Living labs and co-production could potentially be very powerful strategies for universities to address sustainability challenges and to provide a strong, effective and motivational learning environment. Yet there are still relatively few examples of using real living labs in education , especially in sectors such as business studies. This workshop discusses the potential of living labs to provide a holistic and iterative framework for the co-production of knowledge.
The challenge is to turn the University into a Living Lab or to transform the surrounding environment into a real-life Living Lab for higher education. The goal is to explore and provide a framework for students and academics to engage with the opportunities to work with the surrounding environment in a mutually beneficial manner where learning occurs alongside the “business-as-usual” of the living lab. This workshop explores discusses the generation of living lab projects, the design of the campus as a living lab, and institutional visibility, identifying the key strengths of the living lab approach and the challenges of applying it more broadly