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We plan to investigate factors that might make the participation in a LivingLab Study attractive. Therefore, we present a sample of Austrians with flyers that avertise the participation in a LivingLab.

Social housing (SH) generally meets neither users’ needs nor comfort requirements. That leads to dissatisfaction and the need for renovations and improvements. Interventions in this type of housing require collaboration among different stakeholders, who have diverse perspectives and goals. This type of initiative should seek a shared understanding among the parties in the development of solutions and in the decision-making process. The Living Lab (LL) approach was adopted as a strategy to develop upgrades in existing housing in an integrated and collaborative way. This paper presents the results of an empirical study that aimed to identify opportunities to improve social housing with the direct involvement of users, researchers and public agents, during the Covid-19 pandemic. The results show that the reflexive interview technique, with the support of complementary activities, was an appropriate tool not only to identify upgrading opportunities, but also to create a bond and trust among participants in the first phase of the LL effort., Habitações Sociais (HS), em geral, não atendem às necessidades dos usuários e aos requisitos de conforto, gerando insatisfação e necessidade de reformas e melhorias. Intervenções nesse tipo de empreendimento requerem colaboração entre diversas partes interessadas, os quais possuem diferentes perspectivas e objetivos. Esse tipo de iniciativa deve buscar uma visão compartilhada entre as partes no desenvolvimento de soluções e na tomada de decisão. Nesta pesquisa, a abordagem dos Living Labs (LLs) foi adotada como estratégia para desenvolver melhorias em habitações existentes de forma integrada e colaborativa. Este artigo apresenta os resultados de um estudo que objetivou identificar oportunidades de melhorias em habitações sociais com o envolvimento direto dos usuários, pesquisadores e agentes públicos, durante a pandemia da Covid-19. Os resultados demonstram que a entrevista reflexiva, com o apoio de atividades complementares, foi uma ferramenta adequada não só para a identificação de oportunidades de melhoras, como para a criação de vínculo e confiança entre os participantes na primeira fase de implementação do LL.

To decarbonize the energy system by the year 2050, it is crucial that innovations are trialled in a ‘real world’ setting for the purpose of increasing public adoption and support, and for providing insights to decision-makers to ensure their decisions are effective and influential. Together, renewable energy systems, distributed and digitized ‘smart’ energy networks (SEN) provide opportunities to maximize energy efficiency, reduce transmission losses and drive down greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, such integrated Smart Local Energy Systems (SLES) are in the early stages of development and the technologies that underpin them lack testbeds where they can be developed and tested in a real-world environment. Here we demonstrate the potential role of one of Europe’s largest ‘at scale’ multi-vector Smart Energy Network Demonstrator—SEND, developed within a ‘living laboratory’ setting that provides the ‘blueprint’ for the development and testing of low-carbon energy technologies on the UK’s journey to net zero. Based on the SEND platform and data, we have developed and demonstrated several novel AI based smart algorithms for intelligent SLES control and management. We are also working with industry partners to develop a digital twin of the smart energy system on our campus.

The webinar Core elements and Specificities of the Living Lab topics took place on 6 July 2023 10:00 – 11:30 CEST. This last webinar provided participants with key information on the process to apply for the Living Labs topics part of the Horizon Europe Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’ call. Representatives of the European Commission provided an overview of the objectives of the EU Soil Mission, its core elements, and the specificities of the Living Labs topics. This webinar included a Q&A and we invited participants to share their questions in advance through the webinar registration form. *Please note that questions related to specific project applications will not be covered. If you need coaching services on your Living Lab or application ideas, we invite you to reach out to your national mentor. Watch the recording

Research has shown that access to building occupant behavior data can reduce energy consumption and improve occupants’ productivity, comfort, and well-being. However, behaviors can vary across cultural, geographic, building, environmental, and contextual settings. Therefore, to increase our understanding of the long-term naturalistic behavior of occupants, more living labs are emerging across different countries, offering an opportunity to address existing research gaps. With the growth of IoT and ubiquitous computing, it has become easier to replicate and validate short and long-term data across different contexts. However, selecting sensors' type, quantity, and position needs to be more cohesive with building information and activity simulation to avoid inaccurate, redundant, and privacy-intrusive sensing issues. In this dissertation, we tackle these critical challenges of living lab by demonstrating: 1) a methodology for integrating building simulation models to identify optimal light sensor placements with privacy-preserving sensing considerations, 2) a longitudinal in-hospital case study that integrates medical events data and environmental sensor streams to predict momentary patient sleep disruptions and 3) a novel methodology for integrating information extracted from building plans to support fault detection of long-term energy harvesting sensor deployments. Overall, the three chapters in this dissertation demonstrate contributions to three main pillars of living labs: instrumentation, utility, and maintenance.

Green infrastructure, particularly public greenspaces such as urban parks, plays an important role in urban environments, and improving public participation in greenspace practices and encouraging environmental stewardship can help to address some of the challenges of greenspace governance. We identify a gap in the research as to whether participation in citizen science projects can enhance connections between people and place and encourage better community participation in the stewardship of parks and urban greenspaces. The research adopts a Living Lab approach to utilise the inherent knowledge of the local community in developing digital experiments in the pilot site using a Nature Data Probe toolkit and seeks to explore its potential for enhancing nature connectedness by revealing hidden nature. We describe an action research method working with participants from a secondary school located close to a large urban park in Plymouth, UK. The results found that participants were more observant of hidden nature following the workshop and that an increase in the number of participants, and in the specific and descriptive responses identifying nature, was observed. These findings indicate that a deeper awareness of the natural environment was created and, in summary, we discuss the implications of this as a pathway to increased participation in greenspace governance.

