Astrid Krisch

• Dr
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Oxford

The Wellbeing Economy has emerged as an alternative development approach that focuses on human and ecological wellbeing instead of material growth, but its implementation, particularly at the local level, remains underexplored. This paper argues that Democratic Innovations as specific forms of Transformative Social Innovations can help operationali...

This article draws on different strands of existing scholarship to provide an analytical framework for understanding the barriers to achieving a well-being economy. It explores the interplay between agential and structural power, where some actor-coalitions can reproduce or transform pre-existing structures. Conversely, these structures are strateg...

Experimentation is key for accelerating local transformations. Experimentation discourse, however, is often biased towards technology. We introduce the notion of socially innovative experiments (SIX) and their contribution to transformative local development as a counterbalance. We conceptualize SIX in local development and study over 100 SIX in Au...

Experiments are heralded as beacons of hope for transformative change. But how effective can ephemeral micro-interventions be in achieving comprehensive structural change? This question is particularly relevant for non-technological experiments that are typically more place-bound than their technology-oriented counterparts. We argue that non-techno...

This technical summary provides an overview of the main statements of the APCC SR Structures for Climate-Friendly Living chapters. Based on scientific literature, the report assesses different approaches for transforming structures in order to make climate-friendly living in Austria possible and make it permanently and quickly the new status quo.

Background The climate crisis constitutes the largest threat to public health in the 21st century. Against this background co -beneficial measures for climate mitigation and health promotion can offer the opportunity for necessary transformative change, especially in terms of active mobility, sustainable food systems and spatial planning. Vulnerabl...

Zusammenfassung The technical summary is aimed at a professional audience and summarizes the most important findings of the report, but without going into all the details. Each chapter is summarized on approximately two pages. For the relevant statements, an evaluation with regard to agreement and literature basis is given. In contrast to the summa...

Zusammenfassung The Summary for Policy Makers presents the main results in condensed form. The summary is the result of an internal coordination process and is therefore supported by all coordinating lead authors. For each statement, the relevant chapters and the correspondence and scope of the literature are indicated. Details on the statements ca...

Zusammenfassung Ziel des Teils ist die umfassende Diskussion von Strukturen in Österreich, die ein klimafreundliches Leben fördern oder behindern bzw. für den Aufbau klimafreundlicher Strukturen als relevant erachtet werden. Strukturen, die beispielsweise im Recht, im politischen System, in der Wirtschaft oder der Raumordnung verankert sind, wirken...

Zusammenfassung Die Zusammenfassung für Entscheidungstragende gibt die wesentlichen Ergebnisse in verdichteter Form wieder. Die Zusammenfassung ist das Ergebnis eines internen Abstimmungsprozess und wird daher von allen koordinierenden Leitautor_innen mitgetragen. Bei jeder Aussage sind die relevanten Kapiteln und die Übereinstimmung und der Umfang...

Zusammenfassung Die technische Zusammenfassung richtet sich an das Fachpublikum und fasst die wichtigsten Ergebnisse des Berichtes zusammen, ohne aber alle Details auszuführen. Jedes Kapitel wird auf ungefähr zwei Seiten zusammengefasst. Hierbei wird bei den relevanten Aussagen eine Bewertung mit Hinblick auf Übereinstimmung und Literaturbasis ange...

The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists...

Dieses Kapitel bewertet die Literatur zu netzgebundenen Infrastruktursystemen, wie Strom-, Daten-, Straßen- oder Schienennetze, Wasser- oder Gasleitungen, und ihren Beitrag für die Transformation zu einer klimafreundlichen Lebensweise in Österreich. Netzgebundene Infrastrukturen bilden zentrale Grundlagen für alltägliches Leben und Wirtschaften (Eu...

In der vorliegenden technischen Zusammenfassung werden die wesentlichen Aussagen der Kapitel des APCC SR Strukturen für ein klimafreundliches Leben zusammengefasst. Der Bericht bewertet auf Basis wissenschaftlicher Literatur unterschiedliche Ansätze zur Transformation von Strukturen, damit klimafreundliches Leben in Österreich dauerhaft möglich und...

Thus far, living in a climate-friendly way in Austria is difficult. In most areas of life, from work and housing to nutrition, mobility and leisure activities, existing structures promote climate-harmful behaviour and make climate-friendly living difficult (high agreement, strong literature base). {chap 3-9} The present report confirms the relevanc...

The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists...

Critical scholars dealing with platform capitalism, platform urbanism and smart city developments have emphasized manifold challenges connected to the rise of digital platforms and in particular the “Tech Titans”. Due to their economic and political power, platforms are by now often understood as new forms of infrastructures, thus making them an in...

Digitale Infrastrukturen sind zentraler Bestandteil sowohl der wissenschaftlichen Debatte als auch unseres Alltagslebens geworden. Von Daten, über Plattformen als neue Infrastrukturen bis hin zu Debatten rund um Smart Cities sind meist digitale Infrastrukturen im Zentrum des Erkenntnisinteresses. Der vorliegende Beitrag geht den Fragen nach, 1) wel...

This paper investigates planning and development processes of networked infrastructure systems from an institutional perspective. It applies theories of ASID (agency, structure, institutions, and discourse) and dis-cursive institutionalism to unveil simplistic structure-agency imaginaries of infrastructure planning. The concept of discursive instit...

Culture and planning have often been connected through issues of culture-led urban development and regeneration or cultural and creative industries. However, cultural provision as a form of social infrastructure has rarely been used to understand the institutionalization of culture within planning practices. I claim that how culture is institutiona...

Internet platforms like Google, Amazon or Facebook substantially shape our everyday lives. With their coordinated products, they create their own socio-technical ecosystems and act as gatekeepers that set and control rules. Their economic dominance is increasingly being addressed by competition authorities in Europe. Contrary to how they are often...

In our globalised, interconnected and increasingly competitive world, the importance of public space is often highlighted. This article aims at connecting the concept of public space to the concept of social infrastructure to point to the underlying and indispensable nature of public space. It builds on the assumption that public space is the physi...

Die vorliegende Literaturstudie verfolgt zwei wesentliche Ziele: Zum einen wird die steigende Unternehmens­macht von Internet-Plattformen sowie deren Auswirkungen problematisiert. Zum anderen werden die bisherigen Vorschläge zur Regulierung ebenfalls systematisch erfasst und soweit möglich theoriegeleitet eingeordnet. Dabei wird unterstellt, dass d...

Die Gestaltung der Wasserver- und Abwasserentsorgung ist in den letzten Jahren in unterschiedlichen Kontexten (z.B. europäische BürgerInneninitiative „right2water“, EUKonzessionsrichtlinie, Freihandelsabkommmen wie CETA, Revision der Trinkwasser-Richtlinie) immer wieder heftig diskutiert worden. Vor diesem Hintergrund hat die vorliegende Untersuchu...