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Mistra SAMS

WP Living Lab Design

The focus of this work package is to provide learning spaces for all work packages, researchers and partners involved regarding how digitally supported mobility and accessibility services can be designed and developed to contribute significantly to climate neutrality and social justice.

Task L1: Setting up and running living labs


Task L1 involves setting up and running Living Lab 3  (together with the other work packages) and includes practical and hands-on work in creating and sustaining them. Task L1 also involves sustaining Living Lab 2  which is already running as part of Mistra SAMS Phase 1

Task L2: Exploring practice links through design


The overall aim of this task is to advance knowledge on how practice-oriented design can support change (Kuijer, 2014), by using practices as a design material (Hesselgren, 2019). The task is based upon an understanding that materials, skills and cultural meanings all form elements of practices, and when new links between these elements are shaped, new practices can emerge (Shove et al., 2012).

Task L2 studies how materials and places (physical and/or digital) introduced in the living lab interventions, make or break links that enable sustainable mobility practices. To be able to shift these practices in sustainability directions, better understanding of practice elements is needed since mobility practices often are routinised. Task L2 supports tasks L1 and C3 by paying attention to materials and materialities in staging the interventions and exploring citizens perspectives.

The task will address the following research questions:

  • What materials are used by citizens who engage in sustainable mobility practices? What materials are required for sustainable mobility practices to emerge and be maintained?
  • How can the introduction of thoughtfully designed materials be used to explore sustainable mobility practices? How can these materials mitigate car-dependent practices and shift the use of unsustainable transport into sustainable mobility practices

Task L3: Advancing collaborative design methods in living labs


This task aims to explore and develop collaborative design and transdisciplinary research methods deployed within this work package, and specifically advance knowledge of designerly living lab methods. Task L3 aims to build knowledge on how these design methods can be useful for exploring pathways for transformations towards sustainable accessibility and mobility. It will also explore how transformative capacities of public and market actors can be identified and harnessed through collaborative design research methods.

This task will address the following research questions:

  • How can designerly living-lab methods support transdisciplinary research collaboration? What types of knowledge are produced through this type of collaboration? What barriers need to be mitigated?
  • How do design methods used within designerly living labs support stakeholders in a transformative process toward sustainable mobility and accessibility?