A research blog on collective action, social innovation and resilient communities and cities

  • Why Casie?

    CASIE seeks to understand and highlight the importance of collective action and social innovation for resilient neighbourhoods and cities in East Asia and Europe. Two-thirds of the world’s population is expected to live in cities, which are considered the engines of global and national economic growth and hubs of social, cultural, and political life. However,…

  • Casie is alive!

    CASIE is alive and kicking! After some delays, the research project Neighbourhood Collective Action and Social Innovation for Resilient Cities in East Asia and Europe, CASIE is officially launched today. CASIE seeks to understand and highlight the importance of collective action and social innovation for building resilient neighbourhoods and cities across East Asia and Europe.…

  • Sustainable Localities Lab is closing

    The Hanyang University Sustainable Localities Lab will close at the end of this month. Since its inception in 2020, the lab has been an inspiring research environment that has shaped the comparative research on localities as social networks and symbolic structures, embedded in particular geographical, cultural and institutional contexts, and the transformative potential of localities…

  • Funding received

    Exciting news! CASIE has received funding from the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency. The research project has been selected through the Call for (co-) funding of projects and programmes to strengthen the international mobility of Slovenian researchers and research organisations and to promote the international engagement of Slovenian applicants (JP C3.K8.IC), which is a part…

  • Casie blogs

    Welcome to the CASIE blog. CASIE would like to blog about neighbourhood collective action and social innovation, resilient communities and local change in urban Asia. However, it will take some time before this blog is ready. Please be patient and stay tuned. In the meantime, you can visit the Hanyang University Sustainable Localities Lab to…