The starting point of this study is a broader review of literature related to innovation partnerships. Based on that review, the concept of Living Labs was identified as a proper enabler of regional collaborative innovation between a variety of stakeholders. Then, the aim was to identify the practices for successful collaboration of Living labs through comparative case study in five European countries, i.e. Austria, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands and Sweden. As a result, we clustered the success factors to four categories: 1) shared vision, 2) funding and operational model 3) collaboration (including orchestration) and complementary partners and 4) value co-creation and impacts of the collaboration. As a practice-oriented comparative case study, there was only limited theoretical contributions; the linkages between different concepts was demonstrated both at literature and at practice.

The starting point of this study is a broader review of literature related to innovation partnerships. Based on that review, the concept of Living Labs was identified as a proper enabler of regional collaborative innovation between a variety of stakeholders. Then, the aim was to identify the practices for successful collaboration of Living labs through comparative case study in five European countries, i.e. Austria, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands and Sweden. As a result, we clustered the success factors to four categories: 1) shared vision, 2) funding and operational model 3) collaboration (including orchestration) and complementary partners and 4) value co-creation and impacts of the collaboration. As a practice-oriented comparative case study, there was only limited theoretical contributions; the linkages between different concepts was demonstrated both at literature and at practice.

The advent of the new innovation generation of 4.0 has been accompanied by a shift in the workplace. A new form of work has emerged which is based on collaboration between the different members of the ecosystem. It also emphasizes openness to the outside world. This form is applied in local collaboration platforms recognized by the Co-working spaces. I In this paper we will study the Living Labs and their role in the collaborative creation of innovations. A unique embedded case study is conducted in an innovation Living Lab hosted in Tunisia with nine international collaborators. The results of this qualitative study show that Living Labs need to be configured in a way that facilitates open interaction, sharing and collaborative creation of innovations. Similarly, through the analysis of the interviews with the collaborators we deduce the emergence of the concept of interdisciplinarity as a determining variable of innovative co- creation in the Living Labs.

Es gibt verschiedene Wege, wie neues Wissen produziert und in die Gesellschaft implementiert werden kann. Reallabore und Living Labs bieten eine Plattform, wo diese Wege erprobt werden. Als Transformationskerne machen sie neue Formen der Implementierung sichtbar, die immer wichtiger werden., Cite as: Stauffacher, Michael (2023): Implementieren oder gemeinsam transformieren? Wie Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft in Reallaboren zusammenarbeiten, in: SAGW: Implementation – Wissenschaft und gesellschaftliche Transformation (Bulletin der Schweizerischen Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften 29,1), S. 50–52. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7670890

Strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) has drawn praise for representing the "sweet spot" between communities’ needs and firms’ resources, capabilities and efforts. But what if the concept is pushed to its limits? A firm can initiate CSR projects not just to help communities, but to directly realize profit from them. In this conceptual paper, we ask how CSR is understood and functions when the intent of CSR projects is to conduct a form of research and development (R&D). The intended innovations are not science-based, but socially oriented; they seek to determine how to profitably meet the needs of poor people in developing countries. We develop our argument from conversations with managers and teaching cases that explain how executives believe CSR helps firms (learn how) to profitably serve new potential customers – whether through developing new markets or new products and services with a social purpose. Using CSR as a form of "living R&D" allows firms to make mistakes and to avoid short-term shareholder pressures. But there are very real risks to what in essence is unregulated experimentation on poor people, and we highlight some of them. Our argument highlights the ways in which such innovation and profit-oriented CSR challenge thinking on both CSR and R&D, and we make practical recommendations for how to ensure that intended beneficiaries are not harmed, but can instead benefit.

With the vision “Innovation by experiment” the Bauhaus.MobilityLab started in July 2020 as a living lab in the district Brühl of the city Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany. As a unique project, it is coupling the sectors mobility, logistics and energy into a unified living lab. It allows to design, develop and evaluate innovative services to increase the quality of life in the city. Bauhaus.MobilityLab offers access to live smart city data of different domains and provides a set of powerful artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for data processing, analytics and forecasting. In contrast to existing platforms, its uniqueness is the available and integrated living lab. It allows directly rolling out new smart city services and to evaluate the impact in the real world. This paper describes the implementation of the technical platform supporting the Bauhaus.MobilityLab, realized according to the DIN SPEC 91357 as an open urban platform. It focuses on data sharing based on the concepts of the International Data Spaces and the integration of AI algorithms. The concepts are presented based on examples in the energy domain.

The smart city is recognized as a new city model for inclusive urban planning. Many local governments are making smart city plans to develop new policies that manage urban issues in South Korea. They identify issues through citizen surveys and decide which issues should be managed with priority. Some governments test developed policies based on citizen engagement. Most local governments use the living labs to encourage citizen engagement in smart city plans since these are public spaces where planners engage citizens to develop innovative and inclusive ideas. This study conducted a content analysis of smart city plans of local government. We analyzed the various approaches to the living lab and examined the stage of the planning process it is utilized in. Additionally, we identified the barrier to the living lab by interviewing people who participated in the smart city plan. According to the analysis, a barrier to citizen engagement exists in smart city plans; most citizen engagement is only used when planners develop ideas for setting visions and goals. It implies that citizen engagement occurs at a limited level in smart city plans and may cause planning to be less inclusive. We suggest that citizen engagement should be considered in the whole planning process to improve the inclusiveness of smart city plans and encourage sustainable citizen engagement.

