EmbedterLabs
Better Embedded Labs for More Synergistic Sustainable Urban Transformation Planning
This project deals with a key deficiency of current urban planning: that the context-specific lessons of Urban
Living Labs (ULLs) are poorly translated into citywide, integrated, transformative policy implications, leaving them having limited impact. To do so, it answers two questions: 1) how to orient labs and experiments to inform broader learning processes, and 2) how to align laboratory insights with established policy mixes to enable transformation? To achieve this, a novel approach will be developed, tested and refined through retrospective analysis of experiments in Gdansk, Stockholm and Maastricht followed by action research through ULL experiments in each city. The experiments will focus on mobility infrastructure and public space, key dimensions of urban sustainability. These activities will improve the learning processes of experiments and accordingly support the creation of transformative capacity for urban policy makers.
Project period: 2022-2025
Participating universities: Maastricht University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Uppsala University, Lund University, Gdansk University of Technology
Collaboration: City of Stockholm, Sweco Architects
Funding: Swedish Energy Agency / JPI Urban Europe