Welcome to a digital workshop 5 december, bringing together urban actors working with experimental methods such as urban living labs – the workshop aims to exchange experiences in urban transformation, discuss new approaches and strategies, and offer opportunities for international twinning.
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Urban areas are key to build robustness to deal with the bunch of crises and uncertainty of the 21st century. For that reason, renewed efforts are required to address the stresses and challenges with innovative approaches in cities and to enhance the capacities of municipalities, urban governance and society to act and therefore to enhance the robustness of urban systems to stress and disruptions caused by phenomena caused by the climate, biodiversity and socio-economic crises. The urgency to reach agreed goals and significantly change human activities away from linear models of exploitation towards processes within planetary boundaries has never been more pressing.
Urban Living Labs
Success will depend on the ability to bring research results, new governance innovation, technologies, approaches, tools, processes, policy recommendations, etc., into action in all our cities and form multi-stakeholder alliances for change. In that sense, Urban Living Labs provide the experimental settings, to test and co-create solutions and approaches among different stakeholders.
This workshop will bring together urban actors (local public administration, researchers, innovators, grassroots organisations, etc.) working in and with experimental methods such as urban living labs to exchange approaches, similarities, and differences.
Purpose
The workshop aims to exchange experiences in urban transformation, discuss new approaches and strategies, and offer opportunities for international twinning. More specifically for urban living labs, the workshop aims to
- provide a platform for exchange and networking among the Latin American Urban Living Lab community and European participants and actors in this field,
- discuss experiences with and impact of urban living lab approaches in urban contexts, and
- establish an environment for cross-continental learning from experiences and knowledge(s) generated in urban living labs.
The results of the workshop will be used for future activities and events with a focus on Latin America in the scope of the Driving Urban Transitions Partnership (DUT) and the ERA-NET Urban Transformation Capacities (ENUTC).
Agenda
15:00 Welcome note
15:05-15.15 Input on urban living labs – Linking global ambitions with local actions
15:15-16:00 Pitches (à 7 minutes) by projects/initiatives working with urban living labs in Latin America and Europe
16:00-16:10 Short break
16:10-16:15 Introduction to workshop: Learning from urban living labs across continents
16:15-16:45 Workshop: Learning from urban living labs across continents
16:45-16:55 Wrap-up
16:55-17:00 Closing and next steps
Global times
15.00-17.00 CET – Brussels Time
11.00-13.00 BRT – Brasilia Time
09.00-11.00 PET – Lima Time
Contact
Janine Halder – janine.halder@ffg.at