Creative Work and Social Innovation : The Case of Innovating in an Open-Air Museum
Andersson, Malin LU
(2024)
p.46-61
- Abstract
The public management of urban space is an everyday practice that requires development. But how is creative work done in a public context? The idea of offering outdoor offices and outdoor conferences is being implemented in an open-air museum, owned by a middle-sized city in Sweden. This chapter focuses on their ambitions to be innovative, and the practices officials engage in, to innovate. The ethnographic material comprises interviews texts and observations. The study draws on theory on social innovation practice and on sociologist Hartmut Rosa’s concept resonance, forming an analysis of a municipality’s innovation practices as responses to change. The study finds that innovation work is presented as a more efficient use of existing... (More)
The public management of urban space is an everyday practice that requires development. But how is creative work done in a public context? The idea of offering outdoor offices and outdoor conferences is being implemented in an open-air museum, owned by a middle-sized city in Sweden. This chapter focuses on their ambitions to be innovative, and the practices officials engage in, to innovate. The ethnographic material comprises interviews texts and observations. The study draws on theory on social innovation practice and on sociologist Hartmut Rosa’s concept resonance, forming an analysis of a municipality’s innovation practices as responses to change. The study finds that innovation work is presented as a more efficient use of existing resources, while it promises improved work health for the public. One conclusion is that innovation work requires communicating a culture of courage. The explored case shows the different ways in which outdoor offices and conferences are expected to create efficiency and health experiences as new potential values, proposed for citizens and visitors in the innovation practices. Doing social innovation, based on the case of outdoor offices and conferences and the concept of resonance, constitutes a response to new societal norms, such as the free choice of office workplace and place independence.
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- author
- Andersson, Malin
LU
- organization
- alternative title
- Kreativt arbete i offentlig styrning: : innovation i ett friluftsmuseum
- publishing date
- 2024-01-01
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- social innovation, public management, creativity
- host publication
- Creative Work : Conditions, Contexts and Practices - Conditions, Contexts and Practices
- editor
- Andersson Cederholm, Erika ; Lindqvist, Katja ; Warkander, Philip and de Wit Sandström, Ida
- pages
- 16 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85195773727
- scopus:85195773727
- ISBN
- 9781003855538
- 9781032509792
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003402688-5
- project
- The meeting industry of the future: business models, interactions and hospitality in the age of digitalisation
- CROCUS Kulturens rum och kreativitetens villkor
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 1deb7d2a-e685-4ced-b2b5-eb2c6636bb84
- date added to LUP
- 2022-05-31 08:24:13
- date last changed
- 2025-03-11 10:15:02
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