DATE & TIME
2 October 2025, 11:00 – 12:30
TRACKS
TRACK 1: Living Labs for Grand Societal Challenges
TRACK 2: Living Labs for Policies, Governance, collaboration and innovation ecosystems
TRACK 4: Living Labs for Business and Emerging Technology
TRACK 5: Living Labs Operations, Methods, Tools, and Impact
ROOM
BiciLab
Description
Experience how AMS Institute deploys the Urban Living Lab Way of Working in Amsterdam. Find out how to connect complex and large-scale urban challenges in circularity, energy, and mobility, to small-scale experiments in real-life local environments. Explore how this approach combines a bottom-up and top-down approach in an iterative manner.
Agenda
Timeslot | Item |
|---|---|
| 11:00 – 11:30 | In this workshop you will experience “A Day in the Life of a Living Lab Coordinator.” During this 1.5-hour session, you will step into the shoes of a new Urban Living Lab (ULL) coordinator, experiencing the challenges and rewards of this dynamic but challenging role. During the workshop, your job is to navigate a complex ULL project in Amsterdam focused on sustainable, energy-positive neighborhoods. |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | The workshop is designed as an interactive journey where you will bring order to the “chaos” of a real-world Living Lab project in Amsterdam. To support this journey, you will be introduced to the various activities of a project, and structure these using the Urban Living Lab Multilevel Framework. During this journey, your mission as a new Living Lab Coordinator is to structure and react to a broad range of situations, representing different activities and events that may take place during the project. |
| 12:00 – 12:25 | The Multilevel Framework and the accompanying Eight-Step Living Lab Way of Working will help you to visualize and understand the key elements of the deployment of Urban Living Labs, as applied in the context of the Municipality of Amsterdam. Your job is to bring order to chaos, map out the system, and connect its various parts. |
| 12:25 – 12:30 | By the end of the workshop, you will:
This workshop is a hands-on way to explore how a Living Lab coordinator can navigate the complexities of an Urban Living Lab, |
Facilitators
Peter Joore
Professor of applied sciences and chair of the Open Innovation Research group at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.
Peter Joore
Professor of applied sciences and chair of the Open Innovation Research group at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.Peter Joore is professor of applied sciences and chair of the Open Innovation Research group at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. He is chair of the Network Applied Design Research and holds a PhD from the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of Delft University of Technology, where he is still a visiting researcher at the Design for Sustainability section. In all his work, his main aim is the realization of a smart, sustainable, inclusive society. Peter’s research focuses on the relationship between long-term societal transition processes on the one hand, and short-term product and service innovations on the other.
Aranka Dijkstra
Former Program Developer Living Labs at AMS Institute
Aranka Dijkstra
Former Program Developer Living Labs at AMS InstituteAranka Dijkstra looks to accelerate sustainable transitions through implementing real-life experiments and interdisciplinary collaborations. Since 2014, she has been guiding students and entrepreneurs in designing and implementing experiments in various urban- and festival living labs. Even after many years, Aranka maintains a strong connection to festival experimentation and aims to spread her knowledge and experience with festival experimentation through various publications and in particular the Festival Experimentation Guide, a practical guide on how to experiment at festivals, created in collaboration with Marije Boonstra, Peter Joore and with the support of NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences. Recently, she wrote the Urban Living Lab Way of Working Handbook for AMS Institute - Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions.
Stach Aarts
Educational Developer at AMS Institute
Stach Aarts
Educational Developer at AMS InstituteStach Aarts is Educational Developer at AMS Institute, where he designs innovative learning environments that translate the Living Lab Way of Working into education, training, and professional development programs for the infrastructure and innovation sectors. With a background in educational sciences and innovation management, he has extensive experience in learning design, design-based education, and educational innovation. Before joining AMS Institute, Stach worked as an education advisor and researcher at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences. He is a certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator and combines analytical thinking with a creative, participatory approach to learning.