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Current social innovation initiatives towards societal transformations bring forward new ways of doing and organizing, but new ways of knowing as well. Their efforts towards realizing those are important sites for the investigation of contemporary tensions of expertise. The promotion of new, transformative ways of knowing typically involves a large bandwidth of claims to expertise. The attendant contestation is unfolded through the exemplar case of the Basic Income in which the historically evolved forms of academic political advocacy are increasingly accompanied by a new wave of activism. Crowd-funding initiatives, internet activists, citizen labs, petitions and referenda seek to realize the BI through different claims to expertise than previous attempts. Observing both the tensions between diverse claims to expertise and the overall co-production process through which the Basic Income is realized, this contribution concludes with reflections on the politics of expertise involved in transformative social innovation.

Current social innovation initiatives towards societal transformations bring forward new ways of doingand organizing, but new ways of knowing as well. Their efforts towards realizing those are importantsites for the investigation of contemporary tensions of expertise. The promotion of new, transformativeways of knowing typically involves a large bandwidth of claims to expertise. The attendant contestationis unfolded through the exemplar case of the Basic Income, in which the historically evolved forms ofacademic political advocacy are increasingly accompanied by a new wave of activism. Crowd-fundinginitiatives, internet activists, citizen labs, petitions and referenda seek to realize the BI through differentclaims to expertise than previous attempts. Observing both the tensions between diverse claimsto expertise and the overall co-production process through which the Basic Income is realized, thiscontribution concludes with reflections on the politics of expertise involved in transformative socialinnovation. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published

Reducing residential energy use and carbon dioxide emissions is a policy concern across Europe. One of the approaches to address this problem, real-world laboratories (RwLs), has recently gained prominence as a means to generate both sustainability change and social knowledge. Yet RwLs are context-bound, and transferability is an issue for scaling up change. Drawing on Realistic Evaluation (RE) and Theories of Change (ToC), this paper analyses researchers' and practitioners' views on the role of contexts and change mechanisms in the outcomes of interventions targeting residential energy use. The results show that extracting the underlying logic of RwL designs could help to identify where and when these designs are likely to be transferrable. This contribution has implications for the design of future RwLs, given that RwLs have until now rarely articulated their ToC. ; Peer reviewed

Frontmatter --Inhalt --Einleitung --I. Kooperative Technikgestaltung mit Bürgerinnen und Nutzerinnen --Zur Wissenspolitik von Smart-Grid-Experimenten --Algorithmen erklärt Euch! --Digitalisierung und Verkehrswende --Es ist Zeit für bessere Ideen --II. Soziotechnische Imaginationen und Kräfteverhältnisse --Schöne neue Bauwelt? --»Die Benutzer sind das Problem, nicht das System« --Digitale Energiezukünfte und ihre Wirkungsmacht --Human-Machine Learning und Digital Commons --III. Soziodigitale Neukonfiguration von Politik und Öffentlichkeit --Codes, Strategien, Verhalten --Öffentliche Kommunikation in der digitalisierten Gesellschaft --Reallabore --Bericht aus der Praxis --Verzeichnis der Autorinnen und Autoren

[Abstract] This working paper presents the TRANSIT open-access online database on Critical Turning Points (CTP) in Transformative Social Innovation. It specifies the contents of the database, comprising qualitative accounts of more than 450 'critical' episodes in the evolution of social innovation initiatives in 27 different countries. Providing the theoretical-methodological context to these data, the paper also describes the theoretical background of the CTP concept and the methodology though which the CTP accounts have been reconstructed through interviews with members of SI initiatives. The paper concludes with reflections on the open access CTP database as a knowledge infrastructure, discussing its significance in terms of mapping, dissemination and framing of social innovation. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 613169