(Dørene lukkes præcist)

Bedømmelsesudvalg:

• Lektor Steen Høyrup (formand), Aarhus Universitet, Institut for Uddannelse og Pædagogik (DPU)
• Professor Pelle Ehn, Konst, kultur og kommunikation, Malmö högskola
• Lektor Silje Kamille Friis, Designskolen Kolding

Hovedvejleder

• Lektor Lotte Darsø, Aarhus Universitet, Institut for Uddannelse og Pædagogik (DPU)

Medvejledere

• Lektor Eva Brandt, Kunstakademiets Designskole
• Projektleder Peter Dexters og Udviklingschef Lars Thuesen fra Kriminalforsorgen

Forsvaret ledes af lektor Jette Kofoed, Aarhus Universitet, Institut for Uddannelse og Pædagogik (DPU).

Afhandlingen ligger til gennemsyn hos Institut for Uddannelse og Pædagogik (DPU), Tuborgvej 164, bygning D, lokale 329, sekretariatet.

Institut for Uddannelse og Pædagogik (DPU) er vært ved en efterfølgende reception.

Summary:
“The entire groups of officers and prisoners from unit 1 were present at the workshop. The overall division into “us and them” in the context is between prisoners and officers. However, this division is not the only boundary defining interactions in the context. Social boundaries for practice exist within officers’ community of practice and boundaries of this practice are “real in their consequences”.” P.178

The study is located in the Danish Prison Service, investigating co-creative processes among prison officers and prisoners. A series of initiatives were carried out in two maximum-security prisons and two remand houses, with the purpose of creating space for changes in relations, perspectives, and practices. These initiatives are conceptualised as “innovative learning spaces”.

Theoretically the study is positioned in the cross-fields of co-design (participatory design), situated learning and social innovation. The concept of boundaries is used to explore the micro-changes in practices, which take place when officers and prisoners try out (rehearse) new ways of co-production in everyday prison-life.

The study emphasises the human element of innovation, and shows that social innovation is closely connected to learning at work and to changes in processes of meaning making amongst innovators.

Marie Aakjær has a background in design and broad experience with design projects with service innovation, concept design and user-driven innovation processes.  From this experience her interest in social innovation and workplace learning has increased, as fundamental parts of change and design processes that aim at developing the central product or service of an organisation.