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Living Labs hold immense potential in tackling urban challenges and building urban resilience, but measuring their impact remains a difficult task. ➡️ Learn how to evaluate Living Labs impact through the engaging #OLLD24 workshop "Unveiling the Unseen Value - Maximizing Living Labs Impact and Policy Influence.” Read more below and register now to the OpenLivingLab Days 2024! 🗣: Tom Van Nieuwenhove, Ben Robaeyst 🔜 #ENoLL #CityofGhent #UrbanResilience #LivingLab #ImpactAssessment

🌍🔍 Living Lab processes can seem unclear to both practitioners and academics, despite their promise in fostering urban resilience and tackling complex urban challenges. #LLs facilitate collaborations, generate and share knowledge, and drive urban transitions. However, their long-term value, funding, and scalability remain uncertain, often due to differing stakeholder expectations. Therefore, a strong impact assessment is essential to understand how effective Living Labs are. 🎯🚀 Join us in Timisoara for the #OpenLivingLab Days 2024 workshop: "Unveiling the Unseen Value - Maximizing Living Labs Impact and Policy Influence” and explore the Living Lab Assessment Method (LLAM), developed by #GhentLivingLab with the City of Ghent. It provides a comprehensive and context-sensitive framework for evaluating how Living Labs generate value in local urban ecosystems: https://bit.ly/4cvAQT6 🌆

Something completely new from our #innovation kitchen: #MetaHeritage! :) The project is reimagining how #regions build #identity, shape and strengthen their #brand(s), and position themselves for growth in a digital world. By integrating #heritage with cutting-edge technology, we’re transforming how regions connect, grow and attract #investment. The project is breaking new ground with #innovative, out-of-the-box #strategies, creating fresh #business opportunities and #networking pathways for heritage-driven corporate brands. In particular, the project is testing a unique blend of #HeritageRoutes and the #Metaverse to foster sustainable #tourism, increase interregional investment, enhance capacity building, and drive #value creation through active collaboration among stakeholders — from regional #clusters and long-lasting #companies to digital providers and public entities. Therefore, this initiative goes beyond tourism; it’s about building sustainable, high-impact opportunities that showcase each region’s unique strengths and identity. The #MetaHeritage project is tailored to build capacities and support diverse regional needs, focusing on: - Less developed regions: #NorthernPortugal and #Azores - Transit regions: #Thuringia, #Saxony and #Galicia - More developed regions: #EmiliaRomagna, #Brussels and #Vienna The project partners are: Digital Humanities Juniorprofessur Universität Jena / Heritage Innovation / Nucleus Jena / Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Time Machine Organisation, CRUSOE. The Conference of Rectors of Universities and Applied Institutes in Southwestern Europe, European Clusters Alliance, European Historic Houses, Technische Universität Dresden, Clust-ER Innovate, Clust-ER TOURISM, UAc.FEG - School of Business and Economics - University of the Azores and Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. The associated project partners include additional regional and sector-specific collaborators: Galician ICT Cluster, Galician Audiovisual Cluster, Turismo Porto e Norte de Portugal , E.R., Fundação Côa Parque's (Foundation for the Protection and Enhancement of the Côa Valley), Fundação Casa de Mateus, etc. The project is funded by the #EU, European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA). #Innovation #S3Partnership #HeritageBrands #HeritageTourism #RegionalDevelopment #SMEs #RegionalBranding #DigitalTransformation #EconomicGrowth #VirtualTourism

The historic monastery of Astino in Bergamo will soon be a new home of the CIID community in Italy, and for our incoming Interaction Design Programme students: but why did we choose Italy for this venture? And why this particular site in Bergamo? First, there’s the Astino valley itself: an exceptionally biodiverse place where the Fondazione MIA is already managing a variety of projects focused on inclusion and environmental regeneration. For CIID, it’s a natural fit with our values around regenerative design, and an ideal place for pursuing studies and projects that seek to create positive impacts for both people and planet. But there are a couple of other advantages to the Bergamo location, which we’re excited to tell you about in this video. Ready to take the next step? Click here to learn more about CIID and the upcoming cohort of the IDP starting this September in Italy, and to book a one-on-onefree information session https://bit.ly/3VWwEpS Let's craft a regenerative future together, and make a tangible, positive impact on the world. #Bergamo #Italy #CIID #InteractionDesign #Global #Perspective #DesignEducation #International #Cultures #Different #ExperientialLearning #RegenerativeDesign #IDP #InteractionDesignProgramme #listen #built #test #repeat

