NeugestaltNeugestaltung urbaner Freiräume – Einblicke in das Reallabor Wuppertalung urbaner Freiräume – Einblicke in das Reallabor Wuppertal

Alexandra Palzkill; Karoline Augenstein

doi:10.14512/rur.43

Authors

Alexandra Palzkill Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Karoline Augenstein Bergische Universität Wuppertal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14512/rur.43

Keywords:

Urban real-world labs, Livable urban space, Civil society initatives, Experiments, Reflexivity, Wuppertal

Abstract

Cities as places of sustainability transformation are becoming increasingly important in sustainability and transition research. One of the key questions is how to proactively promote and spread urban sustainability niches. Real-world laboratories are an approach that uses experiments at the sciene-society interface to reflect sustainability challenges in a concrete (urban) context and to proactively foster complex transformation processes. This paper discusses real-world labs as spaces for experimentation and reflexive learning and introduces institutional logics and narratives as conceptual approaches to analyse these. This approach is illustrated using a case study from the real-world laboratory Wuppertal. Together with the civil society initiative “Utopiastadt”, an experiment was carried out to develop liveable urban space. Based on the results of the case study, key methodological features and the specific understanding of experiments in real-world labs are discussed. They are related to experimental approaches in planning science in order to discuss the different understandings and expectations with regard to the use of experiments as well as the potential contributions and complementarities between the two fields of research.

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