BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Living Labs involve conducting research activities in a real-life environment. They provide interaction spaces where participants collaborate on new technologies, services, products, or systems. Living Labs are becoming a popular way to address societal challenges and have been used in various domains such as urban development, mobility, education, and sustainability. The format Living Labs take is widely interpreted: some are heavily co-creative, whereas others focus on testing research-led approaches or moving innovations beyond laboratories and academia.
EXAMPLE:
WRI: The World Resources Institute (WRI) Living Lab for Equitable Climate Action is supporting justice-centred behavioural policies and practices, and quantifying population-level behaviour change impacts in transport, energy, and food choices in Mexico, India and the US.
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- Infosheets-6-SSH-CENTRE-Living-Labs.pdf An infographic explaining how Living Labs allow contributions to the scientific research
- European Network of Living Labs – An umbrella organisation for living labs around the world
- Hossain, M., Leminen, S. and Westerlund, M., 2019. A systematic review of living lab literature. Journal of Cleaner Production 213, pp.976–988 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3307055
- Schäpke, N., Bergmann, M., Stelzer, F., Lang, D., J. 2018. Labs in the Real World. GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 27(1), pp. 8-11 DOI: 10.14512/gaia.27.S1.4