LoLa Living Lab Template

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Area	please enter the area name here
Place	please enter the town/village name
Country	please enter the country here
Topics	please enter the main topics of your living lab
Author(s)	Please enter your name(s)- optional
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Context and Background

• From which perspective are you documenting this case?
• Describe the authors' disciplines and roles in relation to the described living lab context?
• Format: 3-4 sentences

Rationale

• Why is this case study relevant?
• Format: 3-4 sentences

Location and scope

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Your Landscape System Context

• What is your 'entry' / focus system?
• What are the main cross-links to other systems?
• Please represent this by a general system map (upload file and place below)

General orientation

• Provide some general framework of the geographical / spatial / socio-economic context
• report known issues and challenges
• Use open access maps if possible (set links or upload maps)

Your Local Living Lab Process

• Describe your local community outreach process: who is involved and how, in which formats
• Describe your process of participatory system knowledge creation
• Develop a community / actor map / power map
• Describe the methods applied in this process

Retrospective of your Landscape System

• How did the system operate in the past?
• What made it change (drivers, pressures)?
• Which impact did this change have?
• Develop your analysis based on our Systems Thinking Framework:
  • Recognizing the parts of the system and their interconnections
  • Identifying and understanding feedback (cause-effect loops) within the landscape system by taking natural, social, cultural and economic systems and their impact on land use and land form into account.
  • Understanding system structure and system boundary
  • Differentiating types of flows and variables. These are partially also the resources in the system
  • Identifying and understanding non-linear relationships .For example:small changes in one variable may result in large changes in another variable.
  • Understanding dynamic system behaviour, integrate properties of complex systems
  • Use conceptual models, reducing complexity by modeling systems conceptually, intuitive simplification is allowed, as long as you know that you are simplifying.
  • Always try to understanding systems at different scales
  • Integrate actors and governance, power structures

Water as a cultural space

Land use and water

• map the land uses along your water areas: settlements, infrastructure, agriculture, resource extraction, natural areas, energy production...
• describe in particular the historical evolution of land use pattern, please make use of historical maps
• description evolution, status quo and driving forces, is the land use likely to change? Why is that? (approx 200 signs)
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Cultural and spatial typologies of water areas

• Which spatial patterns have evolved in relation to your water areas?
• What is the role of water areas within the overall urban morphology? (approx 200 signs)
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Sacred spaces and heritage

• Which places/elements hold cultural value and to whom?
• You may add a map and some images, please also explain in your caption why these elements are valuable

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Visual appearance and landscape narrative

• Which elements are essential for the landscape character?
• Has the landscape been painted or otherwise depicted, when and whom? Which elements are essential?
• Which narratives exist? Who has written about this landscape or depicted it in some way?
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Water and People

Accessibility and usability

• Where are your water areas accessible, and where not? How strong are spatial obstacles preventing access?
• Who is using the spaces and how?

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Community Mapping

What is to be mapped here?

• Social groups from within the community, for example the youth, kids, students, parents, the retired etc. Typically, these groups have specific needs, which you can also make explicit on the map. These people might not be organized in any way, but they are usually present in the context you are observing
• Local stakeholder groups: these groups are organized in one or the other way. They only exist within the community context you are observing. For example: the local community center, local churches, local interest groups, the landowners, small businesses and retailers
• External stakeholder groups are not necessarily present in the environment you are observing, but they may have strong stakes and interests. These can be local authorities, politicians, associations, care services etc.
• For each group, you may identify their needs, objectives, power and capacities
• You may also identify gaps and power conflicts
• Please try to redepict these elements in an integrated way and in relation to your water landscape. What is the relationship between these groups? Are they close or distanced from each other? Who is more powerful? Which voices are hardly heard? Do they have any shared concerns?

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Possible Futures

• You can summarize your findings with a SWOT diagram and a DPSI(R) Model
• Link back to the Sustainable Development Goals: Which goals are at risk?
• What are possible future scenarios for your water landscape?
• Present your scenarios in the form of a collage or sketch
• Add text and visuals

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Collaborative Goal Setting

• Define strategic planning objectives based on the evaluation findings from your analysis
• Ideally, involve the community of your living labs into this process
• Link back to your original targets from section one and the Development Goals
• 150 words text contribution

Spatial Strategy and Transect

• translate your strategic goals into a vision
• develop a spatial translation of your vision
• exemplify your vision in the form of a transect with concrete interventions
• add map(s) and visualizations

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From Theory of Change to Implementation

• For implementing your vision: Which partnerships are needed? Which governance model is required?
• Who needs to act and how? Draw and explain a change/process model/timeline
• Which resources are needed? On which assets can you build?
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References

• give a full list of the references you have used for your case

Process Reflection

• Reflect in your intercultural and interdisciplinary team on the outcomes of your study
• Which limitations were you facing?
• What have you learnt from each other?
• What did you learn in the Living Labs?
• What would you do differently next time?
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