Territory production is intended as any process of spatial transformation deriving from a sustainable and reciprocal dialogue between local communities and their spatial context along history time; the territory is a dynamic but durable balance between human settlements and their environments (Magnaghi, 2000). Coherently with this vision territory is a product demanding coordination and strategic effort for balancing micro and macro dynamics. Many of network’s fluxes, forces, trajectories, domains are activated as key dynamics in Living Lab experiences. A living lab is a research concept developed at MIT and has been widely accepted and used/applied in Europe where the innovation dimension has been extended to the social level: “social innovation” intended as both a social process of innovation and/or innovation which has a social purpose. Within Living Labs exploration, experimentation and evaluation activities affects the daily life of users who are involved in a sort of “strategic navigation” a “‘live’ together, with flexibility and adaptability [experience]; a situation of creative experimentation. Depending on circumstances and what seems to work (or not), they [can] change their means (perhaps making a sail, ditching a container), the direction they go in (...) , and perhaps even their goals. Of course, with several people on the raft, they probably will not agree on the direction in which they want to go or the actions they should take to get there” (Hillier, 2010). This concepts of strategic navigation effectively clarifies how LL experiences allow discovery and learning in plural and complex environment when smooth and shared transaction are preferred for radical changes. The main goal of the Observatory being launched at the European Level within the framework of the Periphèria Project. This structure aims at disclosing the social and territorial dimensions of Living Lab implications promoting a disciplinary convergence driven by “design thinking”. The Observatory will be initially established as the Scientific Board of the project and will evolve into a permanent inter-academic entity collaborating with the European Smart Cities Network and with the Enoll in order to capture the social and territorial dimensions of open-innovation processes. Its main goals will be to capture the potential of LL spaces as “lieux de ressources” (human, technical and economic) for socio-digital territorial innovation in a “design thinking” perspective, and to enhance the networking capacity of “people in places”. These diverse visions are developed in a different area of the starting e-environment where deeper interaction is allowed and where narratives are decomposed and re-structured towards a shared story emphasizing the roles of territories. This composition/decomposition is mainly based on a multidimensional concept mapping of the stories where some of the dimensions are strictly derived from the territorialism tradition.
La dimensione territoriale nell’approccio dei Living Labs. Verso i Territorial Living Labs per il sostegno alle città e alle regioni “smart”/The Territorial Dimension of Living Lab Approaches. Towards Territorial Living Lab for smart cities and regions
DE BONIS, Luciano;
2012-01-01
Abstract
Territory production is intended as any process of spatial transformation deriving from a sustainable and reciprocal dialogue between local communities and their spatial context along history time; the territory is a dynamic but durable balance between human settlements and their environments (Magnaghi, 2000). Coherently with this vision territory is a product demanding coordination and strategic effort for balancing micro and macro dynamics. Many of network’s fluxes, forces, trajectories, domains are activated as key dynamics in Living Lab experiences. A living lab is a research concept developed at MIT and has been widely accepted and used/applied in Europe where the innovation dimension has been extended to the social level: “social innovation” intended as both a social process of innovation and/or innovation which has a social purpose. Within Living Labs exploration, experimentation and evaluation activities affects the daily life of users who are involved in a sort of “strategic navigation” a “‘live’ together, with flexibility and adaptability [experience]; a situation of creative experimentation. Depending on circumstances and what seems to work (or not), they [can] change their means (perhaps making a sail, ditching a container), the direction they go in (...) , and perhaps even their goals. Of course, with several people on the raft, they probably will not agree on the direction in which they want to go or the actions they should take to get there” (Hillier, 2010). This concepts of strategic navigation effectively clarifies how LL experiences allow discovery and learning in plural and complex environment when smooth and shared transaction are preferred for radical changes. The main goal of the Observatory being launched at the European Level within the framework of the Periphèria Project. This structure aims at disclosing the social and territorial dimensions of Living Lab implications promoting a disciplinary convergence driven by “design thinking”. The Observatory will be initially established as the Scientific Board of the project and will evolve into a permanent inter-academic entity collaborating with the European Smart Cities Network and with the Enoll in order to capture the social and territorial dimensions of open-innovation processes. Its main goals will be to capture the potential of LL spaces as “lieux de ressources” (human, technical and economic) for socio-digital territorial innovation in a “design thinking” perspective, and to enhance the networking capacity of “people in places”. These diverse visions are developed in a different area of the starting e-environment where deeper interaction is allowed and where narratives are decomposed and re-structured towards a shared story emphasizing the roles of territories. This composition/decomposition is mainly based on a multidimensional concept mapping of the stories where some of the dimensions are strictly derived from the territorialism tradition.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