While universities have increasingly become tobacco-/smoke-free, to our knowledge, no campus has reported 100% policy compliance. Innovative approaches to encourage compliance and ongoing data collection are needed. This paper describes actions undertaken, framed within a Living Lab (LL) approach, to implement smoke-free campus policies in an Irish university. The action research comprised student-collected data on observed smoking on campus to evaluate adherence and compliance, first to a smoke-free zones policy (June 2016–March 2018), and then to a smoke-free campus policy (March 2019–February 2020). From June 2016–February 2020, 2909 smokers were observed. Adherence, defined as the average reduction in number of observed smokers from baseline in May 2016, reduced by 79% from 5.7 to 4.9 . Compliance, defined as the proportion of smokers who complied when reminded of the policy, was 90% (2610/2909). Additional activities included development of a broader health promotion programme; identification of a pattern of ‘social smoking’; and promoting increased awareness of the environmental harms of tobacco. Ongoing policy implementation is essential for smoke-free policies and should include data collection and evaluation. Actions framed within the characteristics of a LL achieved fewer observed smokers. A LL approach is recommended to encourage policy adherence and compliance.

This first book volume collects country reports produced by the AE4EU Horizon 2020 project and the European Association Agroecology Europe which involved a large number of organisations, as well as more than 25 "mappers" who conducted the work in different European countries. Among them were many members of the Agroecology Europe Youth Network (AEEUYN). The different volumes of the book series offer an illustrative state of the art of agroecology in Europe by synthesizing and providing key information on the common understanding of agroecology, as well as its development at the European level. To scale up agroecology, this first book volume provides critical information and analysis of the development of agroecology in different contexts, which is very much needed as a necessary step to attain larger insights about the state of the art of agroecology, as well as to support its expansion and use at the policymaker level. Documenting the development of agroecology in 13 European countries (Albania, Austria, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Malta, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Romania), this volume describes 112 initiatives, examples, cases, and programmes linked to agroecology, and the development of agroecology in these European countries as well as the diversity of use of the concept.

The current deliverable, namely D6.2, is part of Task 6.2: “Results of the DSS for the Case Study Sites Under Future Scenarios” (Lead TUC, participants: UPV, UFZ, UNIPR, CERTE and BU). The aim of D6.2 is to present the results of the simulation-optimization (S-O) procedure for the Tympaki study area for the baseline scenario of a 30-year period (1975-2005) as well as for a climate change scenario, considering RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 for a period from 1975 until 2040. Additionally, the results of the cost-benefit analysis for the case study sites of Requena-Utiel (Spain), Tympaki (Greece) and Konya (Turkey) are presented., This project is part of the PRIMA Program supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under Grant Agreement No 1923

This milestone, namely M6.3, is part of Task 6.3 “Production of Maps from the DSS Tool According to Suggested Scenarios and Dissemination with Stakeholders” (Lead TUC, participants: UPV, UFZ, IST-ID, CERTE and BU). The aim of M6.3 is to give a short description of the way the results of the DSS are spatially represented., This project is part of the PRIMA Programme supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 1923.

After the individual interviews carried out with the users and stakeholders of the Requena-Utiel aquifer, Spain, from March to October 2021, the Spanish living lab was held on the 4th of March 2022 in Requena city. The Spanish team of the PRIMA project eGroundwater and the Spanish team of the InTheMED project, both form the Universitat Politècnica de València, organized this event. This document contains the summaries of the three sessions in which the living lab was divided., This project is part of the PRIMA Programme supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 1923.

Purpose The study aimed to identify which digital biomarkers are collected and which specific devices are used according to vulnerable and susceptible individual characteristics in a living-lab setting. Materials and Methods A literature search, screening, and appraisal process was implemented using the Web of Science, Pubmed, and Embase databases. The search query included a combination of terms related to “digital biomarkers,” “devices that collect digital biomarkers,” and “vulnerable and susceptible groups.” After the screening and appraisal process, a total of 37 relevant articles were obtained. Results In elderly people, the main digital biomarkers measured were values related to physical activity. Most of the studies used sensors. The articles targeting children aimed to predict diseases, and most of them used devices that are simple and can induce some interest, such as wearable device-based smart toys. In those who were disabled, digital biomarkers that measured location-based movement for the purpose of diagnosing disabilities were widely used, and most were measured by easy-to-use devices that did not require detailed explanations. In the disadvantaged, digital biomarkers related to health promotion were measured, and various wearable devices, such as smart bands and headbands were used depending on the purpose and target. Conclusion As the digital biomarkers and devices that collect them vary depending on the characteristics of study subjects, researchers should pay attention not only to the purpose of the study but also the characteristics of study subjects when collecting and analyzing digital biomarkers from living labs.

Despite the potential value of assistive technology to support people with dementia and their informal caregivers (=PlwD) to age in place, use of these innovations is still limited. To ensure that innovations better address specific needs of PlwD, it is important to actively involve them into the innovation process. A Living Lab (LL) is a user-centred research design in which multiple stakeholders, develop, test and validate innovative solutions in real-life environment together with end-users (i.e. PlwD). Although user involvement activities in LLs are seen as their main goal, little literature is available on how different stakeholders, including users, experience their collaboration in LLs. This case study (Playtime) investigates the experiences of various stakeholders, including PlwD, when developing a serious game in a LL. 18 semi-structured interviews were conducted with PlwD, healthcare professionals, developers and researchers about their experiences following the key-principles of a successful User Centred Design project. Results shows that the stakeholders of the Playtime LL are most positive with regard to the key-principles active user participation, continuous iteration of design solutions and multidisciplinary networks. Some lessons learned are selected to inspire other LLs when collaborating with PlwD in the development of assistive technology for dementia.

