Lehrende/r: Prof. Dr. Petra Ahrweiler
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: S Techniksoziologie
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 6,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: Zielgruppe:
Inhalt: This course is about social innovation, i.e. about changing the ways in which we organise our societal routines by applying new knowledge for better solutions. The first part of the course will introduce to the area of social innovation using examples from social policy, especially social service innovation. Students will discuss a range of empirical case studies to see how new knowledge, new actors and new networks innovate the social service domain in Europe. The course will especially look into the ways, knowledge about improving organisational structures is introduced, presented and represented in the innovation networks of social service provision. The second part of the course consists of a practical exercise. Students will look into a complex issue of current social innovation: changes of mobility concepts in big cities such as Mainz due to environmental issues of air pollution, demographic change, volatile poverty distributions and other developments. Again, it will be central how new knowledge is created and used to address these challenges. In this part of the course, a conceptual innovation model about Mainz city innovation with a focus on mobility will be developed.
