Session Information
15 SES 06, The Power of Design in Open Innovation: Transforming Knowledge in Institutional Cooperation and Partnerships
Symposium
Contribution
Network theoretical approaches often follow Giddens’ (1997) structurational theory approach and Windeler (2001) presents a „structuration-theoretical network approach“, which is compatible to the praxis-theoretical perspective of Pierre Bourdieu (1993). How network actors bring about structures of action coordination practically is a research question to address. The interplay of specific (practical) bodies of knowledge and action patterns are to be understood as societal fights for representation (Schwarz & Weber 2012) and power, where as well discursive knowledge-sets come into play (Weber 2014). So can institutional heterogeneity within open innovation cooperations and partnerships be overcome by aesthetical transformational strategies? Design-based strategies of change are all based on the Agora, the marketplace of the Attic democracy (Weber 2005, pp.81). Aiming at the dialogic activation of the entire system, aesthetical transformation is the mode and the goal. How can those approaches intend to overcome institutional and professional inequalities? Based on the analytical perspective of power and knowledge analysis, the paper discusses approaches of aesthetic transformation as “rituals of transformation” and their “empowering” quality to address, subvert or overcome institutional heterogeneity in institutional networks.
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