Community Building and Co-production: The Face Mask Sewing Initiative at the of COVID-19

Lukas Valek, Vladimír Bures, Olga Glumac, Mariusz Kwiatkowski, Dorota Bazun, Aram Vartikyan, Yevgine Vardanyan, Alla Strishna

Community Building and Co-production: The Face Mask Sewing Initiative at the of COVID-19

Číslo: 4/2023
Periodikum: Sociální práce

Klíčová slova: co-production, co-creation, community building, COVID-19, face mask

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Anotace: OBJECTIVES: This study reacts to people’s co-productive grassroots community problemsolving

in reaction to complications caused by COVID-19 and related restrictions.
THEORETICAL BASE: The authors pay special attention to the community creation and
potential of co-production from the bottom to up when those who gathered around the same goal
share an intra-group identity. METHODS: A multidisciplinary view of community building and
co-production around the unique situation of pandemics. The article’s core lies in the intersection of
social policy, sociology, social economics, and knowledge sciences. The supportive research consists
of a survey with 249 respondents, and the questionnaires were supported by ten semi-structured
interviews, including views on actors of the Quadruple helix. OUTCOMES: The discussion
outlines links to differences between co-production and co-creation, communities of practice, the
disaster side of the issue, involved systems archetypes, and the emergent phenomenon of local
communities gaining identity and encapsulating themselves from outside help. SOCIAL WORK
IMPLICATIONS: A perspective to the multifaceted term of co-production. Understanding
underlying processes within co-production, co-creation of social policies, and related community
building is one of the key points to navigate how people self-organize and thus are less dependent
on outside help of social services. A more resilient community is able to tend to many of its
problems independently.