Nature-based solutions (NBSs) are increasingly implemented to mitigate natural risks in urban and rural contexts, from coastal to mountainous areas. Nevertheless, the lack of quantitative approaches to assess NBSs’ effectiveness limits their technical, social and cultural acceptance. Within the PHUSICOS project (EU H2020 Innovation Action; Grant Agreement nr. 776681) a comprehensive assessment framework tool (AFT) has been developed to fill this gap. This paper presents an ex-post analysis with the PHUSICOS AFT applied to the Isar River case study. The restoration of the urban reach of the Isar River, in the city of Munich, was implemented in the early 2000s and represents a successful example of ecosystem and user-friendly flood risk management plan. The performance of the NBS measures implemented to manage the flood risk and improve the ecological status of the river (NBS scenario) is assessed in comparison with an alternative scenario with traditional hard engineering measures (grey scenario, GS). Results underscore the NBS as a competitive alternative. The ex-post analysis shows the potential of the PHUSICOS AFT for NBS performance assessment, providing guidance on indicator selection, stakeholders’ management and performance assessment. The application discussed here is expected to aid professionals and researchers involved in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of NBSs. HIGHLIGHTS PHUSICOS project aims to assess the effectiveness of NBSs against natural hazard in rural and mountainous areas.; The proposed assessment framework tool allows evaluting the NBS features through a comprehensive approach.; The Isar River restoration is an effective case study to test the tool reliability.; The Living Lab can be intended as a fruitful tool to involve the stakeholders in the decision making.

The change of scale and potential reconfiguration of decision-making powers make the French context of reterritorialization of food seem favorable to the transition of agri-food systems in certain areas. However, it also includes a movement towards normalization and integration into the dominant system, which may lower the goals of transition, through the norm conveyed by actors and systems. Based on the example of a rural territory in the Vosges and a multi-actor agri-food dynamic in which the authors of this article are stakeholders, our analysis shows that a territorialized agri-food dynamic can actually create new narratives and new ways of doing and thinking that are necessary for the transition. This is achieved by at least partially standing back from this context and drawing on different resources. The search for otherness, both in the content and in the form of the project, is an advantage for a real transition of the agri-food system, without however guaranteeing it. Periods of reassurance shielded from the dominant regime and allowing for collective experimentation with alternative initiatives, as well as the reflexivity of the actors involved throughout the simultaneous processes of reflection and action, afford some distance from the normalizing context while taking advantage of the resources it can offer. The living-lab approach constitutes an inspiring methodology to achieve this. It allows for the implementation of an otherness of content and supports an otherness of form by facilitating the emergence of a niche in the food governance of the territory. At the same time, it also promoted a collective reflexivity among the stakeholders involved.

Living Labs, which are urban sites that include households and workplaces and are used to study the real-time use of technological innovations and devices, have become increasingly popular among environmental scientists to gain insights into energy consumption in peoples’ everyday life. However, recruiting a viable number of participants for such studies can pose a challenge to researchers: Factors like month-long study durations and the requirements to handle smart technology proficiently or frequently exchange information with researchers and other users do not necessarily make participation attractive for everyone. To identify relevant factors for participation, we conducted three large preregistered surveys (total N = 1479) in Austria: two conjoint studies and one experimental study. We found that advertising a Living Lab with a shorter duration (less than a month), providing the option to participate from home, and—a crucial point—offering financial incentives should be considered when considering promotion strategies and conducting thorough study planning. However, we discuss the fact that there might be a risk of selection bias for technic-savvy and future-oriented people.

Funding Information: We acknowledge the support from the European Commission through the ETHNA System project (Grant Nº 872360). Partial financial support was also provided by Portuguese FCT program UIDB/00066/2020 (CTS – Center of Technology and Systems). Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s). New organizational forms are emerging today at all levels of society, and more and more research is conducted in dynamic collaborative networks or ecosystems. Unlike traditional research centers, these new types of organization are very dynamic, with fluid boundaries, and volatile in terms of membership. This characteristic requires that more attention be paid to research ethics and RRI. This work reports on an implementation process carried out in a research and innovation ecosystem according to the principles and guidelines proposed by the ETHNA project. The process, its barriers and drivers are described, and finally, learned lessons and recommendations are presented. publishersversion published

Sowohl in der unternehmerischen Praxis, in der Forschung als auch in der Stadtentwicklung wird zunehmend auf Methoden der Open Innovation, auf Partizipation und Ko-Kreation gesetzt. Reallabore stellen dabei ein beliebtes Format dar, um Innovationen in einem offenen Prozess unter Einbindung vielfältiger Akteure zu gestalten, zu testen und weiterzuentwickeln. Dabei zeichnen sich in der Praxis jedoch vielfältige Formen von Reallaboren ab. Die AutorInnen arbeiten daher in der vorliegenden Studie die Begriffsgeschichte auf, definieren den Begriff und untersuchen empirisch, welche Formen von Reallaboren sich in der Praxis unterscheiden lassen. Entlang von konkreten Beispielen aus der Praxis und basierend auf einer Interview-Studie entwickeln die AutorInnen ein Klassifikationssystem, das Reallabore entlang der drei Dimensionen Rahmenbedingungen, Ökosystem und Technologie in sieben Gruppen einteilt: Demonstratorenwelten, Modulare Living Labs, KI-Reallabore, Smart City Living Labs, Urban Living Labs, Innovationsareale und integrierte Reallabore. Basierend auf den Erfahrungen in den untersuchten Praxisbeispielen formulieren die AutorInnen Handlungsempfehlungen auf, was interessierte Personen und Institutionen bei der Initiierung und beim Betrieb von Reallaboren beachten sollten.

