Living labs: how will they work?

In SATOCONN –

Stage 1 analysing connections between people and the landscape, assessing the condition of the system and its challenges (SILA diagnosis + qualitative interaction with community/key actors, mapping linkages and structures, considering drivers and dynamics)

Stage 2 discussing findings, co-developing a SWOT, developing ideas for change – interviews, workshops, identify local value, events to engage different actors, draw in policy and market knowledge/analysis from different groups and beyond, learn by sharing across labs

Stage 3 testing change: trials or pilots or initiatives to see how new ideas can be realised in practice, and learn together (researchers, policymakers and the ‘community of practice’)

Stage 4 reviewing, concluding, comparing, roll-out: telling the story, enabling wider application / general recommendations, via engagement locally and nationally