Co-creating Conversations asks local and visiting researchers, practitioners and makers to consider their roles in building and contributing to lab life. Through this project, we seek to understand what it means to work and innovate in these shared living spaces, and how people work to actively redefine innovative processes of all sorts. We asked people to explain what strategies they employed to shape their labs into spaces that are receptive of ideas, inclusive of a wide-range of people, and encouraging of collaboration. How have people been successful in stepping out of the lab and bringing their ideas into the community, and, conversely, in bringing communities into the lab?

Co-creating Conversation is a project by Concordia University’s Faculty of Arts and Science, carried out in collaboration with Ageing + Communication + Technologies (ACT). It features interviews edited as short audio capsules that provide listeners with a glimpse into lab life here in Montreal and in other locales.

Participants

  • Adel Alimi
    Sfax Smart City Living Lab
  • Amanda Third
    Young and Resilient Living Labs
  • An Jacobs
    iMinds
  • Andrew Switzer et al.
    Hogenschool van Amsterdam
  • Ann-Louise Davidson
    Associate Professor of Education, Concordia University
  • Anne-Claude Cosandey
    Smart Living Lab
  • Artur Serra
    i2Cat Fundacion
  • Constance Lafontaine
    Ageing + Communication + Technologies (ACT)
  • Émilie Champagne
    Senior Advisor, Strategic Initiatives and Special Projects
  • Giuliana Cucinelli
    Assistant Professor of Education, Concordia University
  • Janis Timm-Bottos
    Art Hives Network
  • Kim Sawchuk
    Mobile Media Lab
  • Koby Rogers Hall
    Artists’ Block of the Immigrant Workers Center
  • Krista Geneviève Lynes
    Feminist Media Studio
  • Louise Guay
    Living Lab de Montréal
  • Lynn Hughes
    Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG)
  • Mary Elizabeth Luka
    Narratives in Space + Time Society
  • Monique Chartrand
    Communautique
  • Nathalie Bier
    Professeure agrégée, Université de Montréal
  • Nikitasha Kapoor
    District 3
  • Olivia Perryman
    Carleton University
  • Pieter Ballon
    iMinds
  • Robert Viseur
    Centre d’Excellence en Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication
  • Samantha Slade
    Percolab
  • Sara Hylten-Cavallius
    Småland Region Living Lab
  • Sonja Pedell
    Future Self and Design Lab
  • Stan Majoor
    Amsterdam Urban Field Lab
  • Steeven Pedneault
    Trajectoire
  • Sylvie Gendreau
    Cahiers de l’imaginaire
  • Tagny Duff
    Speculative Life Lab
  • Thais Vieira
    Desis Network, Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability
  • Thien-Thanh Dang-Vu
    Concordia University Research Chair in Sleep, Neuroimaging and Cognitive Health
  • Yilmaz Cakir
    Basaksehir Living Lab and Starters Hub

Keywords

(Participatory) Action Research Age-Friendly City Aging Art Art Hives Cities and Smart Cities Citizens’ Labs Co-Creation Collaboration Creativity Digital Technologies Disability Diverse Voices Empowerment Environment Feminism Gaming Health and Well-Being Human interaction Inclusion/Exclusion Innovation Intellectual Property Intergenerationality Knowledge Sharing Leadership Living Labs Maker Culture Media Mobile Applications Mobilities monitor Montreal Place and Space Product Development Quality of Life Sleep Smart Cities Storytelling Sustainability Testing Transformation and Change Transportation Urbanity Walking Workplace
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