Boer, Laurens

Sproedt, Henrik

The key element in participatory innovation is to understand innovation as asocial problem solving process between different stakeholders. The socialdynamics amongst stakeholders are fundamental to the participatory processand outcome, and it’s therefore beneficial for facilitators and stakeholdersthemselves to understand their relations and what it means to participate. Weargue that we can grasp these social dynamics of participatory innovationthrough play. From a management perspective we study how playing gameshelps us to understand these dynamics, while from an interaction designperspective we study how a game that addresses these dynamics can bedesigned. We describe a case of a game, designed for the ParticipatoryInnovation Conference of 2011 in Sønderborg, Denmark. The game wasparticularly designed around the themes of conflict and interdependence,captured by the dilemma of co-opetition where individual and group goals areconflicting. Drawing on observations and video data of the game being playedby the participants of the conference, we study how different groupcompositions deal with novelty. From here we explain how the process of playcan help to grasp the social dynamics of participatory innovation, and outlinedesign strategies to do this

Grasping social dynamics of participatory innovation:A case of playing a game

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