Eurocities la 27 région - workshop on Urban Labs 16 march 2017

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Workshop Urban Labs Eurocities, Antwerp March 2017, 16th Stéphane Vincent, la 27e Région, France labo de transformation publique

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Workshop Urban Labs Eurocities, Antwerp

March 2017, 16th

Stéphane Vincent, la 27e Région, France

labode

transformationpublique

Anna, research

Stéphane, management

Laura, design

Anne, culture

Nadège, production

Magali, political sciences

Julien, design

Lilas, design

Labs ? Why Labs ?

Inside labs ? How labs ?

Beyond labs ?

Labs ?

Human-centered innovation

Free area for user-tests

A set of tools, methods ans protocols

Cross-disciplinarity

Cross-sectorial and system thinking

LEVEL : URBAN / COUNTY / REGIONAL / NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL

SCOPE : GENERALIST / THEMATIC

SCOPE : GENERALIST / THEMATIC

DEDICATED SPACE / NO SPACE

LABS… WITHOUT NAMING IT LABS

Developers and creators : creating solutions to solve specific challenges Enablers : engaging citizens, non-profits and businesses to find new ideas Educators : Transforming the processes, skills and culture of government Architects : Achieving wider policy and systems change

FOUR MAIN ROLES

Why labs ?

A CRISIS OF INSTITUTIONS

POLICY MAKING PROCESS = OBSOLETE

GROWING PSYCHOSOCIAL RISKS WITHIN GOVERNMENTS

THE RISING OF DIGITAL, ’MAKERS’ AND DIY CULTURES

A MOVEMENT TOWARDS RE-INTERNALIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE (LIKE WITH WATER SUPPLY ?)

« By essence, public institutions are something that must be scanned, explored, researched. Hardly their form is established, then it needs to be redone. » John Dewey

THE EXPERIMENTATION ESSENCE OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

Inside labs

3 immersive weeks in a school in order to get a better understanding of food practices

#ethnography #empathy

EXAMPLES OF ACTIVITY (1)

EXAMPLES OF ACTIVITY (2)

Using co-design methods to visualize what could be improved in the urban vegetation process process#blueprint #servicedesign

EXAMPLES OF ACTIVITY (2)

Prototyping and testing with users a concept of « self-library » cabin, open 24/24

#user-test #rapidprototyping

EXAMPLES OF ACTIVITY (3)

The French Employment Lab incubates start-ups in order to create new services.

#start-up #openinnovation

EXAMPLES OF ACTIVITY (4)

Documenting and opening the whole project and share it

#blogging #photos #videos#opensource #commons

EXAMPLES OF ACTIVITY (5)

project managerchange managerservice designer

sociologistethnographer

participatory architectparticipatory urbanist

social innovatorengineer videast

digital specialistdata specialist

community managercomedian

web journalist…

CROSS-DISCIPLINARITY

pragmatism (John Dewey)

empowerment (Saul Alinsky)

serendipity (Horace Walpole)

abductive reasoning (Charles Sanders Peirce)

system thinking (Alexandre Bogdanov)

evidence-based policy (David M. Eddy)

THEORICAL MINDSETS

How labs ?

LABS AS AN ON-GOING PROCESS

vision & values ?

governance ?

business model ?

management ?

team ?

methods & protocols ?

partnership ?

assessment ?

LABS BUILDERS & FACILITATORS

LABS BUILDERS & FACILITATORS

Beyond labs ?

FIRST STEP

FIRST TESTIMPACT

INSTITUTIONNALIZATION

ECOSYSTEM

COMMUNITY

GUIDANCE

PROBLEM FRAMING

OVERTAKING

DOCUMENTING

INNOVATION TRAJECTORY : SEEKING FOR THE CRITICAL PATH

THE FUTURE OF LABS ?

Lab as a new vehicle for transformation ? (before the next one !)

No need for labs anymore ?

More impactful and systemic ?

More ressources for labs ?

… ?

Thank you for your attention !

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