Living Lab Handbook

16 August 2019

Photo: UHH/Stecker

Leendert Verhoef and Michael Bossert published "The University Campus as Living Lab for Sustainability – A Practitioners Guide and Handbook", which is available as a free PDF download.

"The goal of this handbook is to help practitioners increase the speed of putting sustainability science and education into practice by maximizing the possibilities of campuses and to speed up sustainability in campuses by maximizing researcher and student input. The book builds on hands-on experience and analyzing operational practice in Living Labs on campuses and in the literature. It attempts to give guidelines as to:

• why we need to speed up innovation and sustainability implementation and why universities should lead the way and are positioned superbly for this role
• what sustainability is (in a nutshell) and what Living Labs are
• where to combine sustainability, Living Labs and university campuses into the approach of ‘Campus as Living Lab‘
• how to start and run a Living Lab and run a process and stakeholder approach
• when the vision of global sustainable campuses willcome true."¹

Free download: "The University Campus as a Living Lab for Sustainability" (PDF, english)
Further information: www.campusaslivinglab.org

¹Verhoef, L.A., and Bossert, M. (2019), The university campus as living lab for sustainability – a practitioners guide and handbook, Delft/Stutgart, p. 4