ABSTRACT

The embedding and promotion of social change is faced with a paradoxical challenge. In order to mainstream an approach to social change such as responsible research and innovation (RRI) and make it into a practical reality rather than an abstract ideal, we need to have conceptual clarity and empirical evidence. But, in order to be able to gather empirical evidence, we have to presuppose that the approach already exists in practice. This paper proposes a social lab methodology that is suited to deal with this circularity. The methodology combines the defining features of social labs emerging from the literature such as agility and real-world focus with established theories and approaches such as action research and experiential learning. Thereby it enables the parallel investigation and propagation of RRI. The framework thus constructed provides a theoretical embedding of social labs and overcomes some of the known limitations of the constitutive approaches.

摘要

嵌入和促进社会变革面临着自相矛盾的挑战。为了使诸如负责任的研究与创新（RRI）之类的社会变革方法成为主流，并使之成为现实而不是抽象的理想，我们需要概念清晰和经验证据。但是，为了能够收集经验证据，我们必须假定该方法已经在实践中存在。本文提出了一种适合于处理这种循环性的社会实验室方法。该方法论结合了从文献中涌现出来的社会实验室的定义特征，例如敏捷性和现实世界关注点，以及既定的理论和方法，例如行动研究和体验式学习。因此，它可以并行研究和传播RRI。