Why do we have labs in governant? And what beyond labs?

1. Workshop Urban Labs
Eurocities, Antwerp
March 2017, 16th
Stéphane Vincent,
la 27e Région, France
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2. Anna, research
Stéphane, management
Laura, design
Anne, culture
Nadège, production
Magali, political sciences
Julien, design
Lilas, design

3. Labs ?
Why Labs ?
Inside labs ?
How labs ?
Beyond labs ?

4. Labs ?

5. Human-centered innovation
Free area for user-tests
A set of tools, methods ans protocols
Cross-disciplinarity
Cross-sectorial and system thinking

7. LEVEL : URBAN / COUNTY / REGIONAL /
NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL

8. SCOPE : GENERALIST /
THEMATIC

9. SCOPE : GENERALIST /
THEMATIC

10. DEDICATED SPACE / NO SPACE

11. LABS… WITHOUT NAMING IT LABS

12. Developers and creators :
creating solutions to solve
specific challenges
Enablers : engaging citizens,
non-profits and businesses to find
new ideas
Educators : Transforming the
processes, skills and culture of
government
Architects : Achieving wider
policy and systems change
FOUR MAIN ROLES

13. Why labs ?

14. A CRISIS OF INSTITUTIONS

15. POLICY MAKING PROCESS = OBSOLETE

16. GROWING PSYCHOSOCIAL RISKS
WITHIN GOVERNMENTS

17. THE RISING OF DIGITAL, ’MAKERS’
AND DIY CULTURES

18. A MOVEMENT TOWARDS RE-INTERNALIZATION
OF KNOWLEDGE (LIKE WITH WATER SUPPLY ?)

19. « By essence, public institutions are something
that must be scanned, explored, researched.
Hardly their form is established, then it needs to
be redone. » John Dewey
THE EXPERIMENTATION ESSENCE
OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

20. Inside labs

21. 3 immersive weeks in a school
in order to get a better
understanding of food practices
#ethnography #empathy
EXAMPLES
OF ACTIVITY (1)

22. EXAMPLES
OF ACTIVITY (2)

23. Using co-design methods to
visualize what could be improved in
the urban vegetation process process
#blueprint #servicedesign
EXAMPLES
OF ACTIVITY (2)

24. Prototyping and testing with
users a concept of « self-
library » cabin, open 24/24
#user-test #rapidprototyping
EXAMPLES
OF ACTIVITY (3)

25. The French Employment Lab
incubates start-ups in order
to create new services.
#start-up #openinnovation
EXAMPLES
OF ACTIVITY (4)

26. Documenting and opening
the whole project and share it
#blogging #photos #videos
#opensource #commons
EXAMPLES
OF ACTIVITY (5)

27. project manager
change manager
service designer
sociologist
ethnographer
participatory architect
participatory urbanist
social innovator
engineer
videast
digital specialist
data specialist
community manager
comedian
web journalist
…
CROSS-DISCIPLINARITY

28. pragmatism (John Dewey)
empowerment (Saul Alinsky)
serendipity (Horace Walpole)
abductive reasoning (Charles Sanders Peirce)
system thinking (Alexandre Bogdanov)
evidence-based policy (David M. Eddy)
THEORICAL MINDSETS

29. How labs ?

30. LABS AS AN ON-
GOING PROCESS
vision & values ?
governance ?
business model ?
management ?
team ?
methods & protocols ?
partnership ?
assessment ?

31. LABS BUILDERS
& FACILITATORS

32. LABS BUILDERS
& FACILITATORS

33. Beyond labs ?

34. FIRST STEP
FIRST TEST
IMPACT
INSTITUTIONNALIZATION
ECOSYSTEM
COMMUNITY
GUIDANCE
PROBLEM FRAMING
OVERTAKING
DOCUMENTING
INNOVATION TRAJECTORY :
SEEKING FOR THE CRITICAL PATH

35. THE FUTURE OF LABS ?
Lab as a new vehicle for transformation ?
(before the next one !)
No need for labs anymore ?
More impactful and systemic ?
More ressources for labs ?
… ?

36. Thank you for your attention !
svincent@la27eregion.fr
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