Urban Living Lab Summit

During the Urban Living Lab Summit experts and practitioners will present their knowledge on living labs and activate the participants in co-creative workshops, showing and experiencing if and how to use Living labs for solving urban challenges.

Transitioning to a sustainable, just, and stable society is necessary, on an unprecedented scale and speed. In many innovation projects, scientific programs and municipal organizations, (urban) living labs are achieving good results. But are these Labs well understood and well implemented? Are they solving the problems better, cheaper, more sustainable? What are actionable prescriptions?

In this first edition of the Urban Living Lab Summits we take a deep dive into one specific methodology: the AMS Urban Living Lab ‘Way of Working’. We offer an interactive program where presenters show their knowledge while interacting with the audience. The co-creative workshops in the afternoon also shows the development of the Living Lab Marineterrein.

The questions addressed in the Summit are:

• What is a Urban Living Lab?
• How to design a Urban Living Lab?
• How to measure impact of Living Labs?
• How to collaborate within Living Labs?
• How to learn in a Living Lab?

In co-creation we want to increase knowledge and common understanding, refine the challenges and define the outlines of an action agenda.

Preliminary Program:

9:30 Welcome

• Prof. Arjan van Timmeren (Scientific Director AMS Institute)
• Leendert Verhoef (AMS Institute)

9:45 What is a Living Lab?

• Prof. Ellen van Bueren (TU Delft/AMS Institute): Overview of Urban Experimentation
• Michael Bossert (International Sustainable Campus Network): The University Living Labs Canvas

10:45 How to learn in a Living Lab?

• Arjen Zegwaard / Nina Bohm (MSc MADE), Learning in Living Labs
• Melchior Kanyamesha (CTO Amsterdam), The Living Roadmap

11:45 How to design a Living lab?

• Dr. Niko Alexander Schäpke (Chalmers University): Reflection: Success factors and related design features of real-world labs from a Baden-Wuerttemberg perspective
• Andrea Ueberbacher (AMS Institute) / Marcin Dabrowski (TU Delft) / Prof. Roberto Rocco (TU Delft): Urban Living Labs and Metropolitan Policy Labs for Spatial Justice
• Els Leclerc, Living Labs and the New Democracy

12:45 Lunch

13:45 How to collaborate in a Living Lab?

• Workshop I: Marineterrein as Living Lab (tour and co-creation) (Anikka Fulop / xxx)
• Workshop II: The (Urban) Living Lab Canvas: Build your own Lab

15:45 How to create impact with living Labs?

• Plenary discussion / action agenda setting

16:30 Closure

For whom?
City administrators and policy makers, Students, Change makers, Action Researchers, Industry and Living Lab Practitioners.

Please visit the AMS Institute website for more information and to buy tickets.