Living Lab Workshop and Showcase

Name: living-lab-workshop-and-showcase
Start: 2026-02-11T14:00:00.0000000+00:00
End: 2026-02-11T16:00:00.0000000+00:00

Key Information:

This event has now passed.

It has been 2 years since the inception of the Living Lab idea. We now have over 60 members and many ongoing and planned projects in the logbook.

This workshop is to:

showcase what projects have been happening
explore a collective vision for evolving the Living Lab concept with clear steps to move it forward
discuss how aspects of UWE’s work (Open Research and Digital Twinning) can align with this concept
share further project wishes with those wanting the projects and those looking for projects!

Please come along with a wish to learn, share and collaborate.

Time	Agenda
14:00	Welcome and introduction with Dr Jill Zhao, Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Construction Technology & Kirsti Norris, Head of Carbon & Energy
14:20	Living Lab Vision with Professor Darren Reynolds, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange
14:35	Living Lab examples: James Burch and Tavs Jorgensen: Cob Club 1 & 2: Earthly Enquiries Ubaid Ullah, MSc Environmental Management graduate and Chidiebere Okere, MSc Project Management graduate: using Purdown View Jeff Davey: biodiversity, waste management and environmental auditing Laura Fogg-Rogers and Kat Corbett: Making and Knowledge Exchange for Repair and Sustainability – UWE’s Repair Café and opportunities with the Bristol Repair Coalition
15:20	Discussion on the evolution of the UWE Living Lab initiative What else is happening around UWE? (REE, Open Research….) Visioning what does a UWE Living Lab initiative looks like How do we interact – what resources, support, process and tech is needed?
15:30	Open Space options: Open Research – how connect this with Living Lab? How can we make it happen? Digital Twinning – how connect this with Living Lab? How can we make it happen? Working Group interest for developing proposition for UWE LL evolution Two-way marketplace: projects you would like students/researchers to take up (for example, Fairtrade) student groups in need of projects! Space for other discussions to be held
15:50	Closing with Darren, Kirsti and Jill
16:00	Close