The nice people of Forum Virium organized a seminar in Paris with the topic Cities as Living laboratories. We have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion of what is a living lab by presenting our approach to co-design in 2 key projects: 1) with the work we have been doing in developing new services for city-citizens interaction and specifically Urban Mediator software, 2) and work done with the Active Seniors association and DailyWorks a digital daily life management infrastructure for their communal house.

The slides of the presentations are available from the site that Helsinki greater promotion are has for their Living lab initiative.

Our main point: living labs are not yet-another-test-bed, but should truly develop sustainable cooperation with local communities and take a co-design approach. I was told Joanna's presentation in French was very nice, and the video that Kari-Hans produced with the help of the Active Seniors was straight to the point. We hope to have a version of it to publish soon.