The Defining Characteristics of Urban Living Labs
The Defining Characteristics of Urban Living Labs
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城市生活实验室的定义特征
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2017
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E. Bueren
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K.Y.G. Steen;E. Bueren
组织得到支持的可持续城市干预措施具有挑战性，因为涉及多个行为体，决策权分散，而且涉及多种价值观。在全球范围内，城市生活实验室已成为应对这一挑战的一种时尚现象，它促进了城市现实生活环境中创新、实验和知识的发展和实施，同时强调参与和共同创造的重要作用。然而，尽管城市生活实验室可以通过这种方式帮助城市加快可持续转型，但城市生活实验室专家一致认为，为了真正成功完成这些雄心勃勃的任务，城市生活实验室的塑造和引导方式需要进一步研究。然而，它们也证实了这一概念的定义中存在的差异和不透明。本文通过对城市生活实验室的可操作性定义，对阿姆斯特丹市的90个可持续城市创新项目进行了评估，从而有助于概念的清晰化。评估表明，大多数被标记为生活实验室的项目不包括生活实验室的一个或多个定义元素。特别是，在许多项目中，没有明确的共同创造和开发活动。本文可以对所谓的生活实验室项目进行分类，并从许多不正确标记或未标记的生活实验室中提取“真正的”生活实验室，从而进行更具体的分析，并最终为城市生活实验室提供更有针对性的方法建议。
The organization of supported and sustainable urban interventions is challenging, with multiple actors involved, fragmented decision-making powers, and multiple values at stake. Globally, urban living labs have become a fashionable phenomenon to tackle this challenge, fostering the development and implementation of innovation, experimentation, and knowledge in urban, real-life settings while emphasizing the important role of participation and co-creation. However, although urban living labs could in this way help cities to speed up the sustainable transition, urban living lab experts agree that, in order to truly succeed in these ambitious tasks, the way urban living labs are being shaped and steered needs further research. Yet, they also confirm the existing variation and opaqueness in the definition of the concept. This article contributes to conceptual clarity by developing an operationalized definition of urban living labs, which has been used to assess 90 sustainable urban innovation projects in the city of Amsterdam. The assessment shows that the majority of the projects that are labelled as living labs do not include one or more of the defining elements of a living lab. In particular, the defining co-creation and development activities were found to be absent in many of the projects. This article makes it possible to categorize alleged living lab projects and distill the “true” living labs from the many improperly labelled or unlabelled living labs, allowing more specific analyses and, ultimately, better targeted methodological recommendations for urban living labs.