By Marina Knickel and Guido Caniglia
2. Guido Caniglia (biography)
What is required for social learning in living labs? How can social learning be mapped in living labs?
Living labs are conceived as spaces for social learning across difference in real-world situations through transdisciplinary research with diverse actors. We argue that the following conditions, often intertwined and building on each other, are required to set up living labs as learning spaces:
1. Epistemic: Learning to foster knowledge pluralism
We suggest supporting research and practice partners in developing a capacity for knowledge pluralism as the ability to appreciate and work with multiple kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing. Knowledge pluralism could be fostered by learning to recognise differences in knowledge, perspectives and socio-cultural identities as strengths and by strategically valorising them.