![Infography with quote "The real is neither limited to empirically observable nor actually existing phenomena, but constitutes the underlying, non-observable mechanisms that can cause events in the world too. [...] Knowing them is decisive for effective transformative agency."](https://si4sdhome.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/si4sd_quote32_en_real-as-potential_novy-02.jpg?w=700)
Andreas Novy in “Social innovation as political transformation” (2020, p. 115)
Erik Béatse in the Leuven Gymkhana Closure Event (2021)
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Andreas Novy in “Social Innovation as Political Transformation” (2020, p. 114)
“Participation cannot be equated with democracy. By staging division and making visible that something important is at stake, citizens are challenged to take sides and participate in the conversation.”
Anneleen Kenis & Matthias Lievens (2017, p. 1773)
“It’s the critics that drive improvement, they say “We can do this better”, they are the true optimists”.
Jarol Lanier, in J. Orlowski (2020) “The Social Dilemma”
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader”
John Quincy Adams in P.Gosling & L.D. Noordam (2001) “Mastering your PhD”
“Every point in history is a crossroads. A single travelled road leads from the past to the present, but myriad paths fork off into the future. Some of those paths are wider, smoother and better marked, and are thus more likely to be taken, but sometimes history – or the people who make history – takes unexpected turns.”
Y. N. Harari (2013) en “Sapiens: Breve Historia de la Humanidad”
“One critical activity of collaborative management is to build relationships and interactions that result in achieving the collective purpose. Such activity is intended to facilitate interaction among partners, reduce complexity and uncertainty by promoting open and fluid information exchange, and increase communication linkages among partners to the collaboration.”
M. McGuire, C. Silvia & J.M. Bryson (2015) in “Managing Effective Collaborations”
“By changing the basis of our behaviour […] we can create a radically-different collective imagination, a new vision for the future of society that’s rooted in equality and solidarity; one that values things and people that add true worth to our lives rather than extracting value for private gain.”, read the whole article here.
