and schools to empower their students [28,42,43,77]. As it originated outside academia, research is still scarce on hosting hackathons within the education field.…”

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Hackathons as extracurricular activities: Unraveling the motivational orientation behind student participation

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2022

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The education sector is constantly progressing its competency paradigm by establishing a nexus between practical, theoretical, and technical dimensions of teaching and learning. In the modern age of education, hackathons are becoming increasingly prominent in providing an optimal academic environment that connects classroom learnings to real‐life scenarios. This study explored the motivational orientation behind student participation in hackathons through the framework provided by self‐determination theory. Specifically, it investigated the role of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations in encouraging initial and continuous hackathon participation. The partial least squares‐structural equation modeling method was used to analyze data collected from 437 students in 12 countries. According to the findings, although intrinsic motivation influences participation intention, extrinsic motivation drives continuance participation. When intrinsic and extrinsic motivational constructs were analyzed individually, it was found that continuance participation demands both motivational orientations. Comparisons of demographic characteristics indicate that older students with more extensive educational experience may have higher intentions to participate and continue participating in these events. This study offers insights into how the education sector can increase hackathon participation by tapping on students’ motivational orientation. From a methodological point of view, it is apparent to recommend the promotion of hackathons as a core extracurricular activity at a school level, and more indispensably, as pedagogy at a classroom level. In a world where students are encouraged to fail early, fast, and often, participating in hackathons is a tactical preparation for eventual success.

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Hackathons as extracurricular activities: Unraveling the motivational orientation behind student participation

Garcia

2022

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“…Here the Commission emphasizes experimental approaches for innovation and continuous learning, institutional spaces for cross-sectoral dialogue, collaboration and public participation. As interventions are moved out of the domain of technical expertise to become issues of governance (Kvamsås, 2021;Kvamsås et al, 2021), it appears that some decision-makers are opening up different types of participation processes to attempt to improve transparency and legitimacy, gather information, stimulate creativity around the design of solutions, and foster social inclusivity (Puskás et al, 2021).…”

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From instrumentalization to commoning: A critical review of participation in urban nature-based solutions

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Haarstad

2022

Front. Sustain. Cities

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Nature-based solutions (NBS) are becoming a widely recognized approach to urban sustainability. Most of the literature and policy handbooks on the topic emphasize the importance of participation in some form but interpretations and levels of commitment vary. While the mainstream discourse often presents NBS as a set of win-win solutions for urban sustainability, there is a tendency to romanticize both nature and participatory planning processes in the institutional language and practices of NBS. In this paper, we review critical perspectives on the mainstream NBS discourse. Then we bring scholarship concerning the relationship between cities, nature and social change into conversation with scholarship on commoning, to outline an approach for rethinking the democratic and transformative potential of NBS. In this approach, we argue for moving beyond the instrumentalization of nature inherent to mainstream NBS, and locate, within diverse strands of theory, perspectives that contribute to a vision of commoning as a frame for ecological spaces in cities. We contrast the tendency for instrumentalization and enclosure of NBS and urban space to the opportunities opened by the commoning approach, particularly in terms of equality of access, public and shared resources, and distribution of benefits.

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“…to design practical and strategic solutions to the challenges of planning and implementing climate adaptation at the local level" (Kolstad et al, 2019(Kolstad et al, , p. 1424). As we write, the Bergen Klimathon has been held twice, as comprehensive "live" events, gathering 73 participants in 2018 and 98 participants in 2019 for two full days (Kvamsås et al, 2021). Many of those involved in the development and implementation of the Klimathons, a group of local practitioners and researchers, cowrote an essay that might be seen as the Klimathon "origin story" titled "Trails, Errors, and Improvements in Co-production of Climate Services" (Kolstad et al, 2019), with the introductory statement-"An honest reflection on experiences in a climate service project is provided, with concrete recommendations on how to put ideas of co-production into practice" (Kolstad et al, 2019, p. 1).…”

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“…The Klimathon developed from several years of cooperation between climate researchers and local municipalities and county administrators in different research and climate service projects 2 focusing on local climate adaptation in and around Bergen, with a "co-production" ambition (Kvamsås and Stiller-Reeve, 2018, Kolstad et al, 2019, Neby, 2020, Kvamsås et al, 2021. A recurrent experience and discussion concerned the challenges of communication and different problem framings, and a lack of understanding of each other's worlds (Kvamsås and Stiller-Reeve, 2018;Kolstad et al, 2019;Neby, 2020;Kvamsås et al, 2021). The Klimathon was an effort to create a new format and forum for dialogue, to address some of these challenges so that future processes for co-producing climate services for adaptation might run more smoothly.…”

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“…The Klimathon was an effort to create a new format and forum for dialogue, to address some of these challenges so that future processes for co-producing climate services for adaptation might run more smoothly. It is also a research method in itself, producing knowledge on local climate adaptation governance (Kvamsås et al, 2021). The main focus of the Klimathon is not to produce a climate service product like a scientific report or a concrete solution to a problem, though these are anticipated spin-offs.…”

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Quality Assessment in Co-developing Climate Services in Norway and the Netherlands

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Wardekker²,

Jensen³

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Front. Clim.

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Climate services, and research on climate services, have mutually developed over the past 20 years, with quality assessment a central issue for orienting both practitioners and researchers. However, quality assessment is becoming more complex as the field evolves, the range and types of climate services expands, and there is an increasing appeal to co-production of climate services. Scholars describe climate services as emerging from complex knowledge systems, where information moves through institutions and actors attribute various qualities to these services. Seeing climate services' qualities as derived from and activated in knowledge systems, we argue for comprehensive assessment conducted with an extended peer community of actors from the system; co-evaluation. Drawing inspiration from Knowledge Quality Assessment and post-normal science traditions, we develop the Co-QA assessment framework; a checklist-based framework for the co-creation of criteria to assess the quality of climate services. The Co-QA framework is a deliberation support tool for critical dialogue on the quality of climate services within a co-construction collective. It provides a novel, structured, and comprehensive way to engage an extended peer community in the process of quality assessment of climate services. We demonstrate how we tested the Co-QA—through interviews, focus groups and desktop research—in two co-production processes of innovative climate services; an ex post evaluation of the “Klimathon” in Bergen, Norway, and an ex ante evaluation for designing place-based climate services in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. These cases reveal the challenges of assessing climate services in complex knowledge systems, where many concerns cannot be captured in straight-forward metrics. And they show the utility of the Co-QA in facilitating co-evaluation.

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Using collaborative hackathons to coproduce knowledge on local climate adaptation governance

Cited by 7 publications

References 45 publications

Hackathons as extracurricular activities: Unraveling the motivational orientation behind student participation

Hackathons as extracurricular activities: Unraveling the motivational orientation behind student participation

From instrumentalization to commoning: A critical review of participation in urban nature-based solutions

Quality Assessment in Co-developing Climate Services in Norway and the Netherlands

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