Abstract
Urban Living Labs are development environments that
integrate residents and other stakeholders to develop and
test new solutions in their daily life. The users of the
new services or solutions are active partners in the
whole development process, which happens in the real
urban context. Urban Living Labs utilize various
co-design methods for understanding the needs, generating
solution ideas, presenting ideas and evaluating the
solutions in practice. In addition, citizen participation
methods are used for participation in decision making and
taking action.
This report presents the Urban Living Lab methods used in
the project. The aims, set-up and outcome of the methods
are presented and suitability of the methods for the
modernisation and social upgrading actions in the project
is discussed. This report focuses, however, on the
participatory methods separately. A more detailed
evaluation and analysis of the living lab approach, its
suitability and impacts, including also the utilisation
and suitability of the used participatory methods as a
part of it, is presented in project report 4.1/4.2
Evaluation of the Urban Living Labs in Alby and
Peltosaari.
Original language | English |
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Publisher | European Commission EC |
Number of pages | 28 |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
MoE publication type | D4 Published development or research report or study |