Samenvatting

We are pleased to present this Book of Proceedings following the international conference “Innovating Health & Daily Life through Living Labs”, co-organised by the Dutch Empathic Environment Living Labs (DEEL Academy) and the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL). The two-day event took place in May 2025 in Başakşehir, Istanbul, and brought together over 100 participants from 14 countries, including researchers, designers, policy makers, healthcare professionals, and Living Lab practitioners.
The conference explored how health and wellbeing can be reimagined through spatial, technological, and social innovation, grounded in inclusive and participatory practices.
This volume features 41 scholarly contributions—27 peer-reviewed full papers and 14 extended abstracts—from authors representing 17 countries. Topics range from co-creation and care ethics to AI in healthcare, empathic technologies, and healthy living environments.
Three key themes emerged throughout the conference:
Health as a systemic phenomenon: Health was positioned not only as a biomedical issue, but as deeply embedded in our physical, social, and digital environments.
Co-creation as a foundational principle: Participation was treated not as an add-on, but as a structural and ethical basis for innovation, with emphasis on inclusion, trust, and shared authorship.
Empathic technologies: Smart systems were valued not for their novelty, but for their ability to quietly support autonomy, dignity, and care.
Hosted by the Başakşehir Living Lab and supported by local government and partners, the conference highlighted Living Labs as essential infrastructures for systemic change. The contributions in this book reflect a shared commitment to real-world complexity, showing that innovation is not only technical, but also cultural, emotional, and ethical.
We thank all authors, reviewers, speakers, organisers, and partners for making this event possible. We hope this book will serve both as a record of what was shared and as a catalyst for what’s to come.