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Living-Lab wheel

Living Lab Wheel diagram showing eight stages of co-design, co-implement and co-evaluate for setting up collaborative living labs

The Living Lab Wheel offers practical, step-by-step guidance for setting up and running living labs, collaborative spaces where communities, researchers, and practitioners co-create solutions to real-world challenges.

Designed to support socio-ecological transformations, it provides accessible methods, tools, templates, and resources for every stage of the process. The Living Lab Wheel is adaptable to diverse contexts, making it suitable for projects of different scale, from local community initiatives to large-scale regional transformations.

Whether you're a researcher exploring co-design or a practitioner addressing local challenges like climate change or social inequalities, the Living Lab Wheel empowers you to drive systemic change through experimentation, mutual learning, and scalable solutions.