Ingrid Mulder, Alberto Magni 
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Issue N. 52, Spring 2022
An increasing number of social innovators are leveraging cities as urban learning ecosystems in order to experiment with design approaches to tackle societal challenges at a local level. However, the scale and complexity of these challenges force them to constantly acquire new capabilities to advance the local experimentation towards systemic change. We introduce co-design as a transformative community-driven design method to facilitate innovators to continuously identify, connect, co-define, and share with other peers their learning journeys to build capacity over time for addressing societal challenges. The current article elaborates upon a capacity-building framework that not only resulted in elaborate training activities for urban transformations, but also fostered a community of practice that was instrumental to self-sustain a learning network. Results highlight the importance of developing a collaborative learning infrastructure capable of expanding the pool of societal actors contributing to the further diffusion and co-creation of knowledge for urban transformations.
Keywords: Capacity building, Co-design, Collaborative learning, Learning ecosystem, Reflection, Self-development, Urban innovators, Urban transformations
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Mulder I., Magni A.: A collaborative learning infrastructure to build capacity for urban transformations, Interaction Design & Architecture(s) – IxD&A Journal, N.52, 2021, pp. 119–140, DOI: https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-052-007
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