The City of L’Aquila as a Living Lab: The INCIPICT Project and the 5G Trial

2019 ◽  
pp. 177-188
Author(s):  
Fabio Franchi ◽  
Fabio Graziosi ◽  
Andrea Marotta ◽  
Claudia Rinaldi
Keyword(s):  
Living Lab ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Delta Project, Towards a Sustainable Campus

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Héctor Hugo ◽  
Felipe Espinoza ◽  
Ivetheyamel Morales ◽  
Elías Ortiz ◽  
Saúl Pérez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
City Council ◽  
Business Community ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Area Of Influence ◽  
External Actors ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

The University of Guayaquil, which shares the same name as the city where it is located, faces the challenge of transforming its image for the XXI century. It was deemed necessary to identify details about the urban evolution of the historic link with the city, in relation to the changes produced by the project’s siting and its direct area of influence. The goal is to integrate the main university campus within a framework which guarantees sustainability and allows innovation in the living lab. To achieve this, the action research method was applied, focused on participation and the logic framework. For the diagnosis, proposal, and management model, integrated working groups were organized with internal users such as professors, students, and university authorities, and external actors such as residents, the local business community, Guayaquil city council, and the Governorate of Guayas. As result of the diagnosis, six different analysis dimensions were established which correspond to the new urban agenda for the future campus: compactness, inclusiveness, resilience, sustainability, safety and participation. As a proposal, the urban design integrates the analysis dimensions whose financing and execution are given by the Town Hall, at the same time the Governorate integrates the campus with its network of community police headquarters.

Virtual Environments as Enablers of Civic Awareness and Engagement

2022 ◽  
pp. 565-578
Author(s):  
Paolo Bellavista ◽  
Antonio Corradi ◽  
Luca Foschini ◽  
Eliza Helena Gomes ◽  
Elena Lamberti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Wide Availability ◽  
Civic Awareness ◽  
The City ◽  
Privacy Issues

The wide availability of accurate sensors currently hosted by smartphones are enabling new participative urban management opportunities. Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) allows people to actively participate in any aspect of urban planning, by collecting and sharing data, reporting issues to public administrations, proposing solutions to urban planners, and delivering information of potential social interest to their community. Although collected data can be very helpful to enhance the quality of life of citizens, mobile users are still reluctant to use their devices to take advantages of the opportunities offered by the digitized society, mainly due to privacy issues. From August to December 2018, the city of Florianópolis, capital of Santa Catarina, in southern Brazil, was used as a living lab environment for an MCS application called ParticipACT Brazil, a socio/technical-aware crowdsensing platform. While the current literature focuses on MCS from a purely technical point of view, this research demonstrated that a multidisciplinary approach that includes both human sciences and ICT is needed in order to better identify critical issues, highlights the untapped potential of MCS paradigm, and suggests research methodologies that could provide benefits for all the actors involved (researchers, public administrators, and citizens).

Virtual Environments as Enablers of Civic Awareness and Engagement

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-34
Author(s):  
Paolo Bellavista ◽  
Antonio Corradi ◽  
Luca Foschini ◽  
Eliza Helena Gomes ◽  
Elena Lamberti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Wide Availability ◽  
Civic Awareness ◽  
The City ◽  
Privacy Issues

The wide availability of accurate sensors currently hosted by smartphones are enabling new participative urban management opportunities. Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) allows people to actively participate in any aspect of urban planning, by collecting and sharing data, reporting issues to public administrations, proposing solutions to urban planners, and delivering information of potential social interest to their community. Although collected data can be very helpful to enhance the quality of life of citizens, mobile users are still reluctant to use their devices to take advantages of the opportunities offered by the digitized society, mainly due to privacy issues. From August to December 2018, the city of Florianópolis, capital of Santa Catarina, in southern Brazil, was used as a living lab environment for an MCS application called ParticipACT Brazil, a socio/technical-aware crowdsensing platform. While the current literature focuses on MCS from a purely technical point of view, this research demonstrated that a multidisciplinary approach that includes both human sciences and ICT is needed in order to better identify critical issues, highlights the untapped potential of MCS paradigm, and suggests research methodologies that could provide benefits for all the actors involved (researchers, public administrators, and citizens).

scholarly journals Architecting and Designing Sustainable Smart City Services in a Living Lab Environment

