Challenge #24
Exploring the future together in the lab.
In “real labs,” scientists and citizens, as pioneers of change, work hand in hand for a sustainable future. The “laboratory” is in fact their real, everyday living environment.
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The “Great Transformation” of our society toward a sustainable way of life and economy concerns everyone and can only succeed if we work together. For this reason, we developed “real labs” as facilities with a focus on transdisciplinary research where sustainability experiments can be conducted in a real-world environment in order to spark off transformation processes while simultaneously generating knowledge about them.
Whether the topic addressed in the real lab be energy transition, sustainable mobility, a circular economy, or social cohesion, it is important that researchers and social actors enter into direct dialog and work together on an equal footing. With real labs, we open up spaces for cooperative experiments, creating space and opportunities for new things. We involve citizens in a significant fashion and understand transformation not only as a research process, but also as an educational process.
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