Dementia is a growing global public health issue with 139 million cases projected by 2050 (World Health Organization, 2021). With no available cure, there is a pressing need for accessible and enjoyable lifestyle and psychosocial interventions that holistically support people living with dementia. Nature engagement has known benefits for people living with dementia; however, a range of barriers to accessing and engaging with outdoor green spaces exist. Living labs have been established as a means to generate innovative solutions to address everyday challenges people living with dementia face. The application of living labs in dementia research has often focused on indoor spaces (such as they person's home) being enabled through technological innovations. This scoping review seeks to understand whether living lab approaches in dementia research have integrated nature-based or outdoor interventions. And if so, what the outcomes have been.

Many IT organizations still struggle to integrate female professionals, and masculinity influences their cultures as well as the operations of design teams. As a result, technology design not uncommonly excludes users or reinforces gender stereotypes. Feminist HCI as a theoretical orientation to HCI research sensitizes researchers regarding questions such as whose concerns and interests are considered, whose voices are heard, and how stereotypes are inscribed into technology artifacts. However, academic debates did not impact IT practice to a substantial degree. Ergo, how to translate the broad commitments of feminist HCI into a pragmatic, context-sensitive research infrastructure in real-life environments remains to debate. This thesis contributes to present debates on feminist HCI, giving methodological guidance for analyzing and sharing gendered practices in IT organizations, promoting long-term reflection on women’s experiences regarding technology usage and production in the process. It argues that practice theory, expressed in a Practice-Based Design notion, offers a suitable solution to engage with such issues in real-life environments and proposes feminist Livings Labs as research infrastructures. Living Labs in the tradition of the PRAXLABS approach of the ‘Siegen School,’ where feminist HCI informs the research activities, offers unique qualities to do engaged research for and with women. They provide long-term collaboration, a broader picture from a range of stakeholders, grounds for exchange, and co-design possibilities for organizational change. I will report from experiences of setting up and managing a long-lasting feminist Living Lab in Germany during a three-year project called ‘GEWINN.’ Collaborating with six male-dominated IT organizations and additional stakeholders, the lab allowed to engage with everyday gender practices and effectively co-design possible solutions for problems rooted in real-life practice. Throughout this thesis, I will lay out how a feminist epistemology and methodology shaped the setup of the feminist Living Lab to match ambitions for emancipation and social change. Concrete (design) case studies will present how the activities in the lab were established and maintained. My experiences shed light on the unique characteristics of a feminist Living Lab as well as the opportunities and challenges that arise when conducting such engaged, value-driven research. Opportunities involve engaging with gender practices and building trustful relationships over a longer period of time, as well as fueling emancipatory actions. Challenges mainly include managing participation, addressing the sensitivity of the context and power hierarchies by cultivating safe spaces, the role of the researcher, and sustainability issues. In addition, based upon cross-comparisons with other Living Lab projects, I will show how my experiences can, at least partially, be transferred to other sensitive research settings concerned with so-called marginalized, potentially vulnerable, or less privileged populations, and vice versa. I will also offer reflections regarding applying the PRAXLABS framework as an infrastructural and analytical orientation. My insights might serve other scholars as guidance to conduct value-driven Living Lab work with marginalized populations in sensitive contexts in general and with an explicit feminist stance in particular., Viele IT-Organisationen tun sich immer noch schwer, weibliche Fachkräfte zu integrieren, und Männlichkeit beeinflusst sowohl ihre Kultur als auch die Arbeit der Designteams. Infolgedessen schließt Technologiedesign nicht selten Nutzende aus oder verstärkt Geschlechterstereotypen. Diese Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zu gegenwärtigen Debatten über feministische HCI, indem sie eine methodische Anleitung für die Analyse und den Austausch von geschlechtsspezifischen Praktiken in IT-Organisationen gibt und dabei eine langfristige Reflexion über die Erfahrungen von Frauen bei der Nutzung und Produktion von Technologie fördert. Es wird argumentiert, dass practice theory, ausgedrückt in einem practice-based-design-Konzept, eine geeignete Lösung bietet, um sich mit solchen Fragen in realen Umgebungen auseinanderzusetzen und es werden feministische Living Labs als Forschungsinfrastrukturen vorgeschlagen. Living Labs in der Tradition des PRAXLABS-Ansatzes der "Siegener Schule", bei dem feministische HCI die Forschungsaktivitäten prägt, bieten einzigartige Qualitäten, um engagierte Forschung für und mit Frauen zu betreiben. Meine Erkenntnisse könnten anderen WissenschaftlerInnen als Anleitung für die Durchführung wertorientierter Living-Lab-Arbeit mit marginalisierten Bevölkerungsgruppen in sensiblen Kontexten im Allgemeinen und mit einer explizit feministischen Haltung im Besonderen dienen.

Für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung unserer Gesellschaft haben lokale Initiativen und deren innovativen Aktivitäten eine grosse Bedeutung. Eine systematische Beobachtung und Begleitung durch die Forschung kann dabei helfen, aus den Initiativen zu lernen, andernorts Ähnliches anzustossen und somit eine breitere Wirkung zu entfalten. Orte, wo eine solche Zusammenarbeit von lokalen Initiativen, anderen Praxisakteuren und Forschenden für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung stattfindet, sind sogenannte „Reallabore“. Das Anstossen, Durchführen und systematische Beobachten und Analysieren von konkreten Interventionen und deren praktische Umsetzung bilden den Schwerpunkt dieses Handbuchs. Es ist als ein Hauptprodukt des Reallabors im Hunziker Areal in Zusammenarbeit mit vielen anderen Reallabor-Forschenden aus Deutschland und der Schweiz entstanden.

