Organising for Co-Production: Local Interaction Platforms for Urban Sustainability

Perry, Beth; Patel, Zarina; Bretzer, Ylva Norén; Polk, Merritt

doi:10.17645/pag.v6i1.1228

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“…Perry et al (2018) caution that there has been "insufficient critical examination of the presumed 'neutrality' or 'safeness' of new boundary spaces", and suggest this as a future research agenda. Dean (2018) proposes exploration of how collaborative and agonistic practices may be combined in governance, and under what conditions difference forms may be more appropriate.…”

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Coproducing Urban Governance

Richardson

Durose

Perry

2018

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There are many critiques of existing forms of urban governance as not fit for purpose. However, what alternatives might look like is equally contested. Coproduction is proposed as a response to address complex wicked issues. Achieving coproduction is a highly complex and daunting task. Bottom up approaches to the initiation of coproduced governance are seen as fruitful, including exemplification of utopian alternatives though local practices. New ways of seeing the role of conflict in participation are needed, including ways to institutionalise agonistic participatory practices. Coproduction in governance drives demands for forms of knowledge production that are themselves coproductive. New urban governing spaces need to be coproduced through participative transformation requiring experimentation and innovation in re-designing urban knowledge architectures. Future research in this field is proposed which is nuanced, grounded in explicit weightings of different democratic values, and which mediates between recognition of contingency and the ability to undertake comparative analysis.

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Coproducing Urban Governance

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Perry

2018

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“…It has developed workshops that support peer learning for people working on co-produced research, a transdisciplinary research school and a handbook, alongside an evaluation methodology for co-production that considers both the quality of the processes and the outcomes achieved 8 . This international centre focuses on how cities and settled areas can grow sustainably, and is led by a consortium of local authorities and academics in Sweden, with partners in South Africa, Kenya and the United Kingdom 9 .…”

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Durose¹,

Richardson²,

Perry³

2018

Nature

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“…Considerable effort has been devoted to learning about the experiences using 9. See reference 1, mistra Urban Futures (2015); also see reference 7, Palmer and Walasek (2016); and reference 7, Perry et al (2018).…”

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The challenges of transdisciplinary knowledge production: from unilocal to comparative research

Simon¹,

Palmer²,

Riise³

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Environment and Urbanization

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This reflective paper surveys the lessons learnt and challenges faced by the Mistra Urban Futures (MUF) research centre and its research platforms in Sweden, the UK, South Africa and Kenya in developing and deploying different forms of transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge. Considerable experience with a distinctive portfolio of such methods has been gained and reflective evaluation is now under way. While it is important to understand the local context within which each method has evolved, we seek to explain the potential for adaptation in diverse contexts so that such knowledge co-production methods can be more widely utilized. Furthermore, the current phase of MUF's work is undertaking innovative comparative transdisciplinary co-production research across its research platforms. Since the specific local projects differ, systematic thematic comparison requires great care and methodological rigour. Transdisciplinary co-production is inherently complex, time consuming and often unpredictable in terms of outcomes, and these challenges are intensified when it is undertaken comparatively. Keywords comparative urban research / co-production / Mistra Urban Futures / transdisciplinarity / transdisciplinary urban co-production I. InTroducTIon: From unIlocAl To compArATIve TrAnsdIscIplInAry co-producTIon oF Knowledge Co-production (also known as co-creation or co-design (1)) as an approach has evolved since the 1980s. The objective has been to bring different stakeholder groups together in an attempt to overcome often-longstanding antagonisms and wide asymmetries of power by working or researching together to improve outcomes, whether of services or research, and their legitimacy. (2) Essentially, the many modes of co-production constitute more sustained and coherent forms of the diverse participatory research and consultation methods developed to engage with local communities, research subjects, or the intended beneficiaries of development or service investments. There is no clear boundary between co-production and participation-when the intention is to increase diverse stakeholders' power. Indeed, for instance, participatory budgeting, of the kind initiated in Porto Alegre (Brazil) and subsequently applied in diverse cities, (3) has many attributes of co-production. david simon is director of mistra urban Futures and professor of development geography, royal Holloway, university of london.

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Organising for Co-Production: Local Interaction Platforms for Urban Sustainability

Cited by 33 publications

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Coproducing Urban Governance

Coproducing Urban Governance

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The challenges of transdisciplinary knowledge production: from unilocal to comparative research

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