Cracks in the wall of a car-oriented local mobility system – Results of an urban living lab

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 ◽  
pp. 101678
Author(s):  
Philipp Rollin ◽  
Sebastian Bamberg ◽  
Carmen Ketterl ◽  
Stefan Weiland
Keyword(s):  
Urban Living ◽  
Local Mobility ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Mobility System

Living Labs and Urban Smartness

2015 ◽  
pp. 98-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grazia Concilio ◽  
Francesco Molinari
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
City Life ◽  
Life Conditions ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Living Labs ◽  
Governance Models ◽  
Stakeholder Partnerships ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

Urban Living Labs are socio-digital innovation environments in realistic city life conditions based on multi-stakeholder partnerships that effectively involve citizens in the co-creation and co-production of new or reformed public services and infrastructures. This chapter explores the growing phenomenon of Urban Living Labs and analyses the nature of related innovations in the perspective of ‘City Smartness' – a mantra for local governments worldwide which are having to address increasingly complex problems with fast diminishing financial resources. It goes on to briefly overview the urban governance models emerging in such environments and finally focuses on the challenges posed by these models as result of integration between the ‘technology push' Smart City vision and the ‘human pull' Urban Living Lab concept and approach.

Intermediation and Learning in Stellenbosch’s Urban Living Lab

2018 ◽  
pp. 91-105
Author(s):  
Megan Davies ◽  
Mark Swilling
Keyword(s):  
Urban Living ◽  
Living Lab

scholarly journals Applying an RRI Filter in Key Learning on Urban Living Labs’ Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 3833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Van Geenhuizen
Keyword(s):  
Power Distribution ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
Learning Framework ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Living Labs ◽  
Responsible Research ◽  
Practical Implications

Urban living labs is a practical methodology in improving sustainability in cities by facilitating collaborative learning and innovation in a real-life environment, thereby mainly responding to the needs of users (citizens). The paper aims to filter a list of key learnings on urban living labs through the lens of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). One of the motivations is that key learnings on urban living labs are mainly derived from means-goal effectiveness (MGE) thinking while the urban setting calls for a broader perspective due to complexity and tension from the multi-actor, multifunctional, and multi-scalar character of cities. The filtering reveals almost 40 learnings as ‘overlap’ and ‘exclusive for MGE’. Importantly, five learnings are identified as specific for RRI and potentially enriching living lab methodology: ethical and normative principles like health, safety, security, and equality between societal groups, and a wider distribution of benefits and risks of living lab outcomes, in particular, contradictory sustainability issues. The RRI filtering causes three practical implications: coping with uneven power distribution between stakeholders, limited feasibility of applying the comprehensive learning framework, and challenges of overarching platform structures enabling to better incorporate RRI concerns in living lab methodology. The findings as presented in an adapted list are new, as RRI values and concerns have seldom been applied to practical innovation and have never been explicitly applied to urban living labs’ performance beyond the borders of effectiveness thinking.

scholarly journals Co-production for innovation: the urban living lab experience

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 310-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgia Nesti
Keyword(s):  
Urban Living ◽  
Living Lab

scholarly journals Urban Planning by Experiment at Precinct Scale: Embracing Complexity, Ambiguity, and Multiplicity

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-207
Author(s):  
Darren Sharp ◽  
Rob Raven
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
Net Zero ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Living Labs ◽  
Empirical Illustration

Urban living labs have emerged as spatially embedded arenas for governing urban transformation, where heterogenous actor configurations experiment with new practices, institutions, and infrastructures. This article observes a nascent shift towards experimentation at the precinct scale and responds to a need to further investigate relevant processes in urban experimentation at this scale, and identifies particular challenges for urban planning. We tentatively conceptualise precincts as spatially bounded urban environments loosely delineated by a particular combination of social or economic activity. Our methodology involves an interpretive systematic literature review of urban experimentation and urban living labs at precinct scale, along with an empirical illustration of the Net Zero Initiative at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, which is operationalising its main campus into a living lab focussed on precinct-scale decarbonisation. We identify four processual categories relevant to precinct-scale experimentation: embedding, framing, governing, and learning. We use the empirical illustration to discuss the relevance of these processes, refine findings from the literature review and conclude with a discussion on the implications of our article for future scholarship on urban planning by experiment at precinct scale.

scholarly journals Urban Living Lab: What Is It, and What Is the Matter?

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 22-37
Author(s):  
Dexter Du
Keyword(s):  
Urban Living ◽  
Living Lab

scholarly journals A Methodology for Designing Smart Urban Living Labs from the University for the Cities of the Future

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (20) ◽  
pp. 6712
Author(s):  
Nadhiely Martínez-Bello ◽  
Mónica José Cruz-Prieto ◽  
David Güemes-Castorena ◽  
Alberto Mendoza-Domínguez
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Residual Water ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Living Labs ◽  
Smart Living ◽  
The University

Cities have high demand and limited availability of water and energy, so it is necessary to have adequate technologies to make efficient use of these resources and to be able to generate them. This research focuses on developing and executing a methodology for an urban living lab vocation identification for a new water and energy self-sufficient university building. The methods employed were constructing a technological roadmap to identify global trends and select the technologies and practices to be implemented in the building. Among the chosen technologies were those for capturing and using rain and residual water, the generation of solar energy, and water and energy generation and consumption monitoring. This building works as a living laboratory since the operation and monitoring generate knowledge and innovation through students and research groups that develop projects. The insights gained from this study may help other efforts to avoid pitfalls and better design smart living labs and off-grid buildings.

scholarly journals Enhancing Early Innovation in an Urban Living Lab: Lessons from Espoo, Finland

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soile Juujärvi ◽  
Virpi Lund
Keyword(s):  
Urban Living ◽  
Living Lab

Living Labs and Urban Smartness

2020 ◽  
pp. 274-287
Author(s):  
Grazia Concilio ◽  
Francesco Molinari
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
City Life ◽  
Life Conditions ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Living Labs ◽  
Governance Models ◽  
Stakeholder Partnerships ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

Urban Living Labs are socio-digital innovation environments in realistic city life conditions based on multi-stakeholder partnerships that effectively involve citizens in the co-creation and co-production of new or reformed public services and infrastructures. This chapter explores the growing phenomenon of Urban Living Labs and analyses the nature of related innovations in the perspective of ‘City Smartness' – a mantra for local governments worldwide which are having to address increasingly complex problems with fast diminishing financial resources. It goes on to briefly overview the urban governance models emerging in such environments and finally focuses on the challenges posed by these models as result of integration between the ‘technology push' Smart City vision and the ‘human pull' Urban Living Lab concept and approach.

An urban living lab monitoring and post occupancy evaluation for a Trombe wall proof of concept

Solar Energy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 556-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marwa Dabaieh ◽  
Dalya Maguid ◽  
Deena El Mahdy ◽  
Omar Wanas
Keyword(s):  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
Post Occupancy Evaluation ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Trombe Wall
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