Living Labs have become a popular approach to facilitate multi-stakeholder engagement in open innovation processes in real-life settings. Despite their extensive application across various research fields, there is still a lack of theoretical understanding in this area. This study aims to take the first step towards developing a theory for Living Labs. In doing so, we will review the current state of the art of Living Lab theories as well as identify areas where further theoretical support is required. To achieve this, grounded theory will be used as the overarching approach to rigorously review literature. The outcome of this research will be a taxonomy of Living Lab theories, classified according to the emerged themes from grounded theory analysis. Additionally, the study will identify areas where Living Lab research needs to be theorized to support both researchers and practitioners in this area.

Con l’avvento del nuovo millennio, transizione verde e digitale, impatto sociale, etico ed economico, sono sempre di più assunti come pilatri indispensabili nella definizione di sistemi territoriali sostenibili. In questa ottica, però, è fondamentale applicare un approccio transdisciplinare che tenga presente delle trasformazioni e contaminazioni culturali e sociali delle comunità e delle persone che le vivono il territorio (Nicolescu, 1996). Infatti, se il fondamento dell’eredità culturale è la ‘generazione’ del territorio e dei paesaggi, la testimoniata restituzione di quanto ha dato e di quanto ha influito sull’identità di chi li vive ne è la ri-generazione in chiave sostenibile. Si comprende quindi come le moderne pratiche di innovazione sociale si debbano basare su molteplici dimensioni della sostenibilità, non solo quella territoriale, ma anche quelle economica, sociale, culturale e ambientale (Calvaresi, 2016). Questo studio esplorativo, indaga il ruolo dei Living Labs nella promozione dell'innovazione e della sostenibilità e presenta un caso pilota che il Centro LUPT dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, sta sperimentando nel contesto del Parco del Vulture.

Fact Sheet about the potential added value of a European Network of Agroecology Living Labs (LLs) and Research Infrastructures (RIs).

ALL-Ready fact sheet on criteria for becoming a member of a European Network of Living Labs and Research Infrastructures for Agroecology Transition.

Les Living Labs peuvent être initiés par la société civile pour pallier les manques de l’État-providence, mais cet outil est de plus en plus mobilisé par la puissance publique pour associer des usagers à la transformation des politiques publiques. L’article propose trois types de Living Labs et trois scénarios d’usage pour innover dans l’action publique, selon l’engagement des citoyens, des parties prenantes et des décideurs publics. Ce modèle est testé sur le cas du « Living Lab Jeunesse » de la Métropole de Lille (France), expérimentation financée sur appel à projets national pour co-construire avec les jeunes une politique sociale innovante à l’échelle d’un territoire métropolitain. Cette étude de cas montre comment les institutions publiques peuvent articuler les trois types de Living Lab sur le temps long pour transformer l’action publique étape par étape. Living Labs can be initiated by civil society to address the shortcomings of the Welfare State, but Living Labs are increasingly used by public authorities to involve external stakeholders in innovation for the transformation of public policies. The article proposes three types of Living Labs and three scenarios for innovating in public action, depending on the engagement of citizens, stakeholders, or public decision-makers. This model is tested for analyzing the Lille Metropole ″Living Lab for Youth″, in France, experimentation funded by a national call for projects to co-construct an innovative policy at a metropolitan level with young people. This case study shows how public institutions could articulate the three types of Living Lab on a long-term perspective to transform public action step by step.

The need for sustainable agricultural sector is growing rapidly due to climate changes. As there are still knowledge gaps and the need for innovations that support farmers in the sustainability transition, there is a need for determining priority research areas that are vital for the sustainable development of agriculture. The aim of our study was to derive a long-term vision of the desirable agricultural sector in Poland and prioritize research areas required to make Polish agriculture sustainable. We applied the living lab approach and, by conducting a backcasting exercise with the lab members, we identified a desirable vision of agriculture in Poland and the research areas needed to realize this vision. Using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Cumulative Voting (CV), we prioritized these research areas. Our results show that adaptation to climate changes is the most important area of research, having 38.6% of the total possible number of points using AHP and 29.7% in the case of CV. The analysis of the Polish strategic documents related to agriculture and agricultural research shows that, to some extent, these key research areas are already part of the national policy, but there is not sufficient funding and coordination to tackle all aspects of sustainability in agriculture.

In the sub-arctic climate with its extremely short growing seasons and land cover that is dominated by forest with very little agricultural land, the built-up area offers an untapped capacity when thinking about sites for food production. This accounts both for the existing and, given the dynamics of Northern Sweden in terms of development and population growth, the forthcoming building stock. Designing Cycles at 64° takes a multi-scalar approach addressing individual building typologies - and exemplarily for climate adaptation of northern climate zones - in the city of Umeå, Sweden with its diverse urban fabric as a whole. Expanding on Bengt Warne’s Naturhus (1974) and following examples, we anticipate new multifunctional architectural models applicable in various contexts and scales (see fig. 2). It further builds on the hypothesis that low-tech, low-cost landscape-based solutions are applicable in different societal contexts and therefore potentially contribute to overcoming segregation (Redeker, Jüttner, 2020). At 64° latitude, interior landscapes and their water-energy-food nexus offer interesting possibilities to extend growing seasons and diversify crops, and to reduce energy consumption while providing hybrid living spaces between inside and outside. By exploring greenhouse extensions and building envelopes (GEEs) as local passive architectural solutions, DC64° sets out to build productive interfaces between the private and public sector, academia - involving the disciplines of architecture and urban planning - urban water management, plant physiology and vertical gardening, as well as the general public in a living lab format. In this text we want to reflect on phase 0 of a living lab set up, reflect on the idea of a new vernacular for local food production in the sub-arctic and the context that defines this adaptive process and elaborate the outline of the methodology to be applied.

L’innovation sociale territoriale (IST) vise notamment à apporter des solutions innovantes systémiques et transformatrices aux enjeux sociaux complexes existants et émergents sur un territoire donné. L’une des stratégies de plus en plus implantées par les autorités publiques et les acteurs sociaux pour y parvenir est la mise en place d’instruments d’action publique (IAP) axés sur l’innovation en condition réelle tels que les Livings labs (LL). Le présent article apporte un éclairage sur la contribution des LL conçus comme IAP, à l’innovation sociale territoriale et à proposer un cadre conceptuel pour l’analyser et l’évaluer. À partir d’une revue exploratoire de la littérature, nous avons d’abord identifié les caractéristiques des LL en tant qu’IAP. Par la suite, nous avons examiné la pertinence des cadres conceptuels existants. Le cadre d’analyse de Belley et Saint-Pierre (2017b) a ainsi été identifié comme guide pertinent pour apprécier la contribution des LL sur un territoire. Il permet d’analyser le LL en tant qu’instrument d’action publique et met en évidence la logique d’intervention sous-jacente sur un territoire. En combinant ce cadre à une démarche d’évaluation évolutive, les professionnels seront mieux outillés. Territorial social innovation (IST) aims to provide innovative systemic and transformative solutions to existing and emerging complex social issues in a given territory. One of the strategies increasingly implemented by public authorities and social actors to achieve this is the establishment of public policy instruments (PPI) focused on innovation in real conditions such as Livings labs (LL). This article sheds light on the contribution of LL designed as PPI to territorial social innovation and to propose a conceptual framework to analyze and evaluate it. From an exploratory review of the literature, we first identified the characteristics of LL as PPI and then we examined the relevance of existing conceptual frameworks. Belley and Saint-Pierre’ s framework (2017b) was thus identified as a relevant guide to assess the contribution of LLs in a territory. It makes it possible to analyze the LL as a PPI and highlights the underlying logic of intervention in a territory. By combining this framework with a developmental evaluation approach, professionals will be better equipped.

Comme plusieurs régions périphériques à faible densité au Québec, la MRC du Domaine-du‑Roy, située au Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, fait face à un vieillissement accéléré de sa population depuis les 15 dernières années. Le transport collectif constitue l’un des leviers favorisant le vieillissement actif et le maintien des aînés dans leur communauté. Afin de mieux comprendre les besoins des aînés en matière de mobilité, un chantier de réflexion, sous forme de laboratoire vivant, a été mis en place et a permis de regrouper l’ensemble des intervenants concernés par la mobilité des aînés. Si les retombées des laboratoires vivants sont largement reconnues dans la littérature, l’évaluation de l’impact de ce genre de démarche du point de vue du participant reste encore à faire. L’objectif du présent article consiste donc à évaluer la pertinence de la démarche de laboratoire vivant du point de vue des participants d’une part, comme une méthode efficace d’implantation d’un service territorialisé et, d’autre part, comme un outil de développement territorial. Les résultats témoignent de la reconnaissance, par les participants, de l’apport de la démarche à la dynamique de développement territorial de la MRC. Toutefois, des questionnements subsistent sur le potentiel réel d’autonomisation des acteurs du territoire en lien avec la problématique du transport collectif dans la MRC. Like other rural regions with low population density, the RCM Le Domaine-du-Roy, located in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, also struggling with population aging since the 2000s. Because it helps elderly to remain in their collectivity, collective transportation is identified as one of the solutions for active aging. For a better understanding of the elders needs for transportation, a living lab (LL) took place in the RCM and assemble all the speakers concerned by the subject. If the effectiveness of the LL is globally recognized by authors, the evaluation of this kind of mobilization by the participant is still to be done. The objective of the present article is to evaluate the relevant of the LL methodology in regard of the efficiency of the method to implement local public services and to promote territorial development. The results pointed out a real contribution of this kind of method for the RCM development. However, a number of questions remain, specifically on the potential for speakers’ empowerment in the public transport governance in the RCM Le Domaine-du-Roy.

Work package 2 (WP2) focuses on the assessment and analysis of living labs (LL) and research infrastructures (RI) in the past and present independent of the scale and place at which they operate. To support the development of LLs and RIs in Europe, a set of indicators for the successful transition of agricultural production systems towards sustainability is identified and will be employed for evaluating the respective infrastructures and functionality of LL and RI. This set of indicators will be linked to opportunities to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDG) through agroecology and LL and RI. In order to identify skills, tools and methods that are promising drivers for future agroecosystem LL and RI, WP2 has elaborated on the two concepts of Living Labs and Agroecology Territories. For both concepts, trait and indicator grids were developed which are used for a more comprehensive data and information acquisition with the aim of getting representative samples of LL and AET across Europe. Based on the first steps taken in the two tasks and the preliminary analyses undertaken, the following conclusions can be drawn: The two concepts of Agroecology Territories and Living Labs are both related to agroecological transformation of production and sustainable food systems. They aim at encouraging policy making towards schemes for innovation in natural resource governance and sustainable rural livelihoods. While the trait catalog for LL and the grid of transition processes for AET have been designed with concertation between TI and ISARA, the need for different indicators to characterize and assess both concepts became apparent. Although the two concepts cannot completely be merged, some place-based LL could be considered as AET such as Agroecology Living Labs and some AET can be considered as Living Labs if they include research infrastructures and networks, for instance through participatory research programs. The trait-- and indicator-based approaches of T2.1 and T2.3 will have a positive impact on the understanding of the stakeholders, providing a deeper understanding of the important functional and structural components of LL and AET. They will further help identifying initiatives that do not consider themselves as LL or AET and will help in placing those initiatives into a general framework of infrastructures accelerating the transition towards sustainable production and food systems. When successful, both concepts will be used for informing the creation of the European Partnership an Agroecology and the approaches of trait- and indicator based assessments of LL and AET will disseminated to groups of stakeholders at the European as well as national level and engagement in application of the approach by stakeholders will be supported.

Resumo Habitações Sociais (HS), em geral, não atendem às necessidades dos usuários e aos requisitos de conforto, gerando insatisfação e necessidade de reformas e melhorias. Intervenções nesse tipo de empreendimento requerem colaboração entre diversas partes interessadas, os quais possuem diferentes perspectivas e objetivos. Esse tipo de iniciativa deve buscar uma visão compartilhada entre as partes no desenvolvimento de soluções e na tomada de decisão. Nesta pesquisa, a abordagem dos Living Labs (LLs) foi adotada como estratégia para desenvolver melhorias em habitações existentes de forma integrada e colaborativa. Este artigo apresenta os resultados de um estudo que objetivou identificar oportunidadesde melhorias em habitações sociais com o envolvimento direto dos usuários, pesquisadores e agentes públicos, durante a pandemia da Covid-19.Os resultados demonstram que a entrevista reflexiva, com o apoio de atividades complementares, foi uma ferramenta adequada não só para a identificação de oportunidades de melhoras, como para a criação de vínculo e confiança entre os participantes na primeira fase de implementação do LL. Abstract Social housing (SH) generally meets neither users’ needs nor comfort requirements. That leads to dissatisfaction and the need for renovations and improvements. Interventions in this type of housing require collaboration among different stakeholders, who have diverse perspectives and goals. This type of initiative should seek a shared understanding among the parties in the development of solutions and in the decision-making process. The Living Lab (LL) approach was adopted as a strategy to develop upgrades in existing housing in an integrated and collaborative way. This paper presents the results of an empirical study that aimed to identify opportunities to improve social housing with the direct involvement of users, researchers and public agents, during the Covid-19 pandemic. The results show that the reflexive interview technique, with the support of complementary activities, was an appropriate tool not only to identify upgrading opportunities, but also to create a bond and trust among participants in the first phase of the LL effort.

Focus report as result of the experts work of IEA - EBC - ANNEX 74: Competition and Living Labs, 2018-2022 The purpose of the report is to make knowledge available about the after-competition use of Solar Decathlon projects as living labs to those who are intending to participate in a living lab competition and those who are on the way to set up their own living lab. The report should allow a compact overview for future organizers and teams about successfully implemented living labs. Main source was an in-depth analysis of former editions of the Solar Decathlon, mainly the European editions, but also case studies from the US and Africa, together with results from experts’ interviews which summarize the stories and experiences behind the projects.

As renewable energy sources are spreading, the problems of energy usage, transport and storage arise more frequently. In order that the performance of energy producing units from renewable sources, which have a relatively low efficiency, should not be decreased further, and to promote sustainable energy consumption solutions, a living lab conception was elaborated in this project. At the pilot site, the produced energy (by PV panels, gas turbines/engines) is stored in numerous ways, including hydrogen production. The following uses of hydrogen are explored: (i) feeding it into the national natural gas network, (ii) selling it at a H-CNG (compressed natural gas) filling station, (iii) using it in fuel cells to produce electricity. This article introduces the overall implementation plan, which can serve as a model for the hybrid energy communities to be established in the future.

While various forms of smart home technology have been available for decades, they have yet to achieve widespread adoption. Although they have risen in popularity during recent years, the general public continue to rate smart home devices as overly complex compared to their benefits. This article reports the results of an eight-month study into the effects of training on smart home technology adoption. Building upon the results of a previous study, and using the same living laboratory approach, we studied the effects of training on the attitudes of a group of residents toward use of smart home technology. Results show that training influences those attitudes toward smart home technology, including increased confidence in future use, and increased actual use of more complex smart home features. Results also indicate that users tended to seek out other users rather than training materials for advice, and that privacy concerns were not a deterrent to using smart home devices.

In museums, exhibition content focuses mostly on cultural heritage’s historical values and functions, but doing so tends to limit visitors’ interest and immersion. To counter this limitation, the study developed an experiential media art exhibition fusing bronze mirrors’ traditional production technology and modern conservation science. First, for the exhibition system, scientific cultural heritage contents were projected on the three-dimensional (3D) printed bronze mirror through interactions between motion recognition digital information display (DID) and the projector. Then, a scenario of 17 missions in four stages (production process, corrosion mechanism, scientific analysis and diagnosis, and conservation treatment and restoration) was prepared according to the temporal spectrum. Additionally, various media art effects and interaction technologies were developed, so visitors could understand and become immersed in bronze mirrors’ scientific content. A user test was evaluated through the living lab, reflecting generally high levels of satisfaction (90.2 points). Qualitative evaluation was generally positive, with comments such as “easy to understand and useful as the esoteric science exhibition was combined with media art” (16.7%), “wonderful and interesting” (11.7%), and “firsthand experience was good” (9.2%). By combining an esoteric science exhibition centered on principles and theories with visual media art and by developing an immersive directing method to provide high-level exhibition technology, the exhibition induced visitors’ active participation. This exhibition’s content can become an important platform for expanding universal museum exhibitions on archaeology, history, and art into conservation science.