ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the discursive underpinnings of Innovation Platform Norrby, a project that aims at rebuilding/regenerating a city district in a sustainable way, ecologically, financially, and socially. In 2011, the municipal cultural committee instigated a Cultural Planning project in Norrby, aiming at "strengthening democracy, increasing quality of life, and making use of place-generated cultural resources". In the conclusion of the report from the Cultural Planning project, results are described as being in line with the general objectives of the City of Boras. The politicians of Boras are well tuned to the integrative approach to sustainable development that has gradually been shaped and adapted by national and international governmental agencies since the report of the Brundtland Commission in 1987. Stevenson's criticism of cultural planning is relevant to Innovation Platform Norrby. In every meaning of the word, both VINNOVA and Innovation Platform Norrby, innovation is primarily about enabling collaboration between different agents, organizational fields, and ideas to promote new ways of thinking.
