Living Lab Project Research Articles

OpenKnowledge and OpenGovernment: the experience of the municip@zione Living Lab project

This work describes the research activity related to the field of open government developed in the municip@zione living lab project. The municip@zione project covers topics of the Italian Digital Agenda and in particular of the Digital Administration. In this work the project is firstly presented, successively the attention is focused on the on the e-participation experiment. The project is still running, but the first results achieved by the analysis carried out until now refer to the concept of “Media Accountability”. Specific attention is paid on the e-participation aspect by considering both technological and social interaction aspects introducing a “conceptual map” tanks to which a cost-benefit analysis can be performed in the field of e-participation.

Designing change by living change

As design for sustainability extends beyond its origins in engineering, and therefore production, increasing attention has been put on the roles technologies and designed artifacts play in mitigating or exacerbating consumption-related impacts. However, there is a prevalence of efforts in user-centered and behavior-based design lacking the systemic perspectives necessary to appropriately address the social nature of consumption. In response, interest has grown for applying theories of social practice to design processes in order to address the socio-technical dynamics behind consumption. This paper introduces a methodology for ‘practice-oriented design’ using collaborative processes of discursive analysis and experimentation in everyday life. A pilot study conducted for the EU Living Lab project, using a case on bathing, demonstrates early exploration work.

Promoting health related sport by using living lab

The purpose of this presentation is to introduce the Living Lab project. Increasing physical activity is one of the main objectives in the prevention and treatment of lifestyle-related diseases. The...