10.08.2015 - By World Bank's Open Learning Campus (OLC)
Living Labs are open and citizen driven innovation ecosystems and structures, used as Instruments for urban and regional innovation. Living Labs use co-creation and a real-life experimental approach to establish a dialog between technology and society leading to investments in new technologies focused on solving citizen’s problems. Implementation of multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholders collaborative infrastructures, tools and methodologies is not always easy. This webinar will explore the “what” and the “how to” of living labs, showcasing 2 Living Labs in 2 different countries: Brazil and Poland.
The purpose of Habitat Living Lab (Vitoria, Brazil) is the improvement of wellbeing and conditions of low-income populations. To achieve its purpose, Habitat LL is organized as a network of projects that combines academia, Government, business and society. Necessarily projects are geared toward the search for innovative solutions that allow advances in any of the areas related to well living. In addition, innovative solutions are sought with the involvement of "users" in a co-creation process. In addition to the Habitat Living Lab, the LabTAR will be presented as an example of an academic lab that manages the Living Lab projects all over Brazil.