Living Labs
Experiments for a liveable city
We would like to venture the thesis that the city of Berlin, in its diverse project landscape and through its different constellations of actors, can be interpreted as a real-world laboratory in the sense of the overall social task of urban transformation.
In this lived and tangible “laboratory situation”, the StadtManufaktur would like to create a proximity between the Technische Universität Berlin as a research and educational institution and the city or urban society of Berlin. We want to catalyse and further develop the transfer of research and development needs and results – with a focus on a liveable city and the development of transformative science.
There are windows of opportunities for transformation, which may open and close. Both, the city of Berlin in its current phase of development and the TU Berlin as an institution of a transformative science or respectively as an actor of a research with society, open these time windows for transformation.
We would like to use this opportunity to…
- present the diversity of actors within the TU Berlin, their thematic characteristics and clusters.
- form an umbrella or interface for shared discourses, i.e. discourses between education, research and urban society.
- shape research and development needs, research and development results and, to some extent, education and training in a transdisciplinary way, as a lively discourse between university and city.
- achieve a long-term approach to projects, a long-term approach to actors and a long-term approach to the discourse on transformation.
- strengthen the genesis and communication of transformation knowledge and to contribute to the implementation of transformation strategies.
- Thus, StadtManufaktur Berlin focuses on: scenarios and discourses for urban transformation, spaces and alliances of transformation as well as processes of experimentation as a social strategy.