Wie entfalten Reallabore Wirkung für die Transformation? Eine embedded-agency perspective zur Analyse von Wirkmechanismen in Reallaboren

Autor(en)
Karoline Augenstein, Paula Maria Bögel, Meike Levin-Keitel, Helena Trenks
Abstrakt

The central concern of real-world lab research is the inter- and transdisciplinary generation of socially robust transformation knowledge. Despite the fact that real-world labs explore and study fundamental mechanisms of change, there are few approaches that deal with this question from a systematic, theoretical and methodological perspective. Concrete real-world lab projects should be able to live up to their claim as a central research mode, supporting sustainability transformations. Thus, approaches are required that foster a broader understanding of mechanisms of change in real-world labs. We find promising approaches that describe mechanisms of change along discipline-specific analytical and empirical scales. Key challenges are to develop analytical frameworks that integrate such approaches from different disciplines, and to identify mechanisms of change in a systematic and comprehensive way. In this article we present an embedded-agency perspective for analysing mechanisms of change in real-world labs and discuss the methodological implications. With the help of this analytical framework, real-world lab processes can be designed in such a way that relevant data is collected and transformative impacts can be assessed.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
Externe Organisation(en)
Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Universität Vechta, Technische Universität Dortmund, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Journal
GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
Band
31
Seiten
207-214
Anzahl der Seiten
8
ISSN
0940-5550
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.31.4.4
Publikationsdatum
2022
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
507012 Raumordnung
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/7203b18d-4239-4188-bcb3-42218dd982ef