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Urban Living Lab Framework
Abdolrasoul Habibipour
Information Systems, Luleå Tekniska Universitet
Botnia Living Lab
April 2019
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Presentation Outline
What is a Living Lab
Theoretical areas
What is an Urban Living Lab?
What an Urban Living Lab is NOT ?
Urban Living Lab Framework
Key components of an Urban Living Labs
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What is a Living Lab?
“A Living Lab is a user-centric innovation approach, built on
realistic activities and research where all relevant partners are
involved in open processes, with objective to generate sustainable
values for Living Lab partners and stakeholders”
(Bergvall-Kåreborn et al. 2009)
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Theoretical Areas
Open Innovation
Socio-technical systems theory
Participatory Design
Innovation management
Stakeholder Theory
Innovation Networks
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FormIT Innovation Process
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Why Urban Living Labs?
Climate change
Urban complexity
Societal challenges
Citizens quality of life
Fostering the innovation development
Make urban areas more adaptable to the citizens need
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Urban Living Lab definition
“An Urban Living Lab (ULL) is a local place for innovative (nature-
based) solutions that aims to solve urban challenges and contribute
to long-term sustainability by actively and openly co-constructing
solutions with citizens and other stakeholders”
Source: Chronéer, D., Ståhlbröst, A., & Habibipour, A. 2019. Urban Living Labs: Towards an Integrated Understanding of their Key Components.
Technology Innovation Management Review, 9(3): 50-62.
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What an ULL is NOT? (1)
If the solution is not co-created with various stakeholders and citizens
If the citizens are not actively engaged from early stage of innovation development
If it doesn’t integrate social and technical aspect of innovation development
If the innovation (NBS) is not being designed, developed and tested in real-life context
If it doesn’t supports multi-stakeholder engagement
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What an ULL is NOT? (2)
If it doesn’t strengthen democracy and citizen influence
If it doesn’t provide new insights
If it doesn’t provide a medium for co-production and sharing knowledge
An ULL is not a testbed
An ULL is not a network of infrastructures and services
An ULL doesn’t necessarily need a building or a physical place
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(Juujärvi & Pesso,
2013)
(Veeckman, 2015) (Voytenko et al., 2016) (Scholl & Kemp, 2016) (Steen & van Bueren,
2017)
(Steen & van Bueren,
2017)
Key features of an
urban living lab
A technology-
assisted research
environment
Co-creating with
citizens
Actively engaging
citizens in urban
planning processes
Facilitating citizen
participation
Facilitating co-
creation processes
Empowering citizens
Geographical
embeddedness
Experimentation and
learning
Participation and user
involvement
Evaluation and
refinement
Leadership and
ownership
Hybrid organizational
forms
Learning environments
Multi-stakeholder
settings
Co-creative
experimentation
Multi-disciplinary
approach
Research
Development
Testing
Implementation
Commercialization
Aim: innovation and
learning
Activities: co-
creation and decision
power, and feedback
and iteration
Participants: public,
private, users,
knowledge
institutions
Context: real-life use
context
Key identifiers Environment
Activities
Approach
Principles
Actions
Components
Contextual
Components
Approach
Contextual
Activities Activities
Components
Contextual
Defining elements of an ULL
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Urban Living Lab Framework
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Governance and management
The way that an ULL in the strategic or operational level is managed and organized
ULL activities must be supported by
local governments
decision makers in the cities
politicians
Take into account
ULL vision and scope
Risks management
Closing the project
Knowledge sharing
Dissemination
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Financing and Business models
A sustainable business model that creates, delivers, and captures value for all ULL stakeholders
Take into account
Is the business model clearly defined?
Is it appropriate to support long-term commitment?
How the ULL maintenance plan looks like?
Who are the financers? And what do they bring?
Who will pay you?
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Urban context
The physical setting in which the NBS will be implemented
City context
Street
District
City
Take into account
Place
Ownership
Physical infrastructure
Technical infrastructure
Future plans
Responsibility
Activities
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Nature-based solution
Key characteristics of nature-based solutions in ULL
Be innovative
Address multiple sustainability challenges
Real-world situations
Using nature
Take into account
Aim
Value (what and for whom)
Who will be involved
Activities
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Partners including citizens
Quadruple-helix approach with different roles
Affectee (passive)
Experimenter
Innovator
Lead participants
Tester
Take into account
Objective to contribute
Motivation
Degree of involvement
Activity type
Membership model
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Approach and method
Quadruple-helix approach
Supportive tools
data collection and analysis methods
Engagement methods
Take into account
Open and inclusive
Explorative
Responsible and sustainable
Real life context
Value creating
Experimental
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ICT-infrastructure
Existing and desirable ICT tools and infrastructures that support ULL activities
Hardware
Software
Data
Network
Take into account
What is it?
