Culwick, C;
Washbourne, C-L;
Anderson, PML;
Cartwright, A;
Patel, Z;
Smit, W;
(2019)
CityLab reflections and evolutions: nurturing knowledge and learning for urban sustainability through co-production experimentation.
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
, 39
pp. 9-16.
10.1016/j.cosust.2019.05.008.
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Abstract
Applied research has evolved to play an important role in understanding and reorienting relationships between different knowledge partnerships in urban sustainability. This paper reflects on experiences from the global South on knowledge co-production experiments through ‘CityLabs’, which are forums for bringing together different knowledge brokers (particularly government and academia) to co-produce policy-relevant urban knowledge. Each CityLab experimented with different configurations to generate knowledge relevant for addressing urban sustainability challenges. This paper reflects on these experiences and identifies emerging common principles. These include: deliberate formulation of safe spaces, in which to engage, willingness for flexibility around the direction, focus and outputs, and carefully fostering trust and mutual understanding among participants. Urban experimentation, and CityLabs in particular, provide real opportunities for facilitating learning, reframing issues and shifting practices around urban sustainability between government and the academy.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | CityLab reflections and evolutions: nurturing knowledge and learning for urban sustainability through co-production experimentation |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.05.008 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.05.008 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > STEaPP |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10077476 |
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