TY - JOUR T1 - Urban Living Labs and Transformative Changes: A qualitative study of the triadic relationship between financing, stakeholder roles, and the outcomes of Urban Living Labs in terms of impact creation in the city of Groningen, the Netherlands JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2021 A1 - Stefano Blezer A1 - Nurhan Abujidi KW - Impact Creation KW - Transformative Changes KW - Trust Building KW - urban living labs AB - Urban Living Labs (ULLs) have become a popular instrument for finding solutions to urban challenges faced by cities. While ULLs have achieved a certain level of normalisation in cities, a general lack of understanding remains regarding the character and purpose of the ULL phenomenon still leaves many challenges open to be overcome. One challenge involves the potential impact of ULLs in contributing to meaningful transformative changes. By combining a literature review with a comparative case study of three ULLs in the city of Groningen, the Netherlands, this study confirms and adds to current theoretical positions taken about how to overcome the challenge in terms of holding a shared ideology and reviewing the concepts of agency and power. It also shows that opportunity comes along with trust-building among stakeholders in ULLs, as a way to enhance their potential in practise. Consequently, this study calls for further research regarding underexplored theories and models of ULLs, power dynamics in ULLs, and into their self-sustaining character, both in terms of social adoption and ownership, as well as financial sustainability. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 11 UR - timreview.ca/article/1466 IS - 9/10 U1 - Zuyd University of Applied Sciences Stefano Blezer is a lecturer and researcher in Spatial Planning at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences in the Built Environment Academy and Smart Urban Redesign research centre. He holds a BSc. in Spatial Planning at the eponymous institute (2017) and a MSc. in Socio-Spatial Planning from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (2020). His BSc. is about Urban Living Labs and its applicability in the context of Limburg, and his MSc. thesis is about Urban Living Labs and their potential to shape systemic changes in doing urban development. His expertise and interest mainly revolve around the relationship between the physical built environment and human behaviour, as well as related themes such as spatial justice, spatial inequalities, or co-creation governance and collaboration modes. Blezer also advocates an established role for spatial planning in achieving the UN SDGs. U2 - Zuyd University of Applied Sciences Nurhan Abujidi is Associate Professor at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, where she is the Head of the Smart Urban Redesign research centre. She leads urban renewal projects in multiple neighbourhoods and cities in Limburg, including Maastricht, Heerlen, and Kerkrade. Abujidi holds a doctor’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Regional Planning from KU Leuven (Belgium). At this university, she also completed a post-graduate master’s degree in Architecture of Human Settlement. Abujidi was a teacher in international, post-graduate programmes at the Belgian universities KU Leuven and Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB). At VUB, she was the academic coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus UII-module Urban Studies. As a vice-dean and senior researcher at the School of Architecture of San Jorge University (Zaragoza), Abujidi led multiple research projects on urban development. Her expertise includes urban renewal, public space revitalisation, and tactical urbanism. ER -