Who uses it?
Where is it located?
Why do they use it?
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Abdolrasoul Habibipour
Information Systems, Luleå Tekniska Universitet
User Engagement Expert, Botnia Living Lab
Abdolrasoul.Habibipour@ltu.se
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Welcome to this session
I am PhD researcher at LTU, User engagement expert at Botnia LL
Welcome to this session
I am PhD researcher at LTU, User engagement expert at Botnia LL
Open Innovation
Open processes, business models
Socio-technical systems theory
The interaction between humans and technology
Participatory Design
Co-creation, Lead-user innovation, Crowdsourcing
Innovation management
Methods and approaches to manage innovation (LLs are one of the more recent approaches)
Stakeholder Theory
Who should be involved, who are involved, how is the relation shaped, etc
Innovation Networks
Quadruple-helix approach
This is what we have for method and how we use it. (Iterative process)
Explore: In this phase needs, dreams and ideas are explored taking the strengths in a particular situation as starting point for new opportunities.
Create: In this phase concepts, prototypes and innovations are co-created, designed and developed.
Implement: In this phase concepts, prototypes and innovations are implemented and tested in real-world contexts
Evaluate: in this phase concepts, prototypes and innovations are evaluated with a formative approach, looking for ways to improve
Nowadays, 50% of population are living in urban areas
Here the urban context is more highlighted
All highlighted words are important and should be included
In order to know what is an ULL, it is important to know what is not an ULL?
Citizens are not factor but actor
ULLs are not only social environments and not only technical
ULL is not a physical Laboratory, but the whole city is a place for ideation, experimentation, evaluation
If the process is closed and not all relevant stakeholders are involved
People morally and ethically have the right to influence their destiny
If the solution is not innovative
All stakeholders produce the solution together
The user should be involved in all stages not only in test and not in controlled condition
The aim of presenting this table is to show that ULL concept is still not very clear
Several studies have tried to define ULL
These are a mixture of everything. Approach, aims, components, activities, benefits in different level.
We should start with the key component then we know what must be included
We don’t agree with all of these categorization because of they do not include all important features
There are seven Key components
Many project called themselves as ULL are not ULL because they don’t include all components
These two first components are of importance in ULL comparing to LL
We have talked with the cities who have their own ULL or plan to run their ULL
According to the feedback that we got from the cities ULL must be supported by
What is ULL vision and scope?
What risks are associated with the process?
How is the process for closing the project?
Has the knowledge sharing process been successful?
Are the results disseminated?
Key stakeholders:
City representatives
Decision makers
Sponsors
Key activities:
Provide new product-development processes
Provide proficiency in practices (e.g. agile development), methods, and techniques.
Coordination of innovation process
Process of developing a good understanding of user preferences
Key resources:
Development and test methodologies
User knowledge
Business knowledge
Technical knowledge
User connection:
Access to relevant user populations
Channels to reach users
Governance:
Organisation type
Management
Responsibility
Accountability
Where is the physical setting?
Who owns the setting? E.g. who can stop the process
Who has access to it? Is it open or restricted?
Which physical infrastructure is available? Streets, electricity, local transports, etc
Which technical infrastructure is there available in the context? E.g. fiber, wifi, 4G, sensors
What are the conditions that needs to be considered? E.g. damp, pollution, forest, etc
What are the future plans for the context? Are there any and who has them?
Who has the responsibility over the context? E.g. physical security
Which activities does the environment currently support and for whom?
What is the innovation?
What is the aim of the innovation (what value does it create and for whom)?
What will be experimented with?
Who can experiment with the NBS?
How can they experiment with it, which activities will they do?
Who will benefit from the experiment?
How will the results from the experiment be used?
What kind of partner: Quadruple helix?
How to motivate them?
How to keep them?
Where to find them? NGO, Students, Public channels
How to engage them? Participatory sensing, Focus group, Brainstorming, Serious games
How to motivate and keep them engaged? Winning the prize, Monetary incentives, Learning, Technology in return
It is always quadruple helix approach that includes: Supportive tools, data collection and analysis methods, Engagement methods
You should take into account key principles of ULL should be considered in different phases
Explore
Is it based on open calls?
Is it disseminated in public channels?
Does it stimulate creativity and support generating new ideas?
Create/Design
Is the value co-creation in collaboration between different stakeholders in design process is considered?
Implement
Is the context that the innovation planned to be implemented a real-life context?
Evaluate
Is the test plan open for citizens to participate?
What ethical considerations during the test and evaluation process need to be handled?
The last component is ICT-infrastructure
What HW and SW are available and should be used