Social innovation for the conservation of textile-artisan practices based on information management and intercultural education

Abstract

Social innovation is a strategy for solving problems in community settings that integrates the cooperation of different participants to promote better conditions. This article aims to identify how co-creation practices promote the conservation of artisan textile knowledge through knowledge management and interculturality in social and educational spaces in the municipality of Nobsa - Boyacá, Colombia. In this, a descriptive investigation was privileged, for which there was a population of textile artisans and students of an educational institution of the municipality. The instruments used were the focus group technique and surveys to obtain data related to particular social aspects of the community under study. Social, educational, and business spaces were created using living laboratories that allowed the search for social alternatives to the problems encountered. As a result, a knowledge management model was obtained, based on the Nonaka and Takeuchi (1994) model, which responded to the research objectives, contributing to the reduction of acculturation of textile practices on a local level.