Abstract
This research seeks to develop a step change to the way housing is designed for cities in the UK. Housing demand in cities is predicted to increase. Urban centres are struggling to provide affordable housing. Moreover, cities are wasteful in terms of resource consumption, and waste generation heavily affecting the environment. The circular economy offers new ways to design, make and use houses to address these issues systemically as long as technical innovation is combined with social innovation. To date, the circular economy has mainly focused on technical innovation with limited emphasis on user social practices and behaviours. The combination of technological and social innovations through design has just appeared in emerging research and practice areas of design for sustainability. So, approaches that support the design of integrated solutions for transforming large socio-technical systems like cities are not yet well-established. To contribute to the development of integrated approaches for implementing a circular economy in urban housing, this study reviews a set of existing cases of social innovation for regenerative and restorative urban systems. Through empirical observation, we seek to integrate existing theories and concepts on circular economy and formulate theoretical insights for promoting the development of social-technical innovations.
Highlights
More than half of us live in urban areas, and by 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities
This analysis has observed that most of the selected social innovation initiatives for a circular economy in cities consist of new organizational forms or platforms or new business models
These cases have shown that a circular economy is implemented in urban systems by social initiatives mainly promoted by groups of people or aimed at linking people for building groups
Summary
More than half of us live in urban areas, and by 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. Approaches that focus on the development of integrated technological and social innovations for transforming large socio-technical systems [5] are not yet established This exploration aims to distil theoretical insights based on empirical observations from a broad empirical sampling of contemporary social innovations for regenerative and restorative urban systems. Products Services Processes Market s Platforms Organizational forms Business models Non-profit Public Private Informal Buildings Mobility Goods Food Water Energy Green infrastructure Circular design New business models Reverse cycles Enablers & favorable system conditions Regenerate Share Optimize Loop Virtualize Exchange
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