Urban Living Labs for Sustainability in Suburbs in Need of Modernization and Social Uplift

Buhr, Katarina; Federley, Maija; Karlsson, Anja

doi:10.22215/timreview/958

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“…The innovation ecosystem can be formed by partnerships which may include prospective user groups, companies, research institutions and universities, local authorities, etc.. The formation of these public-private-people partnerships (PPPP or 4Ps), also known as Quadruple Helix formations, can yield potential advantages, such as greater public involvement, transdisciplinary research, creativity and knowledge exchange [47], and also influence public affairs and policy innovation [48,49]. More specifically, in parallel with CS, LLs can also exercise different types of governance: (i) as an input for direct governance, LLs are used by policy makers to design, explore, experience, and refine new policies and regulations [40], or (ii) as a policy instrument for enriching regional innovation [50].…”

Section: Living Labs: Participation In Open and User-driven Innovationmentioning

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Urban Living Labs and Citizen Science: From Innovation and Science towards Policy Impacts

Veeckman

Temmerman

2021

Sustainability

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City governments are currently exploring different participatory mechanisms in order to meet the growing demand in society for deliberate decision-making. Through developments in sensing technology, data processing and visualization, citizen science is emerging as a powerful tool for the general public to participate in scientific research that informs policy. Citizen science can be used as an approach in Urban Living Labs, whereby public and private stakeholders are involved in innovation and data collection processes together with citizens. However, there is currently little synergy between citizen science and Urban Living Labs, and how science, innovation and policy can be interoperable. Therefore, this article conducts a comparative case study analysis on the participatory processes and related outputs, outcomes and impacts of the FloodCitiSense Urban Living Labs (Brussels, Birmingham, Rotterdam). These initiatives developed an early warning system for urban flooding through the collection and analysis of crowdsourced information. Data on the participatory processes were collected through 11 in-depth interviews and evaluated on its effectiveness in achieving policy outcomes. The discussion reflects on best practices in incorporating citizen science in Urban Living Labs based on the experienced opportunities and challenges in FloodCitiSense.

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Section: Living Labs: Participation In Open and User-driven Innovationmentioning

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Urban Living Labs and Citizen Science: From Innovation and Science towards Policy Impacts

Veeckman

Temmerman

2021

Sustainability

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“…At the same time, the role of stakeholders particularly members of the public and their willingness to participate in laboratories is not known and defined [67][68][69]. Often a high degree of participation is emphasized as important [70,71], but only a few studies analyze the level of participation and the methods used to involve users and citizens in laboratories [72]. Moreover, there is a lack of empirical and comparative studies that focus on the added value of laboratories [17,73].…”

Section: Inter-and Transdisciplinary Approaches In Transport Sciencementioning

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An Inter- and Transdisciplinary Approach to Developing and Testing a New Sustainable Mobility System

2019

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Sustainability research is frequently tasked with the development of concrete solutions that can be directly applied to socio-environmental problems as such this paper presents and discusses an inter- and transdisciplinary approach to developing and testing a mobility-on-demand-system in a “real world laboratory” set up in Schorndorf, Germany. This paper addresses the following questions: (1) How can stakeholders be involved in the research and development process and become co-designers? (2) What are the suitable ways of supporting and facilitating interdisciplinary exchange and joint work at different places? The main contribution of this paper is the description of a methodological approach. It thereby reflects on the process of inter- and transdisciplinary work in the development phase and pilot operation. In addition, a joint working document, a so called “Specification Book”, is utilized to facilitate teamwork and enable the exchange of scientific knowledge within the team. The experiences in the project are also reflected upon and specific recommendations are determined. The paper further reflects on the possibilities and challenges of the methodology and provides recommendations for its application. The originality of the paper lies in its description and reflection of a method that goes beyond the participation of users in the design phase of the project.

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“…On the one hand, there is research that systemizes and categorizes living lab methods at a relatively high level of abstraction (see, for instance, Leminen and Westerlund 2017). On the other hand, there is research depicting the more detailed practices involved in applying living lab methods in specific case contexts, which provide a closer and more practice-oriented understanding of living lab methods (see, for instance, Keijzer-Broers et al 2015;Buhr et al 2016). There is also more prescriptive literature, which tries to model living lab methods.…”

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“…Some studies assume living labs to be a social science methodology to be applied by researchers (see Dekker et al 2020). Living labs can be set up and enacted by researchers to bring about innovation or societal change, and thus the researcher role resembles action research (Buhr et al 2016). However, this is just one of several ways of enacting researcher roles in relation to living labs.…”

Section: Concluding Discussion: Knowledge Gaps and Future Researchmentioning

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Living Labs for Public Sector Innovation: An Integrative Literature Review

Fuglsang

Hansen

Mergel

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Administrative Sciences

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The public administration literature and adjacent fields have devoted increasing attention to living labs as environments and structures enabling the co-creation of public sector innovation. However, living labs remain a somewhat elusive concept and phenomenon, and there is a lack of understanding of its versatile nature. To gain a deeper understanding of the multiple dimensions of living labs, this article provides a review assessing how the environments, methods and outcomes of living labs are addressed in the extant research literature. The findings are drawn together in a model synthesizing how living labs link to public sector innovation, followed by an outline of knowledge gaps and future research avenues.

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Urban Living Labs for Sustainability in Suburbs in Need of Modernization and Social Uplift

Cited by 20 publications

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Urban Living Labs and Citizen Science: From Innovation and Science towards Policy Impacts

Urban Living Labs and Citizen Science: From Innovation and Science towards Policy Impacts

An Inter- and Transdisciplinary Approach to Developing and Testing a New Sustainable Mobility System

Living Labs for Public Sector Innovation: An Integrative Literature Review

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