POST GROWTH PROJECTS
  • Home
  • About
  • Courses
  • Contact

Prototyping social-ecological resilience
​in urban home ownership

A case study in institutional agency among social entrepreneurs 
study proposal

Summary

We live in a period during which housing affordability, inequality, and the ecological crisis motivate social entrepreneurs to disrupt homeownership and land development patterns. This study seeks to trace the journey of socially-motivated and institutionally-embedded entrepreneurs, documenting both their investigation into novel housing models as well as the ways they address context-specific institutional problems.

As a “hyper-commodified” and debt-backed housing market is challenged by shocks and disturbances to ecological and economic conditions, how can entrepreneurs model a house-as-home rather than home-as-commodity?  

​The ideation and prototyping of a new model takes place in one of Canada’s major urban centres—Winnipeg—leveraging experience in Asian, European, and North American contexts. The entrepreneurs draw from knowledge in a variety of professional fields—from finance and law to business, architecture and public policy. The experiential diversity of the group, including a wide geographical, cultural, and professional scope, provides an opportunity to study what Garud et al (2007) refer to as a “theoretical puzzle” in institutional entrepreneurship: how are embedded agents able to envision new practices and get others to adopt them? 
This site is not formally associated with any organization and it has no political affiliation. 

Schedule a meeting with James. 
  • Home
  • About
  • Courses
  • Contact