Dear Colleagues,
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<br>We are pleased to invite submissions for our open panel *157. Situating
<br>Co-creation: Innovation between Local Specificity and Scalable
<br>Standardization* at EASST/4S in Prague, August 2020.
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<br>*Panel description:*
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<br>Co-creative practices, bringing together diverse actors in the innovation
<br>process to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes, seem to be flourishing across
<br>academia, industry and society. Prospective users are increasingly engaged
<br>upstream, invoking the fundamental value-proposition of co-creation, namely to
<br>tailor innovation processes to the needs, values, and political cultures of
<br>user-communities with the hope that these will lead to more legitimate and
<br>sustainable outcomes. However, co-creation faces challenges such as the
<br>scalability of context-specific solutions as well as the definition of the
<br>user-community problems to address or the imagined user-communities as such.
<br>In this panel, we are interested in exploring the situated nature of
<br>co-creation by looking at the particular shape it takes in specific social,
<br>cultural and institutional contexts. We invite contributions that address
<br>questions such as:
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<br>- How do conceptualizations of 'the local' shape innovation processes and
<br>outcomes?
<br>- How can situatedness be theorized in the context of co-creative innovation
<br>practice?
<br>- If effective and desirable innovations are context-specific, how can we
<br>harness their benefits for other settings without losing their socio-cultural
<br>embeddedness?
<br>- When and how could co-creation be standardized and scaled-up? Are there
<br>specific domains or fields where context matters less than in others and where
<br>co-creation can be homogenized and deployed at scale?
<br>- How are co-creation practices stabilized in specific contexts and when are
<br>these exercises deemed fit to travel towards other socio-cultural contexts
<br>and/or technological domains?
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<br>*Session organizers:* Anja K. Ruess (Technical University of Munich); Federica
<br>Pepponi (Technical University of Munich); Kyriaki Papageorgiou (ESADE Business
<br>& Law School); Ruth Mller (Technical University of Munich); Benjamin Lipp
<br>(Technical University of Munich); Carlos Cuevas Garcia (Technical University
<br>of Munich)
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<br>*Contact:* Anja K. Ruess (anja.ruess@tum.de)
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<br>If interested, please submit your paper via the conference website
<br>https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/. The deadline for abstract submissions is
<br>February 29th 2020. Don't hesitate to contact us if you have questions.
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<br>All the best,
<br>Anja, Federica, Kyriaki, Ruth, Benjamin and Carlos
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