Inclusive Places – SUSPLACE

Main objective of this research theme is to analyse how conditions can be created for people’s participation and engagement in sustainable place-shaping, contributing to self-efficacy, social innovation and social cohesion within varied contexts on different scales. Inclusive Places focuses on the ‘human factor’, how people appreciate and value places, express agency and take responsibility in sustainable places and how they reflect on and negotiate the conditions of engagement in global processes.

News

New publication: Exploring the narratives from eco‑villagers through a place‑based transformative learning approach by Pisters et al.

New publication: Linking spatial planning and place branding strategies through cultural narratives in places by Grenni et al.

New publication: The inner dimension of sustainability transformation: how sense of place and values can support sustainable place-shaping, by Sara Grenni et al..

New publication! Place-based transformative learning: a framework to explore consciousness in sustainability initiatives by Siri Pisters et al.

Investigating togetherness in a more-than-human society: taking some SUSPLACE lessons to the University of Lapland

Lead: Prof. Hilkka Vihinen