During our call for papers before summer full research papers, research in progress papers and practitioners presentations could be submitted to 6 different tracks:

  • Culture & creativity in times of disruptive change
  • Urban & Rural resilience
  • Health & WellBeing
  • Challenges for living labs
  • Digital Social Innovation
  • Living Labs for a greener future

The research session will see 24 papers from 6 different topics.  The research awards session will take place on Friday from 14:30-15:00.

Monday, 6 September - 14:30-16:15

In this session the chair of the DLLD scientific committee, Dr. Dimitri Schuurman, will introduce the 6 submissions which received the highest marks following the peer review. At the end of the session, the voting for the Best Research Paper – the Veli Pekka Niitamo Award will open.

Papers which will be presented are: 

  • Human Factors in Living Lab Research
  • The key role of a Living Lab in creating a blockchain-based digital ecosystem to support local businesses.
  • A closer look at the role of higher education in living labs: a scoping review
  • Investigating the diversity of urban collaborative experimentations and identifying major trends in qualitative case studies from four major Canadian cities
  • Scaling the voice of older adults – reflections on a needed co-design infrastructure for healthy ageing smart cities
  • Urban Living Labs: Pathways for Sustainability Transitions to Innovative City System from Circular Economy Perspective

Tuesday, 7 September - 15:30-17:00

In this session track chairs Jokin Garatea and Milica Trajkovic, will introduce the 6 submissions which received the highest marks following the peer review. At the end of the session, the voting for the Best Research Paper – the Veli Pekka Niitamo Award will open.

Papers which will be presented are: 

  • Maker City
  • ReThink ReMake Recycle – participatory science communication
  • Agroecology living labs: defining characteristics and key components of their successful orchestration
  • Urban Living Labs and Transformative Changes
  • Rural Living Lab: What is that and how is it shaped?
  • Socially-oriented urban living labs in post-industrial cities: challenges and lessons learned

Wednesday, 8 September - 15:30-17:00

In this session track chairs for “Culture & creativity in times of disruptive change” and “Urban & Rural resilience” Seppo Leminen and Abdolrasoul Habibipour, will introduce the 6 submissions which received the highest marks following the peer review. At the end of the session, the voting for the Best Research Paper – the Veli Pekka Niitamo Award will open.

Papers which will be presented are: 

  • Daycare@Home: developing an innovative sustainable digital community daycare intervention
  • Enhancing Collaborative Innovation – Case Healthy Liveable Neighbourhoods
  • Motivational modelling: Bridging design and entrepreneurial activity to create business values
  • The added value of cross-border living lab services for the health market: insights from the CrossCare project
  • Orchestrating creative chaos: the role and key competencies of living lab managers & their team
  • Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services Referral Innovation. Co-design and validation methodology

Thursday, 9 September - 15:30-17:00

In this session track chairs of “Digital Social Innovation” and “Living Labs for a greener future” Josep Maria Salanova Grau and Fernando Vilariño will introduce the 6 submissions which received the highest marks following the peer review. At the end of the session, the voting for the Best Public Research Paper will be open.

Papers which will be presented are: 

  • Living lab as the cluster of innovating, valorising and internationalising of the higher education sector
  • Milan’s ULL co-design pathway to spread green roofs and walls throughout the city
  • Co-Creation During COVID: Lessons and Unexpected Benefits of a Sudden Shift to Co-Creation in Virtual Environments
  • Co-creating a Living Lab for Sustainable Community Engagement
  • Towards an XAI alignment workshop: a practice-oriented, multi-stakeholder approach for human-centred AI explanations
  • The Urban Living Lab as tool for introducing circularity in the everyday life of vulnerable neighbourhoods: Case study Kerkrade-West, the Netherlands.

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