Learning Lab Intermediate Track on Impact, Inclusion and Responsible Experimentation
The Intermediate Track is designed for practitioners who already have some experience with Living Labs and want to deepen their methodological, strategic and reflective practice. The track focuses on how Living Labs can strengthen their impact, become more inclusive, evaluate their work while it is still evolving, and address ethical challenges in real-life experimentation.
Time
09:00 – 17:00
Room
Industrious
Agenda
Trainers
Marta De Los Rios White
Head of Capacity Building & Research, ENoLL
Marta De Los Rios White
Head of Capacity Building & Research, ENoLLMarta De Los Rios White is the Head of Capacity Building and Research at ENoLL. She is a Process Engineer with a Master in Sustainable Cities with international project management experience. She is a professional with more than 10 years of experience in sustainable and participative process improvement and transformation, co-creation of solutions and Capacity Building. With proven abilities in strategic and systemic thinking, leadership, and teamwork, her work has focused mostly on project management and capacity building. She is an experienced project manager with experience supporting the implementation of international cooperation projects for different donors and specially for the European Commission.
Isabelle Couture
Deputy Head of Capacity Building, ENoLL
Isabelle Couture
Deputy Head of Capacity Building, ENoLLIsabelle Couture is the Deputy Head of Capacity Building and Research at ENoLL and has more than 12 years of experience working in the public, private and nonprofit sectors to develop and implement successful programs and engagement strategies. Her previous work experience covers a range of policy research projects and partnership-building activities in Canada and abroad. She previously worked at the Smart Prosperity Institute and The Natural Step Canada where she led the implementation of programming aimed at accelerating the transition to a sustainable society.
Áine Macken-Walsh
Senior Research Officer, Teagasc’s Rural Economy and Development Programme (REDP
Áine Macken-Walsh
Senior Research Officer, Teagasc’s Rural Economy and Development Programme (REDPÁine Macken-Walsh is a Senior Research Officer at Teagasc’s Rural Economy and Development Programme (REDP). She is a sociologist, using narrative, participatory and action research methodologies intersected with co-design processes. She works in transdisciplinary contexts, addressing societal challenges relating to diverse issues such as human cooperation, gender, animal health, climate change, consumer: producer chains and the bioeconomy. Áine founded and leads Teagasc’s Agri-Innovation and Learning (AgILe) Living Laboratory, supporting and evaluating multi-actor co-design of agri-food system policy and extension interventions.
Raija Kaljunen
Service Designer, Facilitator and Trainer, Laurea University of Applied Sciences
Raija Kaljunen
Service Designer, Facilitator and Trainer, Laurea University of Applied SciencesRaija Kaljunen is a Service Designer, Facilitator and Trainer at Laurea University of Applied Sciences. She works in EU-funded R&D projects, applying Living Lab principles to support sustainability-driven and participatory development in real-life settings. She also contributes to teaching at Laurea. Raija has extensive experience in designing and facilitating co-creative and futures-oriented processes that help diverse stakeholders build shared understanding and develop actionable ideas and concepts. She is particularly skilled in creating spaces for meaningful dialogue and collaborative learning, drawing on a strong background in communication.
Dr. Abdolrasoul (Rasoul) Habibipour
Associate Professor in Information Systems, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, and Managing Director of Botnia Living Lab
Dr. Abdolrasoul (Rasoul) Habibipour
Associate Professor in Information Systems, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, and Managing Director of Botnia Living LabDr. Abdolrasoul (Rasoul) Habibipour is Associate Professor in Information Systems at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, and Managing Director of Botnia Living Lab and educational program leader at LTU. His research focuses on participatory design, user engagement, co-creation, and Living Labs, with a particular interest in ethics, responsibility, and inclusive innovation. Rasoul has led and contributed to several international research and innovation projects and has extensive experience in developing and studying innovations in real-life settings.
Prof. Dr. Dimitri Schuurman
Senior Research Strategy, ENoLL
Prof. Dr. Dimitri Schuurman
Senior Research Strategy, ENoLLProf. Dr. Dimitri Schuurman is ENoLL’s Senior Research Strategy, as well as an university business developer at imec-MICT-Ghent University and a visiting professor at the department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Product Design of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University. He holds a PhD in innovation management in Living Labs from Ghent University (UGent) and the Free University of Brussels (VUB) in Belgium. Together with his imec colleagues, Dimitri developed a specific Innovation Management methodology with supporting innovation canvasses (under the label ‘Innovatrix’), specifically designed for multi-stakeholder and multidisciplinary innovation projects. He also leads a special interest group on Living Labs in the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM). His main interests and research topics are in the areas of open innovation, user innovation and innovation management.