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This report aims to contribute to developing customized approaches for setting up, questioning and/or elaborating Urban Living Lab (ULL) approaches in the context of the regeneration of large-scale social estates and, more generally, deprived contexts. The literature review is illustrated with several existing foreign and domestic best practice examples of Living Lab cases in underprivileged areas. It therefore revisits literature on participatory planning, co-design and Urban Living Labs.
In the context of the SoHoLab research, this is the result of the second investigation (T2.2) that intends to guide the development of a tailored methodological framework for Urban Living Labs. Each university partner adopts different research angles, in relationship to its own institutional and planning context (Paris (Longjumeau, Taverny, Fresnes), Milan (San Siro) and Brussels (Peterbos), stage of the Living Lab and according to its own research disciplines

Un territoire jeune et économiquement très dynamique mais confronté au chômage de masse et aux défis de la mixité sociale et culturelle. C’est ici qu’à la demande de Patrick Braouezec, le président de Plaine Commune, le philosophe Bernard Stiegler initie un projet d’expérimentation inédit et ambitieux : faire de cette communauté d’agglomération – qui réunit neuf villes de Seine-Saint-Denis – un « territoire apprenant contributif ». Y seront menés des projets de « recherche-action » contributive, c’est-à-dire incluant les habitants ; à terme, il s’agira de mettre en place un revenu contributif pour partager différemment la richesse à l’heure où l’automatisation fait vaciller l’emploi. En novembre 2016, les premiers chercheurs ont fait leur rentrée dans le cadre d’une chaire de recherche contributive créée au sein de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH-Paris Nord). The Conversation France a rencontré le philosophe pour en savoir plus sur cette initiative, où nouvelles façons de faire de la recherche et réflexion sur ce que le travail sera demain vont dialoguer.

Das "mobility lab" soll solche Ideen für Graz sammeln und ausprobieren. Die vier Schwerpunkte sind: Mobilitätsbewusstsein, Stadtregionale Entwicklung, Verkehrsmanagement 2.0 und Autonomes Fahren. Ein erstes konkretes Projekt wurde bereits beschlossen: "Sowas", ein Logistikprojekt, wird zum Beispiel beim neuen Brauquartier in Puntigam getestet. Es ist eine Art überdimensionaler Briefkasten, den sowohl Privatpersonen als auch Logistikdienstleister nutzen können. Das Ziel: Zustell- und Abholwege zu reduzieren.

Urban problems such as traffic congestion, safety and pollution are difficult to tackle as the mitigation involves multiple stakeholders. The aim of Looper was to develop new ways of decision-making that bring together citizens, stakeholders and policy-makers by building a participatory co-creation methodology and platform that demonstrate ‘learning loops’.
The Looper model addressed the whole co-creation process. Citizens and stakeholders debated on topical issues, then framed the problem and collected data. The Looper platform visualized the data, and enabled the co-design of solutions which were evaluated and the best were put into practice and monitored. The platform was tested in three living labs in Brussels, Verona and Manchester.

The purpose of this report is to investigate the contexts of large-scale social estates in Brussels, Milan and Paris. It does this by providing an overview of the architecture and planning history of social housing within the 3 city regions and by positioning the production of large-scale social estates within this framework. Special attention is given to the last 15 years and the different measures developed for tenant participation and housing regeneration, be it informed by institutional policies, inhabitants initiatives or third sector promoted interventions. Indeed, we try to consider all types of social and spatial interventions that impact on these sites and its inhabitants. By zooming in on several sites within the three cities, these regeneration practices are discussed and critically evaluated in terms of social-spatial quality. Being an ongoing LivingLab experience, in the case of Milan, the main focus is on the site under study, while the analyses of the city regions of Brussels and Paris, in which new LivingLabs are set up, are informed by regeneration practices in similar estates.

Transpolis has been created to design and build a 200 acres urban mobility lab to innovate, test, showcase technologies and solutions from a wide range of strategic partners. This urban mobility lab is currently under construction in the Lyon region with the aim of opening at the end of 2018. The comprehensive year-round proving ground will be dedicated to experimentation of a very large variety of scenarios and use cases that are mandatory for the development of connected, automated and even autonomous vehicles (CAV technology).