Major innovations in Seoul start with daily small steps
Supporting the innovative efforts of citizens at promoting sharing and sustainability
Let us, for now, understand social innovation as the puzzling pro- cess of looking for small and diverse signs pointing toward a more hopeful future with effort. We embark upon this process with the belief that it will ultimately improve our lives and change the world for the better. This is the understanding of social innovation that underlies the SMG’s emphasis on it as a reservoir of solutions to the difficult problems facing citizens in Seoul. Could social innovation really rescue people from despair and give them new windows of hope? Could innovation in daily living lead to social innovation? Could social innovation bring out and mobilize the energy of citi- zens and lead to revolutionary changes? Social innovation may not be a magic wand that fixes every social problem, but couldn’t it at least work as a guide for people trying to find their way in this in- creasingly complex and uncertain world? This book marks an effort to look for answers to these questions. — Introduction
Contents :
CHAPTER 1 Social Innovation: How Citizens Transform Their Lives
CHAPTER 2 Experiments of Social Innovation Changing Citizens’ Lives
CHAPTER 3 Landmark of Social Innovation: Seoul Innovation Park
CHAPTER 4 Change of Hearts, Change of the City