Harvesting living labs outcomes through learning pathways
Living labs have emerged as a long-term, collaborative approach to addressing complex societal challenges, such as sustainable land and water management and climate change adaption. While these transdisciplinary environments foster continuous knowledge exchange and interactions among actors from div...
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| description | Living labs have emerged as a long-term, collaborative approach to addressing complex societal challenges, such as sustainable land and water management and climate change adaption. While these transdisciplinary environments foster continuous knowledge exchange and interactions among actors from diverse disciplines and sectors, the role of learning in realizing the impacts of living labs on participating actors and broader society is often underexplored. This paper aims to identify and analyze learning that occurs within a sequence of co-creative activities and their resulting outcomes, using the concept of ‘learning pathways’. The ‘living lab learning framework’ provides a systematic approach to organizing and categorizing living lab activities, enabling to infer learning pathways. An ex-post analysis of an empirical case study on a climate adaptation project, KLIMAP, resulted in seven distinct learning pathways: 1) harnessing collective integrated knowledge, 2) building collaborative networks, 3) enhancing stakeholder capacity, 4) adapting and contextualizing knowledge, 5) diffusing knowledge, 6) facilitating co-creation, and 7) reflecting on learning. These pathways were developed by examining the types of learning activities, their processes, and the entities involved, linking them to the outcomes achieved. The findings highlight that learning pathways contribute to identifying outcomes and broader impacts of living labs. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a4f967315ca44adeb33cbe344cd867d12025-01-05T04:28:39ZengElsevierCurrent Research in Environmental Sustainability2666-04902025-01-019100277Harvesting living labs outcomes through learning pathwaysAstha Bhatta0Heleen Vreugdenhil1Jill Slinger2Delft University of Technology, Department of Multi-Actor Systems, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, the Netherlands; Deltares, PO Box 177, 2600 MH Delft, the Netherlands; Corresponding author at: Delft University of Technology, Department of Multi-Actor Systems, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX, Delft, the Netherlands.Delft University of Technology, Department of Multi-Actor Systems, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, the Netherlands; Deltares, PO Box 177, 2600 MH Delft, the NetherlandsDelft University of Technology, Department of Multi-Actor Systems, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, the Netherlands; Institute for Water Research, Rhodes University, PO Box 94, Makhanda 6140, South AfricaLiving labs have emerged as a long-term, collaborative approach to addressing complex societal challenges, such as sustainable land and water management and climate change adaption. While these transdisciplinary environments foster continuous knowledge exchange and interactions among actors from diverse disciplines and sectors, the role of learning in realizing the impacts of living labs on participating actors and broader society is often underexplored. This paper aims to identify and analyze learning that occurs within a sequence of co-creative activities and their resulting outcomes, using the concept of ‘learning pathways’. The ‘living lab learning framework’ provides a systematic approach to organizing and categorizing living lab activities, enabling to infer learning pathways. An ex-post analysis of an empirical case study on a climate adaptation project, KLIMAP, resulted in seven distinct learning pathways: 1) harnessing collective integrated knowledge, 2) building collaborative networks, 3) enhancing stakeholder capacity, 4) adapting and contextualizing knowledge, 5) diffusing knowledge, 6) facilitating co-creation, and 7) reflecting on learning. These pathways were developed by examining the types of learning activities, their processes, and the entities involved, linking them to the outcomes achieved. The findings highlight that learning pathways contribute to identifying outcomes and broader impacts of living labs.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666049024000379Learning pathwaysLearning frameworkCo-creative environmentCo-creative activitiesKLIMAP |
| spellingShingle | Astha Bhatta Heleen Vreugdenhil Jill Slinger Harvesting living labs outcomes through learning pathways Current Research in Environmental Sustainability Learning pathways Learning framework Co-creative environment Co-creative activities KLIMAP |
| title | Harvesting living labs outcomes through learning pathways |
| title_full | Harvesting living labs outcomes through learning pathways |
| title_fullStr | Harvesting living labs outcomes through learning pathways |
| title_full_unstemmed | Harvesting living labs outcomes through learning pathways |
| title_short | Harvesting living labs outcomes through learning pathways |
| title_sort | harvesting living labs outcomes through learning pathways |
| topic | Learning pathways Learning framework Co-creative environment Co-creative activities KLIMAP |
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