Extended partnership and knowledge sharing: the RETURN Urban Living Lab approach to social-ecological-technological innovation

The RETURN Extended Partnership aims to produce and share knowledge about environmental, natural and anthropogenic risks by promoting the active and proactive involvement of several interdisciplinary research groups, industrial partners and stakeholders. Against this scenario, the activities of Spoke TS1-Urban and Metropolitan Settlements included, among many initiatives, the activation of a series of workshops on the Urban Living Lab model in the Site of National Interest of Bagnoli-Coroglio aimed at sharing knowledge and experiencing processes of co-exploration, co-design and co-testing. The objective of the workshops organised according to the Urban Living Lab methodology is to develop cognitive and operational processes in which the technical approach enables the integration of socio-cultural and ecological-biophysical dimensions in the design processes.