An Insterstitial Space for Social Innovation

In this paper, drawing on an ethnographic study of the OpenIDEO community, we examine how an organization, IDEO, created and cultivated a diverse and global community to collaboratively develop solutions on grand challenges such as health, education, aging, and safety. Through inductive analysis, we identify that to foster collaborative problem-solving for social impact, IDEO’s OpenIDEO team enacted three practices: temporal structuring,...