Festiva solutions’ contributions towards urban circularity transtitions – Analyzed through deepening, broadening, and scaling-up in the context of the Green Deal Circular Festivals.
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2023-12-07
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Practitioners and academics agree that festivals are a great place to test innovations, and on their similarities to cities and urban systems. Many circular solutions are emerging from this industry, in response to growing societal pressure and to their huge socioenvironmental impacts. This thesis explores how the sector can contribute to urban circularity transitions, by framing circular solutions from festivals as transition experiments and analyzing how they scale-up to cities. Using interviews with practitioners and Semilla Sanitation as a concrete example, it applies van den Bosch and Rotmans’ “Deepening, Broadening and Scaling up Framework for Steering Transition Experiments” (2008) and innovation systems analysis to analyze how scaling-up processes have taken place in the context of the Green Deal Circular Festivals (GDCF).
Internal and external characteristics for scalability are defined, the main actors and their roles are identified, highlighting the role of municipalities as launching customers of solutions. The thesis proposes a blueprint for how to apply the frameworks presented to advance other sorts of transitions experiments in urban environments. The findings advance the link between cities and the events sector, and they can be generalized to different kinds of industries in the wider urban context, further advancing urban circularity transitions.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen