Experimental learning and innovation environments, such as living labs, field labs, and urban innovation labs, are increasingly used to connect multi-stakeholders in envisioning, creating, experimenting, learning, and trying out novel responses to diverse societal challenges. With designers facilitating …

· As a platform for interdisciplinary applied research in the community setting, the living lab model offers a unique environment for the imagination of tourism interventions that can recast the activity as a force for good. Mandating a quadruple helix ecosystem, living labs encourage participation …

Co-creation in a quintuple helix, the art of including natural environments of society in a living lab that includes different types of stakeholders and monitoring the quality of this process of co-creation. In the last decade, co-creation has not only become a widely used concept in academic discourses …

This study explores the intent of designers involved in design for sustainability and how responsible innovation can be collectively implemented. To do so, a case study using situational analysis was conducted with graduates of the Fabricademy program: a 6-month program on textiles and new technologies …

The main goal of Work Package 2 of the Field Lab Autonomous Sailing Technology (FAST) project is to realize an autonomous shipping platform to be used for research and education purposes. To attain this goal, the HZ University of Applied Sciences teamed with its main project partner in this journey, …

Het ene na het andere nieuwsbericht over hitteoverlast, droogte en wateroverlast volgt elkaar in rap tempo op. En vooral in de versteende (binnen)stad worden die effecten het meest gevoeld. Van oudsher zijn bomen een perfecte oplossing voor veel van deze uitdagingen omdat ze weinig ruimte innemen op …

De meeste mensen kennen de robotstofzuiger wel. Dit apparaat lijkt een ideale oplossing bij de hulp in het huishouden. Maar welke uitdagingen brengt een robotstofzuiger met zich mee als deze door thuiszorgorganisaties wordt gebruikt in de ondersteuning die zij bij cliënten leveren? Iedereen weet dat …

Cooperation is more likely when individuals can choose their interaction partner. However, partner choice may be detrimental in unequal societies, in which individuals differ in available resources and productivity, and thus in their attractiveness as interaction partners. Here we experimentally examine …

This literature review applies Wenger’s community of practice framework as a theoretical lens to generate insight about the complex collaborative processes of living labs. The authors explore this model with insights from the literature on labs and then set out to understand higher educational living …