REKONZIL - Reflection and design of innovation processes in cluster projects to develop sustainable technologies for mobility (Project no. 19B9923A)
Overview
Background & policy context:
Transport problems in urban areas became an important policy area. Politicians start many initiatives that aim at solving the relationship between city and transport. A special challenge is to develop approaches in this field where stakeholders after all seem to hold incompatible positions. Isolated approaches that aim at optimizing individual systems or tools for transport management will consequently fail. How is moderating the diverse stakeholders, positions and ideas supposed to work and foster innovations or lead to the exploitation of potential room for maneuvers?
Objectives:
The project REKONZIL deals with the question whether mobility policies and especially the cooperation between different players can be shaped so that innovative and sustainable approaches develop. For illustrative purposes we deal with the project networks MOBINET (Munich) and WAYflow (Rhine-Main area), which are part of the research program “Mobilität in Ballungsräumen” (mobility in urban areas) of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
These two project networks aim at tackling transport problems in an innovative way and are composed of partners that are public authorities and also private organizations. Special is the respective diverse constellation of companies, service providers, research institutes, consultants, transport operators and public authorities. This diverse mix of players should not only enable the development but also the implementation of innovative approaches. Both research projects are very complex. Integrative solutions are desired that links the sub-projects also with external approaches.
Methodology:
For us the term “heteroplexity” is a phenomenom that has not been considered sufficiently yet. It is new in terms of the conditions developed during the lead projects. Literature does not really consider it. We investigate in three different directions in an experimental way. This is not a presentation of “canned knowledge”:
- The first step includes programmatic and conceptional changes in transport
policies und based on this a new reflexive behavior pattern called
“heteroplexity”. As mentioned, it has not fully been developed but based on the
emperic material obtained, it could be characterized ideal-typically.
- The second step dealt with developing a theoretical framework enabling the
analysis of heteroplex project contexts
- The third step was about formulating recommended actions in terms of how
under heteroplex conditions, innovations to large, heteroplex and complex
project scenarios are possible and can be supported.
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