Urban Living Labs (ULL) can change the way we think of and actually practice urban governance. ULL are experimental approaches to address societal challenges by facilitating co-creation in everyday urban settings. They are spaces to experiment with new policies, co-design and test new methods to tackle specific urban challenges and for exploring new governance models under outside the conventional R&I laboratories. These urban living labs deal with multifaceted urban issues and are tools to maintain science-policy-society co-creation. Due to their territorial anchoring they are highly context specific. As van Steenbergen and Frantzeskaki showed, ULL can be instruments to (unintentionally) contribute to placemaking by connecting between (social) innovation and urban development. Hence, links between places (as well as non-human living entities) and people are generated, maintained and/or re-shaped, which may foster a sense of place and in turn urban sustainability transformation through these changing spaces. In this workshop, we will (1) exchange experiences of the participants in ULLs connected to place making; (2) identify requirements to ensure longer-term impacts of ULL and capacity building, and (3) reflect on the significance and needs for actions. This session will be organised as an activity of JPI Urban Europe’s AGORA (https://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/agora/).
