This document discusses how cities can become innovation platforms and outlines a framework for designing impact. It proposes that cities transition from closed organizations to open civic platforms that engage citizens. The framework suggests three levels of impact: incremental, evolutionary, and revolutionary/transformative. Incremental focuses on problem solving and client interests, while evolutionary combines creativity and societal concerns. Transformative change requires imagination and overlapping interests among all groups. The document argues for moving from short-term reactive approaches to long-term proactive practices that transform organizations and cultures.
15. CLAIM THE FUTURE
From single solutions to wicked problems
PROBLEMS FORCED THINKING
Taipei, WDC Cities 2016
16. The Art of Innovation &
The Ladders of Impact
From short term reactive mode
to long term proactive practice
H1
Problem Solving
H2
Creativity
H3
Imagination
Known problem
Known solution
Doing what you
are doing, better
Known problem
Unknown solution
Doing what you are
doing but in a
fundamentally
different way
Unknown problem
Unknown solution
Changing the very
essence of the
organization and
the culture
From designing the
usual to the design
of unusual
Incremental
IMPROVE
Evolutionary
CHANGE
Revolutionary
TRANSFORM
17. DESIGN FOR IMPACT
From innovation to transformation
DOING GOOD WITH DESIGN
Helsinki, Jani Tolin 2016
19. “The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams.”
-‐Eleanor Roosevelt
Helsinki, Jani Tolin 2016
anne.stenros@hel.fi
@CasaAnna