Framing urban living lab as a multi-dimensional knowledge model: Experiences from Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Wetland Park

Zijing Shen, Junxi Qian, Hong Zhu and Shuang Tian
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Zijing Shen: The University of Hong Kong, China
Junxi Qian: The University of Hong Kong, China
Hong Zhu: Guangzhou University, China
Shuang Tian: South China Normal University, China

Urban Studies, 2025, vol. 62, issue 12, 2436-2454

Abstract: Urban living labs (ULLs) have an experimental and transformative approach towards urban sustainability. Engaging with existing literature on two fields of research in which ULLs figure prominently, namely environmental governance and sustainability transition, this article rethinks hierarchical and institutional perspectives of ULL knowledge co-production that highlight the upscaling of policy models and institutions to achieve social relevance and efficacy. In contrast, this study highlights individual participants who join the ULL incidentally and voluntarily, as well as their embodied and lived knowledge produced in situ in forms of cognitive and behavioural changes. By unfolding the opinions and actions of visitors and volunteers involved in the Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Wetland Park, this article reframes ULLs as multi-dimensional knowledge models consisting of multi-actors and plural forms of knowledge.

Keywords: environmental governance; lived knowledge; non-scalability; sustainability experiment; urban living lab; çŽ¯å¢ƒæ²»ç †; 生活知识; ä¸ å ¯æ‰©å±•æ€§; å ¯æŒ ç»­å ‘å±•å®žéªŒ; 城市生活实验室 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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