💥 Decidim Fest is back! 📅 23rd, 24th and 25th of October  #SaveTheDate 📍 Barcelona (Canòdrom - Ateneu d'innovació digital i democràtica) 🌱 Three days to meet as a community, reflect on the challenges posed by the climate crisis and imagine desirable futures. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eJgE5xn9  Ecology, technology and democracy. Another future is possible. The climate crisis is undoubtedly the greatest civilisational challenge we face as a species. The foreseeable social and environmental effects it may have, urge us to think about how to confront the crisis in order to guarantee that the way out of it is fair and democratic. In this scenario, participation and democratic planning are two elements that, combined with the organisational potential of technology, can give us some keys to begin to draw these desirable futures that we want to inhabit. Even so, the questions that open up around the relationship between ecology, democracy and technology are many: What role can technology play in tackling the ecological crisis; what are the risks and opportunities in the use of these technologies; how can we move towards ecologically and socio-economically desirable societies in a democratic way; what kind of political institutions should we provide ourselves with to democratically manage the transition; what is the role of communities in all this; how do we imagine post-capitalist societies; and how do we imagine post-capitalist societies? We want to ground these debates in Decidim, in order to address more situated and project-related questions. For example: The design of participatory processes that respond to the challenges posed by the eco-social crisis, the use of technology to facilitate large-scale deliberation, or the example of Decidim as a public-common good that can serve to think about the institutions of the future and the relationship between the public, the commons and the market. In this edition of Decidim Fest, we will once again bring together our wonderful global community to meet, share paths, strengthen our collective project and try to answer some of these questions. We are aware that we have great challenges ahead of us, but Decidim is already a global reference for free and democratic technology in a growing ecosystem of FLOSS projects that are opening new paths of hope for a more democratic digital era. [CATALÀ] 💥 Torna Decidim Fest els dies 23, 24 i 25 d'octubre! 📍 Barcelona (Canòdrom - Ateneu d’innovació digital i democràtica) 🌱 Tres dies per trobar-nos com a comunitat, reflexionar sobre els reptes que ens planteja la crisi climàtica i imaginar futurs desitjables. [CASTELLANO] 💥¡Vuelve el Decidim Fest!  📅 Los días 23, 24 y 25 de octubre   📍 Barcelona (Canòdrom - Ateneu d’innovació digital i democràtica) 🌱Tres días para encontrarnos como comunidad, reflexionar sobre los retos que la crisis climática nos plantea e imaginar futuros deseables.

Criar Cidade is a recently started cooperative in Lisbon that works at the intersection of urban research, community work, art and culture, locally and translocally. We ‘create city’ with its inhabitants. Centering the experiences, stories and imaginations of people we work towards a more just city. Our work is based on three pillars: ‘conhecer’ as of collectively learning about our cities ‘imaginar’ as of radically rethinking our cities, and ‘brincar’ as of taking ownership of the urban spaces through art, culture and collective action. We believe in the power of connecting multiple local experiences to understand the dynamics that shape our cities, therefore we are particularly interested in collaborations beyond Lisbon. #city #learn #research #connect #imagine #rethink #play #action #art #culture #urban #cooperative

InnoArch is celebrating a milestone collaboration! We're excited to share the seed we have planted in the past months with CODEsign for COEXistence (CODE-COEX): The framework for scaling Biocities with nature-based solutions for planetary well-being. A remarkable collaborative effort towards internationalization. Partners from five European countries—Norway, Portugal, Spain, Poland, and Finland—formed a multidisciplinary team of architects, ecologists, health experts, and city planners, united with a shared vision. Together, we established a common ground for creating resilient, sustainable "Biocities." Our goal is to promote planetary well-being by integrating Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and New European Bauhaus (NEB) values into urban planning. These initiatives focus on restoring biodiversity, adapting to climate change, and enhancing the quality of life for all species. In a short time, we created  a cohesive framework across Europe, demonstrating the power of international cooperation and innovative thinking. We will continue to push our agenda forward.  Thank you to an amazing team! University of South-Eastern Norway /  Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) / Drammen kommune / Asker kommune / Banenor Eiendom /Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya/ University of Wroclaw Fundo Regional da Ciência e Tecnologia (FRCT)/ Ordem dos Arquitectos dos Açores / OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University Universidade dos Açores / Lapland University of Applied Sciences #UrbanDevelopment #Sustainability #Biocities #NatureBasedSolutions #GreenCities #NewEuropeanBauhaus #EuropeanCommission

CSX Community Sustainable Experiences represents the first opportunity I had to apply an academic paper totally written on my own! I'm so glad to be part of the authors who wrote about topics like communities and social innovation. In my paper, starting from design methodology and university experiences, I dived into the complex topic of community based design, an approach that decentralizes the focus from individuals (human centered design) to give answers to needs shared among multiple people with common values and goals. Source of knowledge for the paper were social studies and game theories which converge in the Community as an Onion Framework (CAAO), useful for designers and decision makers to analyze social contexts and to design new valuable ways of being a community, possibly a sustainable community. #CSX #socialinnovation #design #community #game #communitybaseddesign #sustainability PUSH. Università degli studi di Palermo thanks!

I had the opportunity to be part of these Scientific Days PEPR VDBI. A strong transversal and ambitious program through the value chain to accelerate the deployment of the sustainable cities strategy. Thanks all for the very interesting discussions and further connections with the PN ISSU (IREX (Institut) - Institut pour la recherche appliquée et l'expérimentation en génie civil #sustainability, #cities, #water, #biodiversity, #UHI

lucrezia & mimì are 2 of the speakers that brought food for thought to Regeneraction's European Living Lab in #Matera. They shared open-heartedly the learning points of some of their visionary projects: 👉 #Agrinetural 👉 #Agoragri 👉 #GiardiniVenerdì, in the frame of #ArchitectureOfShame Their experience shows that the lack of adequate support from the #PublicAdministration to #urbanregeneration projects can deprive cities from fruitful initiatives which improve their #qualityoflife. Instead, we need more corageous and open-minded staff inside institutions, who embody a long-term vision and support such #grassroots initiatives not only in terms of funding, but also with infrastructure, workforce, ad-hoc contracts and permissions. #Regeneraction #UrbaniSepare Materahub Institut de recherche et d'innovation Creative ArteriaLab / University of Évora FyG Consultores / Valencia INNO HUB