Jizhen Shan and Yunlong Wang
With the advancement of technology and globalisation, the way people interact and socialise has changed dramatically. This phenomenon has affected the behaviour of real people interacting with each other and their social skills and challenged the cohesion and sense of belonging in offline communities. The sense of value plays an important role in the construction of community relationships. It involves community members identifying and sharing common moral, ethical, and faith values and a shared understanding of the community’s mission and vision. In order to maintain community cohesion and communion, we need to value cultural diversity, encourage face-to-face interaction, and find models of community development that are adapted to the new economic and digital environment and promote localised social innovation, which will help foster connections and collaboration between people in offline communities and create stronger and more vibrant community networks.
Starting from value entanglement, this study aims to explore community participation and social innovation under value entanglement, focusing on human participation and community co-creation and adopting the concept of social innovation to promote the development of sustainable communities. In this paper, some specific strategies and methods are proposed, such as a collaborative point system that encourages community members’ participation and reflects individual surplus value, as well as the conceptual design of a community app in conjunction with the cases of “Time banking” and “Digua Community”. The findings of this study suggest that the development of sustainable communities can be promoted through community participation and social innovation under value entanglement, and it is hoped that the findings of this study can provide some assistance to practitioners, policymakers, and researchers.
KEYWORDS: value entanglement, community, localised social innovation, participatory design, sustainable development
RSD TOPIC(S): Cases & Practice, Policy & Governance, Society & Culture