SearchCampus Alnarp has a long tradition of using the outdoors for testbeds, trial areas and landscape laboratories. In 2022, a PhD project and unique collaboration started, involving Akademiska Hus, SLU Think Tank Movium, SLU Urban Futures and the…
CONEXUS
The Conexus project is working with life-labs in seven European and Latin American cities to implement nature-based solutions. These focal cities share common challenges of sustainable urbanisation and are united by their extensive experience, transdisciplinary approach and vision…
REGREEN – Nature-based solutions
The EU-funded REGREEN project will investigate NBS to restore, improve, enhance and conserve natural capital and biodiversity. It will help build climate resilience in cities, improve liveability, and contribute to building inclusive communities, in line with urban priorities.…
Projects granted seed funding in the call for critical living labs
SLU Urban Futures granted funding to three interdisciplinary projects in 2023. The projects explore living labs or take a critical living lab approach to research.
SOIL at Botildenborg
The Botildenborg Foundation in Malmö runs a farm and meeting place, combining urban gardening with social activities. Since the spring of 2024, SLU Urban Futures has been part of the project SOIL - a Social Innovation Living Lab,…
Getting our Cities Right #3 – From Green Infrastructure to Urban Forestscapes
Read about Getting our Cities Right #3 - Umeå
How can Living Labs contribute to sustainable urban transformation?
A short clip where some of the speakers at the conference Getting our Cities Right #2 in Alnarp reflect on Living Laboratories as a methodology to create more sustainable urban landscapes.
Getting our Cities Right #2 – From Living Laboratories to urban healthscapes
In October 2022 the second conference of SLU Urban Futures’ series Getting Our Cities Right took place at SLU Campus Alnarp. The focus was on Living Laboratories as new formats for research, teaching, and societal interaction. Read the…
Living labs – Gröna Fakta 6/2022
(Article in Swedish) 'Living labs, levande laboratorier, kan vara ett förhållningssätt och en arena för samproduktion av kunskap och utforskning i realtid och i direkt koppling med omgivningen. Med exempel från olika platser lyfts i detta Gröna Fakta…
The time is ripe for a Living Lab Campus
Campus Alnarp has a long tradition of using the outdoors for testbeds, trial areas and landscape laboratories. In the autumn of 2022 a new doctoral project in Alnarp will explore the possibilities of using the landscapes of the…
Living Lab SLU Landscape – collaboration-capacity building
This initiative, running since 2015, focuses on inter-disciplinary engagements within a university context, with the aim of developing tools for synthetically bridging geographically isolated, and historically separate academic research domains.
The Campus as a Living Lab – How Utrecht University is co-producing targeted sustainability solutions
Society faces a multitude of complex sustainability challenges, which require new ways of thinking and doing. Universities, with their assets and knowledge, play an influential role in facilitating such change by collaborating across disciplines and sectors.
Alnarp’s Living Lab Landscape
Alnarp can be seen as an agricultural and forest island in the highly urbanized region of Malmö, in the south of Sweden. The dynamic campus landscape constitutes a valuable resource for transdisciplinary research, teaching and collaboration.
SLU Urban Futures meets Michel Desvigne
Alnarp Campus is situated in the increasingly urbanized Öresund region. With its vast park and outdoor areas it can develop into a unique venue for students, scientists and citizens into a Green Living Laboratory for sustainable development.
Campus Lab Landscapes: Creating dialogue between Alnarp, Uppsala, and Umeå
During the SLU Landscape Days 2021, SLU Urban Futures hosted an interactive workshop to open a dialogue on conceptualizing and creating living labs on university campuses. Read more about the event and the definitions of living labs.
SLU Multisensory Outdoor Laboratory – Sensola
How do we best understand the role of various outdoor environments in everyday life? Humans interact with urban and natural environments in ways that are dynamic, complex and multisensory. New portable technology makes it possible to study these…
Lab Stories – Alnarp Rehabilitation Garden
Alnarp Rehabilitation Garden is one of SLU's living labs and an arena that invites to multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary research and collaboration. SLU Urban Futures met Anna María Pálsdóttir and Vanessa Mårtensson to learn more about this kind…
Lab Stories – Alnarp Landscape laboratory
(Video in Swedish) SLU Urban Futures met Björn Wiström and Erik Svensson in charge of the maintenance and development of the Alnarp Landscape Laboratory, covering about 20 hectares of land for experimental design, construction and management.
Lab Stories – Ekostaden Augustenborg
Ekostaden (The Eco City) Augustenborg is one of Sweden´s largest urban sustainability projects. We met up with SLU researcher Tobias Emilsson to hear more about SLU's role in the Vinnova project 'Testbed for Green-Blue Urban Solutions'.
Anthology: The eco-city Augustenborg – Experiences and lessons learned
Augustenborg is a unique and successful example of socio-economic transformation in combination with ecological rehabilitation. The lessons and experience from Augustenborg can provide valuable insights on local implementation of SDG11.
Landscape Laboratory Alnarp 2.0 – towards a Landscape Lab Office
The Alnarp Landscape Lab can be identified as a new form of wooded urban open space and a living lab for urban woods, accessible to urban publics as much as to urban researchers, teachers, and students.
Circular food production in urban contexts
By taking advantage of resource flows, competencies and activities in the Ultuna area, this project wants to create synergies with the expansive urban development now taking place in Uppsala, by creating a living laboratory for new research and…
Co-creation!
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