An Integrated Transformative Process Model for Social Innovation in Cities

Due to the demographic and climate changes cities are identified as key players challenged to ensure both quality of life and the capability of continuous societal change. To adequately address these challenges, cities are increasingly in need of new governance instruments to deal with the dynamics and turbulences that come with the necessary transformation. We propose a transformative process approach based on the transformative capacity framework (TCF, Wolfram 2016) and linked with the process model based on co-creation and network governance (Wilhelmer, Wagner 2015). The resulting integrated model provides a procedural framework for transforming existing urban governance routines into more adaptive and resilient practices which better answer societal challenges.