DATE & TIME
1 October 2025, 14:00 – 15:30
TRACKS
TRACK 1: Living Labs for Grand Societal Challenges
TRACK 3: Living Labs for Inclusive Soci(et)al Engagement
TRACK 5: Living Labs Operations, Methods, Tools, and Impact
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Description
Tourism can be a force for good in cities, and is increasingly seen as a route to quality of live for local citizens and city users. Thriving places and communities are incubators for social innovation. Living Labs working in domains of health and wellbeing, mobility and urban development can grow participation through a better alignment with place and placemaking. This workshop is aimed at helping Living Labs – emergent and existing – to identify synergies with their current projects, ambitions and areas of focus with leisure and tourism.
Agenda
Timeslot |
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| 14:00 – 14:10 | Introduction and setting the scene |
| 14:10 – 14:50 | Place Exploration. In teams, participants will be given particular spaces to discover.
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| 14:50 – 15:00 | What do you think about this place?
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | Regenerative approaches. Presentation and open discussion.
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Facilitators
Dr Donagh Horgan
Lab Lead, Urban Leisure and Tourism Lab Rotterdam
Dr Donagh Horgan
Lab Lead, Urban Leisure and Tourism Lab RotterdamDonagh Horgan is an academic and practitioner in the area of regenerative placemaking and socio-spatial transformation, and lab lead at the Urban Leisure and Tourism Lab Rotterdam. His work looks at societal transitions through a holistic lens of sustainable tourism. Trained as an architect and social designer, Donagh also consults internationally on social innovation on the built environment with cities and local government for UNDP, URBACT, universities and local governments. Specialising in participatory design and co-creation, he actively collaborates on a number of European-funded research projects on topics such as inclusive cities, climate democracy and heritage valorisation.
Ko Koens
Professor New Urban Tourism, Inholland University of Applied Sciences
Ko Koens
Professor New Urban Tourism, Inholland University of Applied SciencesKo Koens is a lecturer at the New Urban Tourism research group, part of the Applied Research x Creativity knowledge centre at Inholland University of Applied Sciences. Cities are experiencing increasing pressure due to urbanization and rapidly growing urban tourism. His research considers a new balance between visitors and residents, so that tourism and the social transformation of urban neighbourhoods can go hand in hand. Part of the research group, the living labs help to articulate knowledge on how tourism can be harmoniously integrated into the societal challenges facing cities. Koens strives to develop this knowledge in collaboration with other parties. This takes place, among other places, within the Centre of Expertise Leisure, Tourism & Hospitality, ENSUT and as part of several EU-funded research projects.
Bernadette Quinn
Senior Lecturer, Department of Tourism, Technological University Dublin
Bernadette Quinn
Senior Lecturer, Department of Tourism, Technological University DublinBernadette Quinn is a senior lecturer in Technological University Dublin. She publishes on arts festivals, being interested in how they transform space and shape place identities. Recent projects include the Irish Research Council funded project Festivals, Audiences and the Digital Experience and the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) funded project Festivals, Events and Inclusive Public Spaces. She also publishes on urban tourism mobilities and currently is the lead PI on the funded Pathways to New Urban Tourism project which adopts a living lab approach. Bernadette sits on board of the International Geographical Union Tourism Commission.