The creativity of social innovation : a complex systems framework for social systems intervention
department or school: Creative and Critical Studies, Faculty of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Unrau, Mike
issued: 2022-12-31T08:00:00Z
issued: 2021
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This manuscript-style dissertation assists to fill the gap in the social innovation literature of social intervention methods that account for worldview bias and the nonlinear dynamical processes of social systems innovation. I investigate a critical consciousness approach to worldview bias and link the result to a nonlinear dynamical approach to creativity in systems transformation so that social innovators may uncover novel transitions in systems dynamics and generate creative solution spaces for beneficial change. The dissertation results in a transdisciplinary theoretical framework for “systemic-dynamic creativity” and four publishable manuscripts on key topics that help guide changemakers in an internal and external reflexive process on social innovation. In the first manuscript I investigate an “internal” approach to Freire’s critical consciousness and how it relates to a complex systems approach to creative consciousness. I show that by making novel distinctions between static and dynamic worldviews, social innovators may become mindfully aware and transform internal bias. In the next manuscript, I move to an “external” approach and examine nonlinear dynamical systems theory to identify the “birthplace” of creativity as it arises applies to multiple systems. I produce a novelty assessment that can aid changemakers in finding “transition points” for systemic innovation, and offer four preconditions to novelty to leverage such points in a Meadows-like intervention toward systemic change. In the third manuscript, I take this nonlinear understanding, apply it to social systems, and find that Schumpeter’s “creative destruction” resembles entropic processes of disordering also found in collective worldviews. I show that the oppositional “negentropic” processes may transform social complexities toward the ordering of creative solutions. Such “internal” and “external” approaches to social change are then synthesized in the fourth manuscript, where I build upon other …
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note: THE CREATIVITY OF SOCIAL INNOVATION: A COMPLEX SYSTEMS FRAMEWORK FOR SOCIAL SYSTEMS INTERVENTION by Mike Unrau A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Interdisciplinary Studies) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) December 2021 © Mike Unrau, 2021 ii COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a dissertation entitled: The Creativity of Social Innovation: A Complex Systems Framework for Social Systems Intervention submitted by Mike Unrau in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies. Dr. Ashok Mathur, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies . Co-Supervisor Dr. Greg Gerrard, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies . Co-Supervisor Dr. John Graham, School of Social Work . Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Mike Evans, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences . University Examiner Dr. Dan McCarthy, University of Waterloo . External Examiner Additional Committee Members include: Dr. Darcy Riddell . Supervisory Committee Member August 3rd, 2021 . (Date) iii ABSTRACT This manuscript-style dissertation assists to fill the gap in the social innovation literature of social intervention methods that account for worldview bias and the nonlinear dynamical processes of social systems innovation. I investigate a critical consciousness approach to worldview bias and link the result to a nonlinear dynamical approach to creativity in systems transformation so that social innovators may uncover novel transitions in systems dynamics and generate creative solution spaces for beneficial change. The dissertation results in a transdisciplinary theoretical framework for “systemic-dynamic creativity” and four publishable manuscripts on key topics that help guide changemakers in an internal and external reflexive pro…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2022-02
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0406084
language: eng
degree discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Mathur, Ashok, 1961-
contributor: Garrard, Greg
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/80469