Bernhard

Bernhard Resch is an Assistant Professor of Organization Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He serves as an Affiliate of the Discipline of Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Sydney Business School and was a Mobility Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.

His research seeks to understand how successful collaboration and co-creation can be fostered in interdisciplinary teams, as well as across departmental and organizational boundaries. As a passionate organizational ethnographer and co-designer, Bernhard can be found in impact hubs, P2P communities, living labs, or community businesses, researching new organizational forms suited for today's planetary challenges.

At Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, he leads the team science platform, Organizing Social Transformation, which examines the role of experimental spaces in urban transitions by comparing insights from initiatives in the fields of energy, migration, and social entrepreneurship. Beyond the ivory tower, Bernhard works as a consultant and trainer on creative leadership and collaboration design. His award-winning approach combines arts-based methods, serious play, and adult development to foster creativity, self-organization, and responsible innovation in teams.

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As an organizational researcher specializing in collaborative spaces and co-creation, I study how urban transitions can grow from the grassroots through community entrepreneurship, commons, and a shared focus on bioregional wealth.

My research shows that social transformation needs more than technological solutions and impact frameworks. We urgently need to envision and construct new relational infrastructures to shape regenerative business models, institutions, and mindsets.

JVC addresses this problem head-on by helping people and organizations in impact coalitions to recognize their values as the deepest drivers of (and obstacles to) collective action. Our interdisciplinary team develops JVC design methods to enhance the relational capacity for critical dialogue, mutual support, and equal participation in societal transition projects.