by Birgit Fingerle Real-world laboratories or living labs have become increasingly beloved over the last five years. They create newly structured forms of cooperation between science- and society-based actors – as well as open space for research, learning and design in which new ideas can be thought through, experienced and tested. Usually, they refer to a specific geographical area such as a city or a city district. Real-world laboratories transfer the laboratory concept from the natural sciences to the analysis of societal and political processes. They also present a research concept. Their focus is placed on mutual learning in an […]