Festivals as Living Labs for System Innovation: Experiences from the interdisciplinary innovation programme DORP

Aranka M. Dijkstra; Siebrith M. Tiekstra; Marije Boonstra; Peter Joore

Festivals as Living Labs for System Innovation: Experiences from the interdisciplinary innovation programme DORP

Aranka M. Dijkstra^*, Siebrith M. Tiekstra, Marije Boonstra, Peter Joore

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Abstract

The use of Living Labs is a promising approach to develop and test sustainable system innovations. A Living Lab approach that is yet to be discussed in literature, is that of a Festival Living Lab (FLL). Festivals can be considered as temporary mini societies with systemic sustainability challenges regarding water, energy, housing, logistics, waste management, food and behaviour. Since a festival is built up from scratch every time the event is hosted, adjustments can be made to its overarching system, and mutual interrelations between different aspects of the system can be experimented with. To evaluate the potential of FLLs as effective real-life experimentation settings for sustainable system innovation we present the Living Lab Activity Framework (LLAF), distinguishing various innovation stages and system levels. We deploy the LLAF to evaluate a selection of innovation projects within the DORP Festival Living Lab at the Welcome to The Village festival in The Netherlands, demonstrating that festivals can host various stages of the innovation process on different system levels.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the OpenLivingLab Days Conference 2023
Subtitle of host publication	“Living Labs for an Era of Transitions" How human-centric innovation is changing our lives
Editors	Dimitri Schuurman
Publisher	European Network of Living Labs
Pages	28-47
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9789464668612
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	OpenLivingLab Days Conference 2023: Living Labs for an Era of Transitions. How human-centric innovation is changing our lives - World Trade Center Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Duration: 21 Sept 2023 → 23 Sept 2023 https://openlivinglabdays.com

Conference

Conference	OpenLivingLab Days Conference 2023
Abbreviated title	OLLD
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	21/09/23 → 23/09/23
Internet address	https://openlivinglabdays.com

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Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care
Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

Festival Living Lab
Real-Life Experimentation
Evaluative Framework
Sustainable System Innovation

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Dijkstra, A. M., Tiekstra, S. M., Boonstra, M., & Joore, P. (2023). Festivals as Living Labs for System Innovation: Experiences from the interdisciplinary innovation programme DORP. In D. Schuurman (Ed.), Proceedings of the OpenLivingLab Days Conference 2023: “Living Labs for an Era of Transitions" How human-centric innovation is changing our lives (pp. 28-47). European Network of Living Labs.

Dijkstra, Aranka M. ; Tiekstra, Siebrith M. ; Boonstra, Marije et al. / Festivals as Living Labs for System Innovation : Experiences from the interdisciplinary innovation programme DORP. Proceedings of the OpenLivingLab Days Conference 2023: “Living Labs for an Era of Transitions" How human-centric innovation is changing our lives . editor / Dimitri Schuurman. European Network of Living Labs, 2023. pp. 28-47

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Festivals as Living Labs for System Innovation: Experiences from the interdisciplinary innovation programme DORP. / Dijkstra, Aranka M.; Tiekstra, Siebrith M.; Boonstra, Marije et al.
Proceedings of the OpenLivingLab Days Conference 2023: “Living Labs for an Era of Transitions" How human-centric innovation is changing our lives . ed. / Dimitri Schuurman. European Network of Living Labs, 2023. p. 28-47.

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Festivals as Living Labs for System Innovation: Experiences from the interdisciplinary innovation programme DORP

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