DATE & TIME
1 October 2025, 12:45 – 13:45
LOCATION
OLLD Networking Village
Agenda
Timeslot | Item |
|---|---|
| 12:45 –13:15 | Living Labs Research – Research Agenda & Community Roadmap – Dimitri Schuurman In this talk, Dimitri will introduce ENoLL’s research community. A first research agenda will be presented, together with an initial roadmap and planned activities for the community. |
| 13:15 –13:45 | Creative Encounters: Networking with the C&C WG – Martha King Join the Culture & Creativity Working Group for an informal networking moment open to members and anyone curious about culture, creativity, and Living Labs. This is a relaxed space to meet, exchange ideas, and chat about exciting initiatives at the intersection of art, creativity, and innovation. No agenda—just a chance to connect and get inspired together. |
Speakers
Dimitri Schuurman
University Business Development Manager, imec-MICT-Ghent University & Senior Research Strategist, ENoLL
Dimitri Schuurman
University Business Development Manager, imec-MICT-Ghent University & Senior Research Strategist, ENoLLDimitri is a university business developer at research group imec-MICT-Ghent University where he is responsible for research on inclusive design, impact via Living Labs, and design for futures, all in the context of new and emerging technologies. He is a visiting professor of strategic design and innovation management at Ghent University and works in part for the European Network of Living Labs as their senior research strategist. His PhD on innovation management in Living Labs developed a three-layered model that is now widely used in Living Lab research and practice. Finally, Dimitri is active as an independent consultant in the domains of open innovation, user innovation and strategic innovation management.
Martha King
Creative Co-Director at Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) Bristol’s Living Lab
Martha King
Creative Co-Director at Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) Bristol’s Living LabMartha King is the Creative Co-Director at Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) Bristol’s Living Lab in Knowle West, UK. KWMC is an arts and community tech organisation with a mission to ‘make fair and thriving neighborhoods together, with arts tech and care’. She is also co-founder and director of Control Shift, an international arts and tech festival, based in Bristol. She has developed and delivered numerous participatory and critically engaged arts and tech projects and ran community tech co-creation programmes exploring topics such as data ethics, AI and commons-based approaches to citizen sensing. Martha has a background in theatre and performance making which means collaborative and embodied practices are central to her work. She has a UCL accredited service design qualification and is a currently on the Clore Leading Systemic Change Programme. She is co-author on HCI published paper ‘A City in Common: A Framework to Foster Technology Innovation from the Bottom up’ and co-author of the chapter ‘We Can Make: Co-Creating Knowledge and Products with Local Communities’ in ‘Co-Creation in Theory and Practice Exploring Creativity in the Global North and South’.