Part 1: Social Innovation and Co-design – mapping the territory

1. Social Innovation as Context

1.1 The stories of social innovation

1.2 Tensions

2. Co-design as Innovation

2.1 User as subject and user as partner

2.2 Dimensions of co-design

2.3 Connecting co-design and social innovation

3. Taking Co-design Seriously

3.1 The challenge

Part 2: An Integrating Proposition

4. Actors and Structure

4.1 Actor-network theory

4.2 The question of structure and constraint

4.3 Machiavelli and Prometheus

5. Reflexivity and Evaluation

5.1 Applying theories of change

5.2 Mutual learning

6. Impact, Governance and Ethics

6.1 Making an impact

6.2 From project to framework

6.3 The ambiguous role of the designer

Part 3: Implications and Questions

7. Organizations and Networks

7.1 The Community of practice

8 A Social Innovation Community?

8.1 Collective Impact

8.2 The social innovation community: researchers and practitioners together?

Dr Garth Britton is Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia.