Abstract
Real-world laboratories have made their way into policy programs and corporate agendas. They are expected to foster innovation on both the local and wider societal scales through co-creative settings in the “real world”. Yet little attention has been paid to how these multiple expectations affect micro-level practices and pose challenges for the heterogeneous actors involved in these settings. Two case studies show the emerging tensions relating to participation, temporality and space, and the ways in which participants perceive and deal with them.
Highlights
They are expected to foster innovation on both the local and wider societal scales through co-creative settings in the “real world”
Little attention has been paid to how these multiple expectations affect micro-level practices and pose challenges for the heterogeneous actors involved in Franziska Engels, Jan-Christoph Rogge these settings
Two case studies show the emerging tensions relating to participation, temporality and space, and the ways in which participants perceive and deal with them
Summary
They are expected to foster innovation on both the local and wider societal scales through co-creative settings in the “real world”. The empirical data from these two very different cases allows us to identify emerging tensions inherent to RwLs and the ways participants deal with them in their everyday practices, relating to participation (between cohesion and openness), temporality (between exploration and exploitation), and space (between local and global).
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