Living labs KES MCCORMICK Assistant Professor Lund University Sweden International Fellow Melbourne University Australia

Urban growth, changing climate and sustainable development Living labs as catalysts for thriving neighbourhoods

Defining Living Labs? Experiments in real-life settings User involvement and co-creation Public-private-people partnerships Useful knowledge and visible interventions Addressing specific local needs Creating platforms for visioning processes

ENoLL Member Map Europe, then the world – Diversity of activities – Living labs not in network, not using term

Oxford Road Corridor Manchester, UK City of Manchester collaborating with 2 universities, 5 hospitals and local business and community. Affordable and resilient low carbon economy. Testing energy, communications and transportation technologies, and monitoring impacts.

Western Harbour Development Malmö, Sweden Ambitious goals – Design competitions – Collaborative models

Sweden Öresund Urban Tranisition ( ) –5 municipalities and 5 universities in Denmark and Sweden –Planning, financing, building and collaborating Malmö Innovation Platform ( ) –City of Malmö, 3 universities, 30 businesses –Renovating and redesigning existing buildings Study on living labs in Europe – 10 literature cases and 4 empirical cases

Australia The Low Carbon Living CRC brings together key property, planning, engineering and policy organisations with leading research groups to develop new social, technological and policy tools for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in cities. Projects across the key areas of buildings, districts and communities. Applying the living labs concept in projects.

Approach and arena Product Living Labs –More control, shorter, smaller –Products, services, technologies Urban Living Labs –More facilitation, longer, larger –Geographical space (buildings, streets, campuses, waterways, precincts) Real-life experimentation User co-creation Collaborative efforts Cycles of research Novel business models Learning by doing Learning by networking

Shake up an urban system!