Date: April 11 and 12, 2024

Location: Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden

Introductory event: April 10, 2024

Location: Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) Dresden

Conference concept

The conference " Living Labs - Experimental Spaces for the Path to a Sustainable Society" aims to continue the discourse on living lab research and practice. The transition to a sustainable society requires creativity, courage and openness to leave the beaten track. Where and how can real-world laboratories create experimental spaces for designing and testing ideas for the future that promote the transition to sustainable cities and neighborhoods, villages and landscapes as well as seas and rivers? The conference is dedicated to conceptual, methodological and practical questions of research and design in living labs. It serves the dialog between researchers and practitioners, transformers and urban and regional developers and enables an exchange of perspectives and experiences from research and practice. The conference creates a space for dialogue, in particular to deal with the location and spatial references of living labs, their systematic documentation and knowledge transfer as well as the anchoring of living labs as a research and governance approach. It aims to be an invitation to reflect together and bring together findings, while at the same time establishing new partnerships through living labs and shaping the change towards a culture of sustainability.

We look forward to your contribution, which you can submit till December 10, 2023 on the following topics and choose from four different formats (article, speed talk, poster or dialog/workshop):

1. urban real-world experiments for sustainable consumer cultures

2. living labs in rural areas

3. living labs in marine areas

4. conflicts in living labs

5. learning, reflection and inner culture of sustainability

6. living labs as a transdisciplinary research format

7. impact measurement of and in living labs

8. living labs as political-regulatory test spaces

9. open thematic strand

Further information can also be found on the conference website.

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