Cities Including Children

Living labs for the urban commons

developing collaborative governance arrangements through experimental learning environments

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This paper describes how an urban commons is established on the Amsterdam market square Plein ’40-’45, to explain how an experimental learning environment can be a living lab for improving collaborative governance arrangements. We detail how this improvement is facilitated by an experimental learning environment that engages stakeholders in a process where practical solutions are developed and systemic obstacles are addressed and redesigned simultaneously. Our study is guided by the research question: How can an experimental learning environment develop practical solutions as a means to address systemic obstacles and improve collaborative governance arrangements?

Reference Meerkerk, J., Ferguson, J., & Grin, J. (2020). Living labs for the urban commons: developing collaborative governance arrangements through experimental learning environments. In D. Schuurman (Ed.), Proceedings of the Digital Living Lab Days Conference 2020: connecting people and technologies toward a citizen-centered digital future (pp. 185-192). European Network of Living Labs. https://issuu.com/enoll/docs/proceedings_final
1 January 2020

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Jan 2020

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John Grin

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