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Transforming universities through co- production? Shared territories and living labs James Evans

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Transforming universities through co-

production? Shared territories and living

labs

James Evans

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Key points

• Campuses are being reframed as living labs for sustainability

• Living labs provide framework to strategically align co-

production activities temporally and thematically

• Projects act as shared territories around which actors

coalesce and critically reflect

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The opportunity: academic resource

3500

2500

1500

500

EPS

Humanities

FLS

Interdisciplinary

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•85 hectare campus

•Over 300 buildings

•Over 45,000 students

and staff.

•£1bn to be spent on

capital projects in the next

decade

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

before

1840

1840-

1914

1915-

1939

1940-

1959

1960-

1979

since

1980

The opportunity: campus test bed

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EPS Biomedical

Humanities

North

campus

New Campus

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Living lab approach

Institutionally bounded

environment in which

to make material

interventions in the

(real) world and learn

from them in a

rigorous way’

Monitor

Experiment

Learn

Evans, J. and Karvonen, A. (2014) Give me a laboratory and I will lower your carbon footprint!’ – Urban Laboratories and

the Pursuit of Low Carbon Futures. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 38 (2), 413-430

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• Geographically and/or

institutionally bounded space

• Conduct intentional

experiments designed to

enable innovation and

iterative learning

• Involve users in knowledge

co-production

•Promise useful and/or

generalisable knowledge

BUT hard to assess actual

impacts

Characteristics of lab style governance

Silver, J. and Marvin, S. (Forthcoming) Emerging Styles of Urban

Experimentation. In: Evans, J., Karvonen, A. and Raven, R. (Eds.) The

Experimental City. Routledge, London

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University Living Lab: goals

• Collate existing and potential research and teaching activities for the UoM

campus

• Collate current and planned Estates activities (new build, retrofit and

management) and relevant data

• Establish venues for constructive collaboration between researchers and

Estates

• Apply for long-term funding from the public and private sectors

• Produce a roadmap for future UoM living lab activities

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Public Sector Government

People Civic Society

Academia Higher Education Private Sector

Businesses

Thematic coherence: Manchester Cycling Lab

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Velocity

2025

Develop a strong shared vision

TfGM Cycling Strategy

1. Identify citizen’s needs & ideas

Test & demonstrate for

continuous learning

Monitor & evaluate for

continuous improvement

Programmes,

Infrastructure &

Regulation

2. Smart Infrastructure Planning

3. MCR’s Green Economy

Baseline to measure

potential & progress

Explore new ideas

and opportunities

Role of universities in supporting transition

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Shared Territory: Triangulum

• Horizon 2020 Project, €25m

• Manchester, Eindhoven, and Stavanger

• Develop low-carbon smart districts

• Integrated approach to Energy, Transport and ICT

• Key roles for cities and industries… AND universities

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Manchester actions

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Transforming Universities?

• Co-production needs coordination

- Living labs?

• Project-based actions bring new

actors together to work in new

ways

- Shared territories?

- Transformation as re-

subjectivation