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. 2023 Feb 11;10(1):5. doi: 10.1186/s40410-022-00187-w

Table 3.

Illustrative example: scaling deep

General impact determinants Comprehensive enabling factors Initiative-based learning Interactions across system levels Transformative effects
Resulting from scaling-deep dynamics
Case-specific enabling factors
Resulting through the observation of one/more initiatives in one context
Identification of key scaling mechanisms
Knowledge and abilities Facilitating experience exchange

• Local fora development to ease experience exchange among practitioners working in urban regeneration

• Feedback about ongoing activities is exchanged within neighbourhood associations

Scaling deep

Creation/birth of constellations of practices implementing learning experiments (mainly regime driven)

Key interactions: Regime drives, supports, enables niches; niches activate experiments with very low involvement of regime; niches challenge the regime

• Local rooting of new practices and related values

• Local learning through experiments on influencing culture, practices and structures

• Widened constellation ecosystem

• Local learning through experiments on influencing culture, practices and structures

• New culture, practices and structures’ potential shown to regimes

Supporting shared reflection

• Citizens involved in the development of the initiative(s) discuss the importance of cultural actions in relation to local identity issues

• Citizens involved in the development of the initiative(s) discuss about their expectations for the future of the neighbourhood

Norms and regulations Rooting in norms and regulations from the impact domains • Cultural operators participate in co-design experiments seeking to support policy making
Narratives and discourses Aligning with discourses emerging in the impact domain • In line with well-being-oriented approaches to urban planning, cultural operators launch activities to promote active lifestyle
Resources and infrastructures Activation of dedicated working groups • Practitioners from the cultural sector collaborate with local institutions
Access and activation of spaces and infrastructures

• Underused urban spaces are activated

• Private venues are made available for public exhibitions

Networks and partnerships Emergence and consolidation of collaborative schemes • Cultural operators collaborate with local schools for the re-activation of neighbourhood spaces
Involvement of co-beneficiaries • Culture-led projects targeting e.g., urban regeneration directly involve vulnerable target groups