Living Lab Institute by practice is embedded in a place, where learning and making happen in relationship with the community and the ecology they inhabit. It is a stand-alone institute for community-academia place-based knowledge co-production.
01 Support Over Solve
Problem-solving can provide short-term relief while we want to create support infrastructures embedded in a place and its public.
02 Experimentation at the Heart
We want to be messy, unfinished, fluid and open over longer term while we critically reflect on failures. In other words a safe to fail ecosystem is essential for us to collectively thrive.
03 Academia-Activism co-exist
We want to explore and create situations to invoke critical questions converging from diverse vantage points with a shared understanding of carefully considered Place-based actions.
04 Care-in-Practice
We begin by acknowledging care can be of many kinds and from a place we learn to care by creating shared moments in specific situations, conditions, and coexistence of care inherent within micro-contexts.
05 Orchestrating from Disciplines
Micro-contexts reveal their qualities partially to a discipline. Its complex interconnected existence demands place-based actions to be orchestrated from various disciplines. Helping to shape a discipline.
06 Slowness is critical
By nature, learning with complexity of a place is slow while the process of learning in a place is responsive.
07 Knowledge production from Living Practice
Everyday living and practice is a space for knowledge production. Our endeavor is to bring these multi-modal ways of knowledge production into processes of co-creation in our network.
08 Place-based actions
The idea of a place encompasses many things, where the process of knowledge production is a result of 'living'. We have found value in repeatedly engaging long-term in a place-based manner.
09 Learning from below
We believe communities have a tacit understanding of problems, challenges and constraints that are experiential. We see our platform as a space for co-learning and learning from below.
10 Culture as a catalyst
Communities and their micro-contexts are sites for cultural production. We want to use culture as a catalyst to build relationships within our network.