ZusammenfassungDer Beitrag beleuchtet die Funktion von Reallaboren als Rahmen für transformative und transdisziplinäre Forschung. Dazu wird zuerst ein Verständnis von Reallaboren vorgelegt, das auf der Reflexion praktischer Erfahrungen von Reallaboren in Baden-Württemberg beruht. Ausgangspunkt hierfür ist ein Verständnis von Reallaboren als Infrastruktur für Realexperimente und andere transdisziplinäre Projekte. Aufbauend auf diesem Verständnis werden die Ziele der Reallaborarbeit in drei Dimensionen, den Forschungs-, Praxis- und Bildungszielen beschrieben. Um einen solchen Rahmen herzustellen und zu pflegen, werden fünf Designprinzipien vorgeschlagen: Problem- und Themenangemessenheit herstellen, räumliche Angemessenheit gestalten, zeitliche Angemessenheit herstellen, angemessene Akteursrollen etablieren sowie experimentell-reflexive Arbeitsweise fördern. Den Abschluss bildet ein Schema aus Zieldimensionen und Designprinzipien, das bei der Ausgestaltung von Reallaboren als Hilfestellung dienen soll, das aber auch als Reflexionsschema verwendet werden kann.
Cities worldwide are rising to the challenge of sustainable development, calling for large-scale and fastpaced transformations towards sustainability. Urban sustainability challenges are now being reframed as a lack of capacity of individuals and organizations to carry out such socio-technical transformations. This article expands on transformative capacity literature by elucidating the concept of actor-centric transformative capacity. It focuses on the unique role city-university partnerships (CUPs) can play in catalyzing and supporting effective urban sustainability transformations. Two case studies on CUPs in Portland, Oregon and Tempe, Arizona are used to identify determinants of actor-centric transformative capacity, their role in the transformative capacity of urban systems, and how they are built through CUPs. The article concludes with strategies for building effective CUPs capable of building actor-centric transformative capacity among university actors and city administrators.
Real-world laboratories (RwLs) are a form of transdisciplinary research that facilitates learning processes as part of its transformative objectives. Nevertheless, little conceptual effort has been put into the understanding, planning, and evaluation of the learning dimension of RwL
work. This paper applies a systematic approach from the discourse on education for sustainable development (ESD) to differentiate three perspectives on the various learning processes occurring in RwLs and exemplifies them with experiences from the RwL Urban Transition Lab 131 in Karlsruhe.
Abstract:The urgency of climate change and other sustainability challenges makes transferring and scaling solutions between cities a necessity. However, solutions are deeply contextual. To accelerate solution efforts, there is a need to understand how context shapes the development of solutions. Universities are well positioned to work with cities on transferring solutions from and to other cities. This paper analyses five case studies of city-university partnerships in three countries on transferring solutions. Our analysis suggests that understanding the interest, the action on sustainability, and the individual and collective sustainability competences on the part of the city administration and the university can help facilitate the transfer of sustainability solutions across contexts. We conclude that the nature of the city-university partnership is essential to solution transfer and that new and existing networks can be used to accelerate progress on the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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