Social Practices as a Main Focus in Living Lab Research

Baedeker, Carolin; Liedtke, Christa

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-33527-8_3

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“…The concept of living labs was also presented as a socio-technical infrastructure to support user-centric and often open innovation processes [28,31,33]. According to Romero Herrera, such labs deliver collaborative platforms for professionals from different disciplines to work together with future users and public and private stakeholders to generate solutions that are rooted in the settings of daily life practices.…”

Section: Living Labsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability Living Labs as a Methodological Approach to Research on the Cultural Drivers of Sustainable Development

Baran

Berkowicz

2020

Sustainability

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Given that culture-driven processes cannot be researched and designed if taken out from the real-life environment, an appropriate methodology to study the impact of culture on sustainable development is needed. The aim of the research was to develop a model of a sustainability living lab as a methodological approach based on the living lab concept and its capabilities to study the cultural drivers of sustainable development. The research was carried out with use of the conceptual research framework based on analyzing existing knowledge on cognitive processes within living laboratories and their interpretation in the light of the relationship between culture and sustainable development. First, the results of the analysis of sustainability cultural drivers and the living lab concept are presented, which constitute the research framework of the study. Then, the main contribution as a novel theoretical concept of sustainability living lab is elaborated and discussed. The novelty of this approach to research on the cultural drivers of sustainable development is based on linking together in a coherent model the consequences of the dual nature of culture and the arguments for conducting such research beyond the limitations of closed laboratories towards the highly dynamic environment of real life.

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Section: Living Labsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability Living Labs as a Methodological Approach to Research on the Cultural Drivers of Sustainable Development

Baran

Berkowicz

2020

Sustainability

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“…Also, innovation has more than only a technological aspect: it extends to socio-economic-environmental and political scopes [35] (p. 1). Even further, the needs created by the technologies themselves and social practices surrounding them should be taken into account or the outcomes of new sustainable approaches, practices, technologies can turn out very unsustainable [36] (p. 24). Living Labs projects can help establish an ecosystem for research and actions on innovative practices that promote open and collaborative innovation processes by engaging all relevant stakeholders and people in different relevant contexts [2] (p. 7).…”

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confidence: 99%

Living Labs for Rural Areas: Contextualization of Living Lab Frameworks, Concepts and Practices

2019

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Living Labs are spaces for innovative and participative research, development and activities that use multidisciplinary approaches and promote the co-creation paradigm. Our specific interest lies in exploring the value of the Living Lab concept for creating environments that enable equal opportunities for people living in rural and urban areas, and for making rural areas attractive places to live. Moreover, through the existing practices and research results available, Living Labs are seen as one of the important building blocks of smart rural development and an important step towards establishing a Smart Village environment. Living Labs are a valuable player in enhancing circular economy, digital transformation, local self-sufficiency and other elements of sustainable living. The main aim of this paper is therefore to put Living Labs in the context of rural areas and evaluate their possible contributions for sustainable rural development. This paper argues that the element of community and social change should be considered as a key element in enabling sustainable living.

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“…Howaldt & Schwarz, 2010;Avelino et al, 2015) or sustainable product-service-systems (Liedtke et al, 2015). An integrative model of sustainable practices was elsewhere proposed (Liedtke et al, 2013d;Hasselkuß et al, 2017), which links the MLP of transition research and social practice theories. With this model activities and daily routines involving consumption (Warde, 2005) are analysed as so called social practices as a theoretical approach from sociology (Reckwitz, 2002;Shove et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A well-known concept of transition research is the multi-level perspective (MLP) which describes an interplay of socio-technical regimes, niches and landscapes in transitions (Geels, 2004). Building on the link between the MLP and social practice theories that was elaborated elsewhere (Liedtke, Hasselkuß, Welfens, Nordmann & Baedeker, 2013d;Hasselkuß, Baedeker & Liedtke, 2017) and that was recently proposed in transition research (Geels, McMeekin, Mylan & Southerton, 2015), we aim to show change of practices through sustainable product-service-design. Often strategies for sustainability focus on technological innovation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…First we briefly introduce the elsewhere (Liedtke et al, 2013d;Hasselkuß et al, 2017) elaborated link between social practice theories as an increasingly popular approach to study sustainable consumption and the MLP framework. Then we outline changes in social practices that can historically be observed for the examples of bathing and nutrition (section 3), before we introduce examples of product and service innovations that can support change of social practices in a user-integrated perspective as well as educational strategies (section 4).…”

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Transition and Social Practices

Liedtke¹,

Speck²,

Baedeker³

2017

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Against the background of environmental problems arising from the growing extraction of natural resources and resource depletion, achieving a sustainable development is an indispensable challenge in the twenty-first century. In this article we want to show how socio-technical and product-service innovations can change social practices -the routine doings in everyday life -and, thus, support transition of socio-technical systems. We introduce theoretical considerations on how social practice theories and the framework of the Multi-Level Perspective in transition research can be linked to better understand transition processes from a micro-macro-link perspective. We then present cases based on desk research in the field of practices in bathing, heating and nutrition to show how these have changed over the past decades. Building on this, examples of concepts for sustainable product-service-design in these areas are introduced as leverage points to change social practices in everyday life. These have been developed in research projects or design student seminar works, respectively. We argue that this implies sustainable product-service-systems should be developed in a user-and actor-integrated framework, such as Sustainable LivingLabs. The integration of users and other stakeholders into participatory co-creation processes enables tailored solutions that take actual routines and dependencies seriously into account.

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Social Practices as a Main Focus in Living Lab Research

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

Sustainability Living Labs as a Methodological Approach to Research on the Cultural Drivers of Sustainable Development

Sustainability Living Labs as a Methodological Approach to Research on the Cultural Drivers of Sustainable Development

Living Labs for Rural Areas: Contextualization of Living Lab Frameworks, Concepts and Practices

Transition and Social Practices

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