Case owner: Milieu Centraal
Goal: This Living Lab looks at how to encourage people in different neighbourhoods or social groups settings to share items like electronics, appliances, and everyday goods. By focusing on trust and convenience, we hope to make sharing an easy and appealing part of daily life.
Create social initiatives to support sharing within social communities.
Address challenges that make sharing difficult, such as busy schedules or lack of trust.
Test new sharing services that bring people together and make it easier to share.
In partnership with Milieu Centraal and local municipalities, we’ll co-design and test solutions in two contrasting neighbourhoods. By observing how people respond, we’ll gather insights to expand sharing practices across the country.
In these environments urban innovations can be tested with citizens on a small scale before being implemented at a larger one. Through applied research, different stakeholders co-create, develop and test solutions in urban areas.
Working with critical societal partners as Living Lab case owners, we will set up, run and monitor social experiments across different societal settings to explore ways to make sharing and repairing more common across Dutch society.
By working in real-life co-creating settings the solution is shaped and reformed continuously. This is made possible by gathering feedback in real-time over the course of the project. With the solution already tested and reformed in a real environment, adoption on a larger scale later will happen faster and more smoothly, leading to a larger immediate impact on the city’s environment.
Living Lab 1: Repair in Workplaces
Exploring cultures of repair at work
Living Lab 2: Repair Networks in Amsterdam
Connecting local initiatives
Living Lab 3: Sharing in Neighbourhoods
Encouraging community sharing
Through these labs, we’re learning what works and sharing our findings widely.
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