Living Labs: Agents for Change
Guest editors: Nicola Antaki, Doina Petrescu & Vera Marin
Deadline for abstracts: 10 February 2025 (noon GMT)
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What are the roles and impacts that living labs play in increasing civic resilience and supporting ecological transition in different contexts and at different scales?
This special issue examines the roles that living labs have in creating or enhancing resilience in local communities. What mediation methods are used in the different stages of collaboration? How can success or efficacy be measured? What lessons arise about transferability between different labs / situations? What inventive methodologies are developed/used in living labs within different contexts and at different scales?
Timeline
Abstracts due
10 February 2025
Full papers due
14 April 2025 NB: authors can submit sooner if they wish
Referees’ comments
21 July 2025
Revised version due
29 September 2025
Full issue published
January 2026. NB: papers are published as soon as they are accepted
Briefing note for contributors
We welcome different kinds of contributions (e.g. research, policy analysis, synthesis) not only from researchers but also from practitioners, policy makers and activists in the field.
You are invited to submit an abstract for this special issue. Please send a 500 word (maximum) abstract to editor Richard Lorch [email protected] by 10 February 2025. Your submission must also include these 3 items:
- the author's and all co-author's names, institutional & departmental affiliations and contact details
- the question(s) or topic(s) in this Call for Papers that the abstract and intended paper address
- the abstract (300 - 500 words maximum) defining the research question(s), scope, methods and results
More information can be found online: www.buildingsandcities.org & published papers are found here: https://journal-buildingscities.org
General guidance for authors can be found at https://www.buildingsandcities.org/pdf/Information-for-Authors.pdf
Questions?
The Editors are happy to discuss ideas with potential authors. Please contact: Richard Lorch [email protected] , Nicola Antaki [email protected] , Doina Petrescu [email protected] , Vera Marin [email protected] .
