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 …

Bij het Erfgoedlab Hanze ontmoeten de erfgoedpraktijk, onderwijs en studenten elkaar. Er worden opdrachten beschikbaar gesteld (cases en kennisvragen) en er worden excursies en lezingen georganiseerd. In deze bundel staan de projecten, activiteiten, opbrengsten en publicaties beschreven.

Kick-off Proeftuin Toegankelijke Digitale Zorg. Nationaal Programma Groningen

Bij het Erfgoedlab Hanze ontmoeten de erfgoedpraktijk, onderwijs en studenten elkaar. Er worden opdrachten beschikbaar gesteld (cases en kennisvragen) en er worden excursies en lezingen georganiseerd. In deze bundel staan de projecten, activiteiten, opbrengsten en publicaties beschreven.

Key takeaways from the project underscore the importance of fostering long-term collaborations between technical experts, communities, and institutional partners. By integrating technical innovation with human-centred design, the SUSTENANCE project has not only advanced renewable energy adoption but …

Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and augmented/virtual reality come with many ethical and societal questions. In order to develop applications based on these technologies responsibly, businesses, governments and knowledge institutions are increasingly working together, and sometimes …

Living Labs are ‘open innovation ecosystems’, offering unique opportunities for conducting scientific experiments ‘in the wild’. Yet, Living Labs also support the generation of other, informal, types of knowledge: often tacit and difficult to capture and share, acquired outside of rigorous academic research …

Municipalities collaborate with citizens to find locally adapted ways to deal with the energy transition. Industry clusters work together with regional governments and knowledge institutions to develop and test new sustainable materials. Universities co-create with students and industry to find a more …

What are the lessons that applied design researchers can take away from this book? What suggestions and recommendations can be derived from the experiences presented in the preceding chapters? On the one hand, it is clear that working with Living Labs offers unique opportunities to address some of society’s …

The boundary object we consider is a boundary spanning practice tied to a specific location, namely the open lab – hence the title ‘The Open Lab as a Boundary Object’. We approach the question if an open lab as a place that can operate as a boundary object that fosters intersectionality, malleability, …