Technologies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Alam ◽  
Jari Porras
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Smart Services ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
The People ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The City

In terms of sustainability, cities become smart when they provide smart services to the inhabitants using information and communication technologies without threatening the future of the environment, economy, or society. However, the process of developing such sustainable smart services has certain challenges, especially in understanding the real needs of the people living in the city. Citizens or, in a wider perspective, the inhabitants of the city are the key stakeholders in the case of smart services in a city. Active involvement of the people throughout the development process is a way of successfully designing such services. On the other hand, integrating sustainability, for example, including environmental data, into smart city services is challenging. Therefore, this research aims to combine environmental data with regular smart city services, while engaging city inhabitants in the development process. This approach was adapted from the concept of living lab methodology. Finally, an application developed following this method is presented and evaluated.

The Living Lab methodology for complex environments: Insights from the thermal refurbishment of a historical district in the city of Cahors, France

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 121-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Claude ◽  
Stéphane Ginestet ◽  
Marion Bonhomme ◽  
Nicolas Moulène ◽  
Gilles Escadeillas
Keyword(s):  
Complex Environments ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Historical District ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Assessing the Operational Carbon at University

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Safitri Zen ◽  
Masilah Bandi ◽  
Kasturi Devi Karniah ◽  
Iklil Nabihah Binti Abu Bakar ◽  
Rozana Zakaria
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Source ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Campus Initiatives ◽  
The City

The establishment of low carbon assessment initiatives is a crucial task especially at the city level. The determination of which source of carbon contributed more require robust data set and strategic approach. Hence, by using the campus as a small city approach, the establishment of carbon assessment and its’ reduction initiatives was required to keep track of the hotspot of the carbon source. The substantial amount of carbon source from campus operations such as energy consumption in the building, waste generation, and water consumption were identified. Moreover, as institutions of higher education, the execution of low carbon campus was initiated structurally involves the triangulation of research activities, teaching & learning and as well as campus operations or known as campus living lab approach. The application of low carbon cities framework, LCCF and assessment system enables to strategize the low carbon campus initiatives through the use of carbon footprint concept and the LCCF carbon track.

scholarly journals Open Innovations and Living Labs: Promises or Challenges to Regional Renewal

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-86
Author(s):  
Ilari Karppi
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Spatial Attributes ◽  
Structured Information ◽  
Living Labs ◽  
The City

The paper brings to the foreground modes and strategies of organising purposeful action that may be conductive to local and regional actors’ successful coping in the more and more competitive environment. The paper is pragmatist by its approach in a sense that it emphasises preconditions and possibilities for making ideas work. However, to do this is a difficult task. In the maze of multifaceted information flows and revolutionary technologies for reaching them enterprises and public actors need to find and construct better structured information that really helps them to operate. The paper introduces two sets of case activities that build on open innovation and living lab approaches in their attempts to make the boundaries between organisations and their environment more permeable. Its findings support the structuralist idea that spatial attributes matter more than as a mere venue, platform, or even container of social action. The venues studied in the paper are unique: one of the oldest still remaining factory buildings in the innermost core of the city of Tampere and a re-used loghouse in a peri-urban landscape outside the city. They both serve now as true exploratory spaces with no functional or institutional lock-ins stemming from them to bond their present-day users.

scholarly journals Assessing the Operational Carbon at University

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Safitri Zen ◽  
Masilah Bandi ◽  
Kasturi Devi Karniah ◽  
Iklil Nabihah Binti Abu Bakar ◽  
Rozana Zakaria
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Source ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Campus Initiatives ◽  
The City

The establishment of low carbon assessment initiatives is a crucial task especially at the city level. The determination of which source of carbon contributed more require robust data set and strategic approach. Hence, by using the campus as a small city approach, the establishment of carbon assessment and its’ reduction initiatives was required to keep track of the hotspot of the carbon source. The substantial amount of carbon source from campus operations such as energy consumption in the building, waste generation, and water consumption were identified. Moreover, as institutions of higher education, the execution of low carbon campus was initiated structurally involves the triangulation of research activities, teaching & learning and as well as campus operations or known as campus living lab approach. The application of low carbon cities framework, LCCF and assessment system enables to strategize the low carbon campus initiatives through the use of carbon footprint concept and the LCCF carbon track.

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