The Living Lab brings cross-sector stakeholders together for local solutions
Exeter, UK
Resilience Brokers has established the Pivot Projects to connect researchers, professionals and interested parties into a cross-sector collaborative to model and investigate the opportunities of creating a green recovery. The Pivot Projects engaged with the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter and established a Living Lab that is supporting students with their studies by focussing on ‘live’ sustainability and resilience challenges, and facilitates the emergence of a cross-sector collaboration for the region to tackle these challenges in and around Exeter.
The Exeter Living Lab helps people use systems tools to co-design solutions that might lead to a greener, fairer recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic in line with Exeter’s Net Zero plan and well-being ambitions. A Living Lab is a virtual place where people from various backgrounds and disciplines come together to address local problems and aspirations through a collaborative system approach. The Living Lab is used as an open innovation platform for local decision makers, organisations and communities; encouraging collaboration to identify local problems and create, prototype and validate solutions. Technical expertise from the Pivot Projects team of global experts are available to support the Exeter Living Lab group in identifying new solutions to meet the region’s aims.
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