Mgr. Tomáš Vácha

Social and organizational lerning in urban experiments

Responsible person

Mgr. Tomáš Vácha

Responsible team

Mgr. Tomáš Vácha, JUDr. PhDr. Jiří Plos

department

15119 Department of Urban Design

duration of the project

2021-2022

Annotation

The research will focus on the potential of pilot projects (urban experiments) to support the organizational and social learning of the actors involved and the ability to capture and mediate this learning. The project will evaluate several selected projects with regard to how the individual experience of the actors involved and the official outputs of the project differ and to what extent the projects were of practical benefit to the involved cities The aim of the project is to map the experiences of actors of urban innovation projects that used pilot projects and urban experimenters. Emphasis is placed on how these projects support organizational learning within the organizations involved what role they can play in understanding the organizational, procedural and social aspects of urban innovations. The research is a partial part of the research carried out within the dissertation work of Tomáš Vácha under the guidance of Jiří Plos, which also includes an analysis of the Czech experience with pilot projects. The project will help gain a valuable overview of the effectiveness and good and bad practices in the use of urban experiments and support their effective use in the future. An additional goal is to support the ongoing cooperation with the University of Manchester and to develop a common research topic "Process learning" - process learning is a concept that we are currently developing in collaboration with the team of Prof. James Evans and which focuses on the description of the learning process through direct or indirect involvement in an urban experiment with an emphasis on gaining knowledge about the processes and organizational changes associated with the process of innovation in a particular area of how the city works.

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