Featuring your living lab to visually map its essence

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This is a tool designed for the growing living lab community. We looked at dozens of living lab definitions from scientific papers. What we hoped to achieve, was a playful way to understand what researchers think what living labs are about. The tasks that they think are essential and what content they cover. We try to embrace the great diversity of different approaches, rather than be exclusive.

But first, what is the definition of a living lab? You can see the one from ENOLL here but the concept of Living Lab accommodates many different understandings and set ups, however within the wide variety of living labs, they all have common characteristics, but multiple different implementations.

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The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is the international, non-profit, independent association of benchmarked Living Labs. ENoLL facilitates knowledge exchange, joint actions and project partnerships between its historically labelled +480 members in Europe and worldwide. It aims to promote the Living Labs concept to influence EU policies, enhance Living Labs and enable their implementation at a global level.

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The idea for such an approach goes back to the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein found, that there are many things in the world, where any approach to defining them in the classical sense (that is: finding a way to describe them, but without losing any of their attributes), results in an unwelcome reduction. We concluded, that our understanding of the current living lab community fits well with what Wittgenstein said. We think, that the dozens of definitions are not incomplete attempts, but rather account for the openness of the community that composed them.

We created this tool so anyone can check what are the most relevant features of their living lab based on its definition. So please submit your definition in the box below and see the correlation of the features to the definition of your living lab.

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Let's try with the ENOLL definition, click to copy it!

Correlation:

OPERATIONAL TASKS CO-CREATION USER-CENTRIC METHODS TRANS DISCIP LINARITY INCLUSIVE DESIGN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION EXPERIMENTATION ADOPTION OF INNOVATIONS EARLY STAGE DESIGN LONG-TERM MONITORING MULTI STAKEHOLDER PARTNERSHIPS REAL-WORLD ENVIRONMENTS SOCIAL CONTEXTS OPEN INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS SETTING METHODS CONTENT SERVICE TECHNOLOGIES INNOVATIONS IDEAS PRODUCTS & SERVICES SOCIAL DYNAMICS TRANSFORMATIONS