Kollektiv meningsdannelse iblandt heterogene aktører i eksperimentelle samskabelsesprocesser

This PhD study investigates how heterogeneous actors collectively create new meaning through framing processes when translating new ideas in experimental co-creation processes.
Heterogeneous actors increasingly join forces to solve complex challenges in experimental co-creation processes. However, there is uncertainty as to whether multi-stakeholder co-creation processes are working as intended. Different professional and cultural backgrounds can make it difficult for actors to collaborate and create meaning together. Research tends to focus normatively on improving co-creation processes, rather than conducting more critical analyzes of the processes that take place within them and their consequences.
This PhD study examines how heterogeneous actors collectively create meaning within co-creation processes. The focus of the study is the sense-making processes that take place when actors develop new urban solutions in staged co-creation processes. The study specifically examines sense-making processes in a co-creation process that unfolds in an experimental tension between institutional distance and anchoring, which characterizes new types of co-creation processes with ambitions to involve heterogeneous actors in developing alternative solutions that can be implemented in specific empirical contexts. The study is based on a staged field experiment, consisting of nine workshops, in which heterogeneous urban actors develop an alternative solution to solve the challenge of empty square meters in city centers, caused by increased e-commerce etc.
To shed light on how heterogeneous actors collectively create meaning within this co-creation process, and the institutional complexity in which it unfolds, this study draws on concepts from Scandinavian institutionalism, translation theory, framing theory, and literature on experimental spaces.