Strengthen your understanding and capacity to start a living lab process in your community
Now more than ever, at the local level, communities are confronted with complex ecological and societal issues that require a transformation in the way we collaborate and innovate.
Living Labs have become increasingly recognized as powerful innovation devices to achieve this, due to their unique features:
• Based on a coalition of public, private, academic and citizen partners
• A common need and desire for innovation within the communities in which they are anchored
• A pooling of knowledge, resources, and infrastructures
• The piloting of experiments in real-life conditions with citizens as the lead
• A common objective: to understand the challenges of adopting innovations to promote compatibility with their users and the environments in which they are deployed
There are many ways to innovate or collaborate with users, some of which can be deployed relatively quickly and on an ad hoc basis. However, from a systemic change perspective, the living labs have the advantage of simultaneously both being deployed over the long term and hosting ongoing experimentation projects within the same community. These two distinctive elements of living labs require specific governance, management, and facilitation practices.
This virtual workshop, offered in collaboration with the Maison de l'innovation sociale (MIS) and Le Laboratoire en innovation (LLio), will provide you with a better understanding of how Living Labs work, an appreciation of their ability to adapt to your innovation objectives and context, and practical advice to support their deployment. Want to learn more about Living Labs? Read Why a living lab might be the right approach for community and territorial innovation from MIS.